Training for Rebuilding Europe
Retrofitting buildings, training and improved skills,
and financing energy efficiency in buildings.
10 December 2010 – 10 December 2012
Contract: IEE/09/741SI2.576295
website: http://www.trainrebuild.eu
Key Action & Benefits
• Key Action: Training property owners and local
authorities on the process for retrofitting
buildings.
• Project Benefits: Upgrading capacity and
knowledge transfer to public and private
building owners with the aim to improve the
energy performance of the existing EU
building stock.
Objectives
• To design a comprehensive strategy to
generate a change in thinking of building
owners about the link between energy
efficiency and its value related to building
ownership.
• To encourage retrofitting in a wide range of
residential buildings, spanning from individual
to multi-family houses and from private to
social housing.
Target Groups
• Staff of national
associations of property
owners and individual
property owners
• Officials from local
authorities responsible
for the retrofit of
buildings in some
Covenant of Mayors
(CoM) cities
The project promotes an integrated approach based on
training by technicians and professionals whose daily
work has an impact on the design, selection, approval,
installation, operation, maintenance, sales and marketing
of sustainable building.
Project Phases
TRAINREBUILD consists of three phases:
Project Expected Results
• Result 1: Energy Solutions
– Assistance regarding intelligent energy solutions provided to 3
million property owners through the service package until the
year 2020.
– Out of 3 million property owners outreached in the EU27,
approximately the 2% of them will retrofit their properties in
the year after the service package has been transferred to them.
• Result 2: Training
– Information about training kit disseminated to 1250 local
authorities (through the 125 local authorities trained and the
Covenant of Mayors Secretariat).
– Approximately 25 tenders to be issued by 25 local authorities
procuring sustainable buildings.
Project Expected Results
• Result 3: Market Growth and Financing
– Market growth of energy efficient buildings and renewable
energy installations in buildings
– Approximately 10% increase in private banks and financial
institutions financing for building retrofitting in the priority
countries benchmarked from 2009 levels to end of project
• Result 4: Dissemination
– 15 professional European associations, each with a target
audience of approximately 10.000 professionals in the whole
EU, to distribute the recommendations of the Training Forum.
– One new joint retrofit initiative/project in each of the priority
country of the project to be initiated by some of the Training
Forum participants.
Training Toolkits and Service Package
• Two Toolkits have been produced (one for property
owners associations and one for local authorities) for
the trainings in the priority countries.
• One final service package will be designed for easy
customization within the context of local conditions to
ensure the widest possible deployment to individual
property owners throughout Europe.
• The long-term purpose is to create a significant
European dimension to foster market transformation in
the building sector and develop a scale effect to reach
the EU 2020 goals.
First Lesson Learnt
Capacity building and trainings are major
components that should be addressed to the
demand side of the building chain (associations
of property owners and local authorities as
owners) and not only to the supply side (buildings
professionals). The demand for retrofit should
reach a tipping point through the establishing a
large-scale pan European retrofit programme
supported by a stable regulatory framework. This
is the only way for industry to realise the market
development potential and for financiers to
support the process
Second Lesson Learnt
Crisis in trust for regulations, technologies,
finance, building professionals is widespread
among property owners. Training is needed for
property owners associations and local
authorities to communicate the retrofit value to
individual owners and create a scale effect in the
retrofit process. The focus of successful
communication campaigns to property owners
should not only be on energy saving but also on
improved comfort, indoor air quality and wellbeing.
Third Lesson Learnt
Property owners require independent and
trusted guidance from energy advisors
specialised in the building sector. Local
authorities and national property owners
associations should be directly involved in
training and employing accredited experts to
provide a comprehensive service package made
of information on the most efficient technologies,
available funding instruments, fiscal measures,
lists of certified building professionals etc to
property owners at local level.
Project Partners
TRAINREBUILD is a
partnership of a highly
representative group of
networks and organizations
addressing the whole value
chain of the building sector.
Target Countries
• Experts of property owners
associations in
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UK (RICS)
FR (ARENE)
IT (BIELLA)
DE, ES, GR (UIPI)
BE (ABSA)
• Local authorities (officials)
in charge with the retrofit of
buildings in some Covenant
of Mayors (CoM) cities in:
– HU, BG, RO, PT (REC)
– FR (ARENE).