SHELTERIN’ EU Quarterly newsletter

N° 1 February 2011

In this edition

Editorial............................ News and Agenda...............

SWL project objectives........

BHA project objectives.........

Dynacité project objectives...

LogiRep project objectives....

Arte Genoa project objectives

BCHG project objectives.......

Project outcomes................

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• Editorial - All about SHELTER Welcome to the Shelter project, a project targeting coordination of professionals as a means to enable an improved energy renovation of Social Housings building stock. Shelter project started in June 2010 for a 3-years period.

Shelter project gathers together 6 social housing organisations from 5 european countries representing 170 000 dwellings. These organizations are coping with the need to develop long term gains in costs and time for the energy renovation of their housing stock, in order to transform the current pilot renovations into a large scale process.

To adress the situation, the project will propose new coordination models based on the integrated project delivery approach. This approach can be defi ned as a conceptual process, implying a holistic and interdisciplinary vision, and based on collaboration and communication all across the renovation process.

The University of Delft, with the help of ACE, EBC and Cecodhas Housing Europe, 3 european professional organisations representing architects, builders and social housing, will defi ne the models and mentor the six social housing organisations in its operational application.

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The sole responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the authors. It does not necessarily refl ect the opinion of the European Union. The European Commission is not respon-sible for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.

Project informationwww.shelterproject-iee.eu

Coordination contact:Pierre Touyatouya.p@logirep.fr

LogiRep127, rue Gambetta92150 SURESNES FRANCE

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• Agenda: Upcoming events 1st-3rd March: BCHG participates to EcoBuild- Sustainable design, construction and the built environment, London. http://www.ecobuild.co.uk/index.html

11-15 April: EU sustainable Energy Weekhttp://www.eusew.eu/

20-23 June: TU Delft participates to NISBE 2011 - Management and innovation for a Sustainable Built Environment, Amsterdam. TU Delft will present Shelter project during the event.http://misbe2011.nl/

• Shelter News 18 January: EBC presented the Shelter project at IEE InfoDay in Brussels

April 2011: Shelter report on Social Housing Organisations energy renovation processes available on the website.

15-16 June: 3rd Steering Committee will take place in Delft, hosted by TU Delft.

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Building energy renovation

Improving energy efficiency

Identification of best practice models on cost-effective retrofit

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• Belgium, SWL: performance and profitability renovation

• Bulgaria, BHA: launching a large scale energy renovation of condominium housing in ownership

• France, Dynacité: implementing the integrated design

In collaboration with a network of 68 Public Housing societies, the Société Wallone du Logement is the largest operator of the so-cial housing policy in the Walloon Region. Following the Kyoto Protocol and the objective of reducing GHG emissions, and the implementation of the EPBD, the Walloon Region has recently imposed legal mechanisms about energy efficiency. In other words, if the reduction of energy consumption during construction or renovation was already an issue in relation to the energy crisis, it is now a legal imposition. The energy performance of buildings represents also a considerable financial stake for all parties related directly or indirectly to the housing sector. With a rental stock of more than 104,000 dwellings, SWL’s inheritage consists in 60% of buildings which are over 30 years and

require substantial renovations to meet the new requirements imposed by the EPBD. Just like any other real estate operator, SWL should therefore combine two factors: performance and profitability renovation, not to mention that all these works have a single objective to provide decent, efficient and sustainable dwellings to social tenants. Through the Shelter project, SWL aims to develop a cooperation model in energy efficiency. A site located in Tubize (renovation of housing, the last and current phase of implementation includes energy renovation) will supply this model which will meet the technical, economic and human requirements, with the ultimate goal of reducing the energy bill for social tenants for whom the energy costs represent a significant part of their budget.

The high energy consumption and deterio-rated status of condominium housing are among the gravest common problems of the housing estates in all Eastern European big cities. In Bulgaria the situation is even more complicated due to the extremely high share of the homeownership and the lack of any traditional practice and legis-lation concerning the maintenance and management of the buildings combined with a disparity between the status of the apartment owners and the income level of the residents.Activities in energy efficient renovation of existing condominium buildings after the adoption of the National Housing Renova-tion Program in 2004 were limited in scale and in achieved results. The fact that there are obstacles preventing the implementa-

tion of a large scale sustainable renova-tion became evident. Among the main problems is the lack of proper analysis of the complexity of the housing renovation process and the lack of feasible models adapted to Bulgarian specifics. SHELTER project is focused on the elabo-ration of a proper scale of condominium renovation activities in Bulgaria by analy-zing the existing renovation activities com-bined with discovering the bottlenecks for the process and by creating the working models applicable to future large scale renovation activities. SHELTER project will contribute by attuning the legal and ins-titutional requirements of national and EU programmes and instruments, and by strengthening the cooperation between the stakeholders involved.

Nowadays, the energy performance of the dwelling has a global impact on en-vironmental (reducing energy consump-tion and gas emission), social (reducing fuel poverty and improving the quality of life), and economic (providing new jobs linked to energy performance) aspects. As Dynacité placed sustainable develop-ment stakes amongst its priorities, it consi-ders energy performance, and especially energy renovation, as one of the most important objectives for the next years. Nowadays, Dynacité renovates 2% of its existing housing stock every year (about 500 dwellings/year).Within the SHELTER project, Dynacité aims to involve in a more cooperative way all the stakeholders from the design and all along the renovation process, to the main-

tenance of the dwellings. This model will allow to implement time and cost-effec-tive renovations, and guaranteeing the energy performance after renovation.Dynacité will implement the cooperation model for the renovation of the building si-tuated at Nurieux-Volognat (see picture). Inspired by the integrated design, it aims to guarantee a high level of energy per-formance after renovation, during a five years contract, to ensure a reduction in energy charges for the tenants. The call for tenders is expected to be launched in October 2011.If the implemented model meets the aims with the expected targets and savings, Dy-nacité will reproduce it in the future for the energy renovation of its housing stock.

Operational application : Three storey building (14 dwellings) situated at Nurieux-Volognat (Ain)

Dynacité is the public social housing organisation for the Ain

region, and manages 23 000 dwellings.

www.dynacité.fr

BHA is a national organisation providing advice to

condominium ownerswww.bha-bg.org

Zaharna Fabrika, Sofia: an experience for energy efficient renovation of condominium housing

SWL collaborates with a network of 68 Public Housing societies, 104 000 dwellings

www.swl.be

Quartier des Bruyères, Tubize, SWL operational operation in Shelter project

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• France, LogiRep: a cost-effective coordination model to launch large-scale energy renovations

Interwar solid wall properties, Moat Farm Estate, West Midlands, UK

• Italy, Arte Genoa: reducing log term upkeep costs

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• UK, BCHG: energy renovation in semi-detached properties

Following European Directives, France has implemented, through the Grenelle 2 laws, important energy performance re-quirements for existing buildings. In accor-dance with these measures, Logirep has performed an exhaustive diagnosis of the energy performance of its housing stock, identifying 20% of buildings with very poor energy behavior. This means renovating part of the 60-70s housing stock, which is historically the main stock of Logirep. Ener-gy renovation of these buildings is a priority for Logirep in the coming years.To achieve this goal, Logirep will set up a cost-effective model of coordination, to gain time within the renovation process, decrease renovation costs, and guarantee

the final quality of the works together with the energy performance of the building after renovation. Shelter project comes as an answer to this need.Logirep has launched the first Energy Per-formance Contract for social housing in France for the energy renovation of 230 dwellings of 1960 in Vitry, Paris region. This first experience of integrated project de-livery includes high energy performance objectives and 4 years of maintenance for the heating system. We wish to benefit from the lessons learned with this experience, by using it to define an improved coordination model, adapted to our needs.

ARTE Genoa, through the comparison with the other partners of the project, is going to identify the weak points of re-newal buildings process, following the aim of the energy efficiency.The pilot project concerns the rehabilita-tion of a social dwelling building included in a 1900 poor residential neighbourhood, which is involved in a large scale urban re-habilitation national program.The company aim is to carry out a project and to realize the rehabilitation of dwel-lings reducing the energy operating costs : heating and hot water expenses.The achievement of this aim allows the te-nants to reduce the rising costs of heating rates (more than the rent), and to reduce ARTE long term upkeep costs.

The Company is going to involve all rehabi-litation stakeholders in this process to eva-luate all system weak points and guaran-tee good final results.The building should be ready by Decem-ber 2013.In our area, regione Liguria, there is a high level awareness about the renewal and improvement energy performance of buil-ding by local authorities, such as Regione Liguria (Local Government), which has been traslated into laws and regulations to be followed in the planning stages.

Black Country Housing Group has worked in energy renovation in the social housing sector for ten years and have made great headway in understanding how to apply alternative energy technologies. The work we have done has been pilot projects and demonstrators, there are still a number of challenges to rolling out energy renovations to all our stock. Our ability to deliver energy-saving retrofits continues to be hampered by the premium costs for this type of work. Despite the fact that some materials are now widely available, costs have actually risen with increasing sales (such as in the case of solar hot water heating which can now cost up to £5,000, compared to just £1,200 ten years ago). There is also a lack of skills. Many in the social housing

supply chain lack the skills, knowledge and experience for low-carbon refurbishments and consequently over-price to protect themselves from unforeseen costs. We intend to apply the co-ordination model resulting from the SHELTER research to an energy renovation at our Moat Farm Estate in Tipton. The dwellings are inter-war semi-detached properties typical of the solid-walled housing stock common in the UK. This is known as hard-to-treat housing. The SHELTER project will help us investigate these issues and develop a set of procurement tools that can cut costs through increased knowledge across the supply chain.

Vitry, Paris region: an experience for integrated project delivery

Black Country Housing Group manages 1800 dwellings in the

surroundings of Birminghamwww.bcha.co.uk

Logirep manages 32 000 dwellings in Paris Region.

www.logirep.fr

Arte Genoa manages 12 000 dwellings

www.artegenova.org

Operational application: rehabilitation of a 1930’s building 84 public housing units. Genoa, Molassana, Via Sertoli 9

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• Project outcomes

The University of Delft analizes current energy renovation processes in Social Housing OrganisationsThe project analysis of the involved Social Housing Organisations aims to define a picture of the current energy renovation processes of social housing in Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy and United Kingdom and to propose alternatives process models. The data is being collected through questionnaires, site visits and interviews of the different actors involved in the renovation processes: SHO, (sub)contractors, architects, advisers, municipality, ESCO’, etc.

In general the analysis offers an overview of the characteristics of the SHO and the construction market, procurement rules, energy regulationsand financial instruments that they are subject to. Specifically the analysis presents the different actors involved in the energy renovation process, what are their tasks along the different processphases and what are the relations between

those actors. The analysis concludes with an initial proposal of possible alternatives to the current process model. The alternatives range from small modifications to the current practices to proposals for a complete change of the coordination model.

Conditions for alternative coordination models are studiedIn parallel, EBC, ACE and CECODHAS Housing Europe are discussing and working with TU Delft to define the conditions for alternative energy renovation and coordination models.

The future proposed model for each SHO in the different countries will cover from inception phase to operation phase. It will have an integrated project delivery approach and propose alternatives to avoid predominant positions of generalist construction companies in integrated project delivery teams. The model will be shaped by the limitations of public tendering rules.

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First Energy Performance Contract for Social Housing in France

LogiRep has signed the first energy performance contract (CPE) for social housing in France for designing, modernising and extending a social housing development in Vitry-sur-Seine (southern suburbs of Paris) containing 231 flats, and for maintenance of the energy equipment system for four years. The project will guarantee 40% reduction in real energy consumption and will cut greenhouse gas emissions by a factor of 4.

Worth 9 million euros (4 million euros of energy renovation works and 5 million euros of internal renovation of the accommodation), the project qualifies for optimised funding through State financial mechanisms to aid social housing, specifically the decree concerning the share-out of energy savings. Works will be launched early in 2011, and are scheduled to last 24 months.

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