Abstract
According to its strategic long-term vision, Europe wants to be a climate-neutral economy by 2050. Buildings play a crucial role in this vision, and they represent a sector with low-cost opportunities for high-level CO2 reduction. The challenge the renovation of the existing building stock, which must be increased to 3%/year, more than double compared to the current 1.2%/year. In this context, the ALliance for Deep RENovation (ALDREN) project has the goal of encouraging property owners to undertake renovation of existing buildings using a clear, robust, and comparable method. This paper aims to present the ALDREN approach and the ALDREN Building Renovation Passport (BRP), giving an overview of the connections and data links to other existing databases and certification schemes. To understand the data value potential of buildings, one requires reliable and trustworthy information. The Building Renovation Passport, introduced by the recent Energy Performance Building Directive (EPBD) recast 844/2018/EU, aims to provide this information. This paper presents the experience of the ALDREN BRP for non-residential buildings as well as the development procedure for its data model and the potential that this tool could have for the construction market. The ALDREN BRP has been structured into two main parts—BuildLog and RenoMap—with a common language that facilitates communication on the one hand and, on the other, the setting of renovation targets based on lifetime, operation, and user needs.
Highlights
Over two years ago, a consortium of partners across numerous European Union (EU) countries came together to complete a proposal to Horizon 2020 research program EE-11-2016-2017, titled ALliance for Deep RENovation, in buildings implementing the European Common Voluntary Certification Scheme, as a back-bone for the whole deep renovation process
This paper presents the experience of the ALliance for Deep RENovation (ALDREN) Building Renovation Passport (BRP) for non-residential buildings as well as the development procedure for its data model and the potential that this tool could have for the construction market
The ALDREN BRP has been structured into two main parts—BuildLog and RenoMap—with a common language that facilitates communication on the one hand and, on the other, the setting of renovation targets based on lifetime, operation, and user needs
Summary
A consortium of partners across numerous EU countries came together to complete a proposal to Horizon 2020 research program EE-11-2016-2017, titled ALliance for Deep RENovation, in buildings implementing the European Common Voluntary Certification Scheme, as a back-bone for the whole deep renovation process. An overview of a selection of existing databases has been conducted with the aim to individuate their main characteristics and to understand which of them can be used, linked, and connected to support the ALDREN methodology for the BRP definition and the assessment of energy interventions in existing non-residential buildings. More comprehensive analyses on all the above listed databases have been presented in each respective subsection
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