Background data to STRUCTURAL FUNDS for HOUSING

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Background data to STRUCTURAL FUNDS for HOUSING

• EuroACE

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Saving potential and investments in the new
member states
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CO2 saving potential in the new Member States
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Cost saving potential in the new Member States
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Residential high rise dwellings are about 30 of
the building stock ( gt 215.000 buildings) in the
new member states.

• Improvement of this share of the building stock
  contributes to
• structural improvement of living conditions
• reducing the dependency of energy import
• improvement of economic and social stability

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Energy Efficiency in the Refurbishment of
High-Rise Residential Buildings
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Background

• Project funded by IEA and EuroACE, carried out by
  the Association for the Conservation of Energy
  (ACE) in London
• One in six dwellings in Europe 36 million are
  in high-rise buildings up to 50 of the
  population live in them in some countries
• 19 out of 27 housing ministries respondent to the
  VROM survey regard poor energy efficiency as a
  moderate to major problem
• This project investigates energy efficiency as
  part of general refurbishment

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Assessing the Situation
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Base regions
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Measures considered in the model

• Improvements to the building fabric
• Wall insulation
• Roof insulation
• Floor insulation
• Window replacement
• Improvements to the heating system
• Thermostatic radiator valves and balancing valves
• Boiler replacements

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Measures advocated by the project

• Improvements to the building fabric
• External solar shading
• Effect of insulation on reducing cooling demand
• Improvements to the heating system
• Combined heat and power and biomass heating
• Reducing cooling demand
• Passive solar design, ventilation, reducing
  internal heat loads, increasing building albedo
• Other measures
• Lighting
• Ventilation strategies (natural, heat recovery)

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Results Energy savings
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Results Investment cost
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Results Cost comparison
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Results Cost-effectiveness
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Results CO2 mitigation cost
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Results CO2 abatement

• Large energy-saving and CO2 reduction potential
• Highest in CEE countries
• Average of 28 energy-saving potential
• Reduction of final energy demand by 1.5
• Reduction of emissions by 35 MtCO2

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Wider benefits of investment

• In assessing cost effectiveness, the wider
  benefits for
• Energy supply-side and energy security
• Avoided investment in energy generation and
  distribution
• Increased system reliability
• Resource conservation
• Enhanced price stability
• Employment
• Resident comfort and wellbeing
• must also be taken into account

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Finding a Way Forward
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Opportunities andBarriers

• Opportunities for and barriers to energy
  efficiency investment
• Political and institutional
• Financial and economic
• Legal
• Capacity and social

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Opportunities andBarriers I

• Political and institutional
• Separation/integration of government departmental
  responsibilities
• Institutional capacity, ability to deliver
  policies
• Tenure of high-rise (private/public?)
• Public-private partnerships
• Political acceptability of high-rise buildings
• Political acceptability of refurbishment policies

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Opportunities andBarriers II

• Financial and economic
• Liberalisation of energy markets and the price of
  energy
• GDP and housing investment / opportunity cost
• Interest rates
• Wide range and experience of innovative financial
  incentive schemes for refurbishment
• Linking financial instruments with EPBD and ESD

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Opportunities andBarriers III

• Legal
• Powerful legislative drivers in the EPBD and
  eventually the Energy Services Directive, and
  synergetic effects of the two
• Legal frameworks for condominiums and tenements
• Planning law
• Credibility of building regulations enforcement

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Opportunities andBarriers IV

• Capacity and social
• Negative perception of high-rise living
• Wider community development and regeneration
• Energy use culture
• Over/under-heating and take-back effect
• Provision and suitability of energy advice
• Involvement of stakeholders in the refurbishment
  process

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Case studies

• Six case studies have been prepared, highlighting
  practical approaches

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Case studies I

• Glastonbury House, London, United Kingdom
• Strong resident involvement robust consultation
  and virtual reality tool
• Use of renewables CHP and wind turbine

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Case studies II

• Raise the Roof, St Petersburg, Russia
• Public private partnership
• Added extra storey with aim of financing
  refurbishment
• Large energy savings

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Case studies III

• Ceuta Norte, Lisbon, Portugal
• New-build, with many lessons for refurbishment
• Pilot project funded by EU SUNH programme
• Innovative use of cooling demand reduction
  measures

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Case studies IV

• Ozolciema, Riga, Latvia
• Project piloting Latvian refurbishment programme,
  with international cooperation
• Comprehensive package of measures
• Large energy savings

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Case studies V

• Block One, Radomir, Bulgaria
• PHARE-funded pilot, public private partnership
• Resident consultation at design stage, and
  resident satisfaction survey afterwards
• 9 year payback period

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Case studies VI

• Csombor Utca, Kobanya, Hungary
• Strong local government involvement attracted EU
  funding
• Innovative approach to minimising resident
  financial burden
• Substantial energy savings

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Conclusions and Recommendations

• Conclusions
• Large energy and CO2 savings potential
• Energy saving most cost-effective in EU15 (for
  now)
• CO2 abatement most cost-effective in EU10 and AS3

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Conclusions and Recommendations

• Recommendations
• EU10 and AS3 require and deserve support
  European funds to accelerate sustainable
  refurbishment are needed
• Consistent methodologies for quantifying wider
  benefits of energy efficiency improvement
• Refer to body of experience to identify most
  innovative forms of financing
• Synchronise objectives of authorities involved in
  housing and energy
• EU10/AS3 need to prepare for energy market
  liberalisation (individual metering)
• Fill gaps in condominium legislation
• Warm climate countries must address cooling
  demand as well
• Make residents involvement a requirement for
  refurbishment grants
• Link all actions to implementation of the
  Directives

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And finally

• Full report, case studies and base region fact
  sheets are available on the EuroACE website
• www.euroace.org/highrise/

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