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Our Projects

We lead and take part in several European projects to translate our policy objectives into action.

We are working on the new frontiers in our sector, envisioning the future-proofed neighbourhoods which can cater for elderly, youth, integration of services, different lifestyles e.g. working from home, sharing economy, circular economy and of course with the decentralised Zero energy neighbourhoods ZEN with an adapted energy system fitted to these changes. Click on 'Read more' to check out our Concluded Projects.

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ARV

ARV

ARV is a Horizon 2020 EU-funded project part of the EU Green Deal goal to build and renovate in an energy and resource efficient way. The project aims to demonstrate and validate attractive, resilient, and affordable solutions for of Climate Positive Circular Communities (CPCC) that will significantly speed up the deep energy renovations and the deployment of energy and climate measures in the construction and energy industries. To achieve this, the ARV project will employ a novel concept relying on 6 demonstration urban regeneration projects representing different European climates and contexts with high ambitions in environmental, social and economic sustainability. The focus is on renovation of social housing and public buildings to demonstrate more than 50 innovations in more than 150,00 m2 of buildings.
The 4-year project started in January 2022 and gathers 35 partners from seven European countries are involved. 

Build Up Speed

BuildUPspeed wants to accelerate the volume and depth of deep renovation of the EU building stock, supporting the EU Renovation Wave, by introducing and implementing a Market Activation Platform, specifically for the promotion and implementation of industrialized renovation solutions. BuildUPspeed builds upon and capitalizes the results and outcomes from relevant and related Horizon projects on deep renovation, specifically projects and actions on prefabrication, BIM adaption for renovation, and industry 4.0. Moreover, BuildUPspeed will build upon the legacy, the approach and the results of several chapters of the ‘Energiesprong’ approach. Housing Europe will support business modelling and further market uptake of BuildUPspeed tools and services via the adoption of a large variety of distribution channels. Domofrance Logement Social based in Bordeaux and Instituto Valenciano de la Edificacion are the representation of the sector within the project. 

drOp

drOp

In the industrial town Ermua, near Bilbao in the Basque Country, the Santa Ana neighbourhood with post-war privately-owned multifamily buildings is officially starting the work to become a lighthouse renovated district. Digitally enabled social district renovation processes for age-friendly environments driving social innovation and local economic development, or for short – drOp is Housing Europe's new project. This is more than an EU-funded initiative because it is very closely linked to the European Affordable Housing Constorium, SHAPE-EU which is demonstrating what do we mean by sustainable housing for social impact. 

GigaRegioFactory

The Life Giga Regio Factory project is based on the need for a change of scale in order to be able to target 10% of the market by 2030 and 1 million homes renovated to a guaranteed zero-energy level in an industrialised way in Europe. The project will develop an open-source tool for the qualification of housing in order to better qualify them and developing smarter aggregation strategy to launch large-scale collective industrial retrofits at zero-energy level. It will also coach companies that integrate and assemble industrial solutions to enable them to develop 100% industrialised offers. Within the project, we will work closely with EST metropole habitat and the Association des Organismes HLM Auvergne Rhone Alpes. 

RE-SKIN

RE-SKIN

Housing Europe continues the mission of our recently-completed HEART project - to ride the Renovation Wave by developing and testing an integrated and multifunctional system for energy retrofit of buildings. We will be doing this through the Horizon project RE-SKIN which officially kicked off the activities in January in Milan.

The work will be organised in two main subsystems, roof and façade, combined with the building’s HVAC system. And while within the HEART project we had our Italian member of member, ACER, this time, we test innovative renovation methods with two social housing demo sites, one owned by Vilogia in Northern France, and a second owned by VIPASA in Asturias in Spain. 

SUPERSHINE

SUPERSHINE

SUPERSHINE started in mid-November in Rome with the ambition to implement innovative renovation of social and affordable housing in three demonstrator lighthouse districts in Italy, Denmark, and Latvia as well providing blueprints for follow-up districts. These are among the first lighthouse districts receiving EU funding as part of the EU Affordable Housing Initiative that will be supported by the European Affordable Housing Consortium, SHAPE-EU. Particular attention will be paid to the renovation of social housing, to help households who struggle to pay their energy bills.