Market barriers tackled by the RINNOVATE project

RINNOVATE partners share the view that among principal barriers to energy-performing renovations are:

• solutions, products, tools and expertise are available, but not connected, not integrated, not easy to understand and difficult to search and have priced;
• insufficient diffusion/use of appropriate investment calculation that influence economic reasons, namely economic benefits, that play a main role in investment decisions of private owners;
• short-term orientation (not looking any further ahead than five years at most); short-sighted behaviour affects both demand and supply side, owners and suppliers and commercial operators;
• perception that the elaboration of integrated renovation specifications/terms of reference is difficult because it needs initiate cooperation processes;
• difficulty to identify, quantify and compare the impact of the range of materials, technologies and solutions that can be used to improve energy efficiency because of the great diversity of building form, size, use, location.