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It is not common practice to insert renovations (major and small renovations and corrective maintenance) in an energy efficiency strategy for a building. In fact usually there is not such a strategy for the majority of buildings. As a result interventions are not coordinated, do not exploit potential synergies, may collide and weaken each other. There is also a lack of understanding about measuring returns (energy returns and bill returns) that reduce owners' confidence in spending for obtaining additional energy performances.

On the other hand there are many examples, good practices, good products, experts but narrowly closed in their sectors and regions.

The project aims at creating a community of owners, experts and suppliers that work on a "renovation pathway towards NZEB".

In the end RINNOVATE will be an information cross-point to solutions, experts, documentation. It will not be a repository itself, instead it is thought as an effective switching box where experts can give their advise.

To show how it may work, free online consultancy services will be put in place to help some owners to devise their "renovation pathway towards NZEB".

The planned project duration is 30 months. Partners are - ITG (www.itg.es) Coord. - INEGA (www.inega.es) - APPLUS (www.applus.com) - INEGI (www.inegi.pt) - TRECON (www.treconsrl.it) - CNA AN (www.an.cna.it)

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RINNOVATE is about transforming every building renovation project in a profitable energy investment for all parties: owners, billpayers, builders, suppliers, consultants, present and future citizens. The overall goal of RINNOVATE is to significantly contribute to trigger a market change, making energy performance evaluation commonplace when selecting and awarding renovation projects in public and private, commercial and residential buildings. RINNOVATE works on three sides:

• demand side (owners, public and private)
• supply side (material, component and service suppliers)
• renovation consultants, designers, practitioners (in private and public sectors)

For achieving its results RINNOVATE is willing to create :

• A community of energy experts around the issue of the integration of energy measures in the specification and design of renovation works; it will give to this community place and tools (a 'competence kiosk')
• A 'competence kiosk' for owners that need commit renovation works.
• A 'competence kiosk' for suppliers operating or willing to operate in energy-performing renovation works.

It will manage to contact existing networks, projects, communities dealing with EE/RUE and RES/RET in order to promote cross linking and to identify and enroll actors that are involved/interested in building renovation energy issues. 'Make every building renovation a profitable ESCO', 'Innovation is bringing an integrated view of energy performance into renovation', 'Clever ones get the most out of energy-smart renovations', 'Lead by example, search by example' are the undebatable landmarks of the project. The overall expected outcome of RINNOVATE is to increase the number of renovation projects that incorporate energy-performance solutions complying with a professional/ethical code of conduct . The RINNOVATE project has been planned for a three years (36 months) duration with a provisional budget is in the order of EUR 2 million,

Major outputs & expected results (max.2000 char)

The overall goal of RINNOVATE is to significantly contribute to trigger a market change, making energy performance evaluation commonplace when selecting and awarding renovation projects in public and private, commercial and residential buildings. The overall expected outcome of RINNOVATE is to increase the number of renovation projects (in Galicia, ES, Marche, IT, Oporto, PT, Romania and Hungary) that incorporate energy-performance solutions since early specification/design stage, resulting in improved energy efficiency of both major and small renovations of public and private, commercial and residential buildings. Specific outputs will include:

• a living community of practice gathering several hundreds of energy professionals, consultants and practictioners with specific interest in energy-performing building renovations (both major and small-renovations, public and private);
• a web service (three competence kiosks) that brings together proven diagnostics, requirements elicitation and energy/investment calculations and procurement/specification guidance/samples along with a showcase of products, components, solutions, easy to search, reliable in terms of comparisons and integrations; the kiosks will be searchable with a search-by-example engine and online training material and courses with interfaces in EN, ES, HU, IT, PT, RO;
• 8 technical workshops (3 in Spain, 2 in Italy, 1 in RO, 1 in HU, 1 in PT) and 12 communication events (for the promotion and enrollment of actors) including one final conference;
• documentation for the dissemination of result dissemination.