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BUILDING RENOVATION PASSPORT

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DATA GATHERING PROCESSING INDIVIDUAL BUILDING ROADMAP

ON-SITE AND OFF-SITE RENOVATION ROADMAP

• General informaiton and • Rennovation in sensible order
adminstration and packages

• Building construction • Comprehensive audit
information • Long-term perspective
• Tailored to individual
• Building energy performance
(such as EPC information) BUILDING LOGBOOK

• Building operation and use • Inventory of building-related
• Smart information information

• Manage and monite real-time
energy consumption

• Linked building owners (users)
and third parties

Figure 1: Building Renovation Passport - Overview of its components (Source: BPIE)

ill-advised investments. For the EU in the Horizon 2020 project iBRoad, energy consumption and production,
to increase not just the rate but also whose aim is to show how Building executed maintenance and building
the quality of energy renovations, it Renovation Passports can support plans. The logbook could also feature
is essential to overcome the lack of deep renovation in the residential other sets of information related
reliable knowledge about what to do, sector. to each individual building, such as
how to do it and in which order. the financing options available in
THE BUILDING RENOVATION the area for renovation projects (e.g.
THE BUILDING RENOVATION PASSPORT: FEATURES green loans, incentives, tax credits)
PASSPORT AS A SOLUTION The Building Renovation Passport as well as energy bills, equipment
is designed to become a useful maintenance recommendations and
One instrument that is gaining more resource for the building owner, with insurance and property obligations.
attention is the Building Renovation features and information presented Its main feature is to make the
Passport, which outlines a custom- in an understandable manner. One process easier for the occupant, but
made long-term (up to 10 or 20 example, which also works as trigger the logbook could potentially also
years) step-by-step renovation for investments, is the possibility be used to track renovation activities
roadmap for an individual house. In for the owner to easily absorb the and send alerts to the users in case
many ways, it is an evolution of the expected benefits of the renovation of unusual consumption patterns or
EPC, and builds on information from works. suspicions of technical flaws.
energy audits and dialogues with the
occupants. Different variations of the The renovation roadmap can be THE BUILDING RENOVATION
idea have recently been implemented combined with a digital repository PASSPORT IN PRACTICE
in Flanders (Belgium), Germany and of building-related information (a The most innovative example of
France, and studied for replication logbook) on aspects such as the a logbook is the Woningpas in

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