ReLIFE

The ReLIFE project aims to enhance data accessibility within the EU building sector by developing an open-source, user-friendly platform. This platform will serve as a comprehensive repository and knowledge hub, providing economic, financial, forecasting, and technical data on the EU building stock. By facilitating cross-sectorial sharing of data among stakeholders—including banks, energy service companies (ESCOs), and building owners—the project seeks to reduce information asymmetry. Ultimately, the goal is to increase deep renovation rates within the residential sector, contributing to a more sustainable and efficient future for EU buildings.

The ReLIFE project’s open-source platform will serve as a central hub for essential building information across Europe. This easy-to-use tool will offer a range of services, from financial guidance to energy forecasting and technical insights, supporting collaboration between banks, energy service companies, building and homeowners, and other stakeholders. Through its network of four associated partners, the ReLIFE project will also roll out practical case studies to test and refine its solutions. 


The ReLIFE project will:

 
– Address EU building emissions by focusing on energy-efficient renovations across the EU building stock. 
– Offer a centralised open-source ReLIFE platform for accessible data and tailored services, empowering informed decision-making in deep renovations. 
– Provide a set of key services addressed to target stakeholders among forecasting, technical and financial guidance. 


The ReLIFE approach aims to simplify access to building data for stakeholders (both professionals and non-professionals), helping them utilize data driven services for deep renovation projects implementation.

Services that will be provided by the project:

1) Financial Service
The platform offers a flexible and easy-to-use finance and investment simulation environment, including specific climatic and socio-economic conditions (e.g. local cost specificities). Having very simple basic information as input data (e.g. floor area, age of the building, number of windows, etc.), the service provides useful financial information to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of deep retrofit investments. The service provides economic assessment to estimate the number of initial investments, the ROI, the PBT, the annual monetary savings from reduced energy bills, etc. The service also identifies and links available financial schemes and instruments in the specific nation, region, or location to the respective technologies, helping stakeholders to maximize the impact of their renovation projects. By providing handy and location-specific financial information, this service will be largely useful to all stakeholders (professionals and non-professionals).

2) Forecasting Service
This service offers a powerful forecasting calculation module that enables policymakers and PAs staff to explore future renovation rates and help them design relevant decarbonization policies for 2030 and 2050. By analysing data on past renovation initiatives and considering evolving regulatory frameworks, the service helps support future renovation policies that align with climate and energy targets. Overall, the Service quantifies the GHG emissions saved due to successful deep renovation initiatives, their contribution to the overall decarbonization of the EU building sector, and related health benefits. The outputs of this Service will offer valuable insights for decision-makers to evaluate the design of potential financial schemes and instruments.

3) Technical Service
With the state-of-the-art knowledge and classification of available technologies (e.g. heat pumps, PV, insulation materials, biomass boilers, etc.), this Service offers a technical knowledge base to technicians (e.g. energy consultants, engineers, architects, etc.) on the state-of-the-art technological options for deep building renovation. It classifies various solutions leading deep building refurbishment (according to energy generation, insulation, etc.) and visualizes and describes its main features (EE, utilization options, different configurations, etc.). This Service will be utilized especially for the roll-out of EPCs and BRPs, also thanks to dynamic data/information provision.




Contact: Project coordinator, Simon Pezzutto, [email protected]

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