Name of organisation: Instituto Balear de la Vivienda (IBAVI)

Year of finalization: 2005

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 56

Country: Spain

Short Description: The building has been designed with the criteria of passive solar architecture, having into account, orientation, the interior of dwellings, type of materials used on the facades, the size and layout in windows or the small ledges for shade.

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Name of organisation: ARCA - Union Sociale pour l'Habitat Champagne Ardenne

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 0

Country: France

Short Description: In may 2009, in the context of the revision procedure of the Article 7 of the ERDF Regulation, the European Union allowed to use 4% of the national ERDF amounts to improve energy efficiency in social housing.
In France, this has been integrated to the ...

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Name of organisation: A.R.T.E. Genova - Azienda Regionale Territoriale per l'Edilizia della Provincia di Genova

Year of finalization: 2013

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 52

Country: Italy

Short Description: This 1930s building is composed of 84 public housing units.
The aim of the project is to provide the building with 52 dwellings of various sizes, cellars for all single units and 2 commercial premises, along with the roof renovation with eco-friendly ...

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Name of organisation: A.R.T.E. Genova - Azienda Regionale Territoriale per l'Edilizia della Provincia di Genova

Year of finalization: 2000

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 8

Country: Italy

Short Description: Since the '90s, A.R.T.E. felt the issue of energy saving also in the historical centre. The project was the first pilot site for building restoration in the historical centre of Genoa, even if the solutions for renewal in this particular part of the ...

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Name of organisation: BCHG - Black Country Housing Group

Year of finalization: 2003

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 4

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: Four individual dwellings as part of a single demonstrator project called "Changing Rooms that don’t cost the Earth" (located in North Street, Smethwick. B67 7DA, Birch Street, West Smethwick. B68 9RU, Emily Street, West Bromwich. B70 8LH and Antrobus ...

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Name of organisation: BCHG - Black Country Housing Group

Year of finalization: 2011

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 6

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: GREEN4 will inform and assist social landlords and their supply chain to maximise demand, for low carbon retrofit measures, by presenting examples of the technologies and their application.

The project will retrofit three pairs of semi-detached, ...

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Name of organisation: BCHG - Black Country Housing Group

Year of finalization: 2007

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 12

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: A programme of energy renovation applied to individually owned dwellings in terraces on one street. Funded by the local authority and undertaken by Black Country Housing Group’s in-house home improvement agency “Care and Repair” and the local authority ...

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Name of organisation: BCHG - Black Country Housing Group

Year of finalization: 2008

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 9

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: These were all dwellings bought for improvement and resale to improve the energy efficiency of local housing stock, demonstrate what can be achieved and encourage others to do the same work to their own properties (social rental with aim of final private ...

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Name of organisation: BCHG - Black Country Housing Group

Year of finalization: 2002

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 22

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: 22 individual homes owned by Dudley Council were in sound structural condition but only provided living accommodation that was very cold, damp and expensive to live in.

It was decided to increase the budget for modernisation works, already planned ...

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Name of organisation: BHA - The Bulgarian Housing Association

Year of finalization: 1938

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 12

Country: Bulgaria

Short Description: The project includes energy efficient renovation of building envelope and common parts as well as installation of RES (solar collectors).

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Name of organisation: BHA - The Bulgarian Housing Association

Year of finalization: 1940

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 10

Country: Bulgaria

Short Description: The project includes energy efficient renovation of building envelope and common parts as well as installation of RES (solar collectors).

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Name of organisation: BHA - The Bulgarian Housing Association

Year of finalization: 1954

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 18

Country: Bulgaria

Short Description: The project includes energy efficient renovation of building envelope and common parts as well as installation of RES (solar collectors).

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Name of organisation: BHA - The Bulgarian Housing Association

Year of finalization: 1950

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 39

Country: Bulgaria

Short Description: High energy consumption and the deteriorated state of condominium housing are urgent problems of the housing estates in all Eastern European big cities. In Bulgaria, the situation is even more complicated by the extremely high share of homeownership ...

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Name of organisation: ATC Biella

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 0

Country: Italy

Short Description: Biella Retrofitting One is promoted by ATC Biella in collaboration with Federcasa and Aeneas. The upgrading energy covers all social housing, located in Biella, owned for the bulk of the Agency for Territorial House (ATC) and partly by some residual owners ...

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Name of organisation: ALER di Brescia

Year of finalization: 2009

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 52

Country: Italy

Short Description: The technology used is that of dry construction with the highest levels of thermal insulation (class A CasaClima certification). All traditional power supply sources have been eliminated to achieve energy self-sufficiency from renewable sources. The energy ...

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Name of organisation: KopparStaden AB

Year of finalization: 2010

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 1058

Country: Sweden

Short Description: KopparStaden’s Bojsenburg residential area comprises 1058 residential apartments. Interest in a transfer to heating other than direct-acting electricity increased in pace with increased environmental awareness and rising electricity prices.

An inquiry ...

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Name of organisation: Coop Casa Brescia

Year of finalization: 2003

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 20

Country: Italy

Short Description: This Coop Casa sc House project in Botticino Mattina was completed in 2003. This building marks the beginning of the path of Coop Casa towards the construction of buildings with low energy consumption.
The ultimate goal is to develop solutions to be ...

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Name of organisation: HSB - The Swedish Cooperative Housing Association

Year of finalization: 2011

Type of project: other

Country: Sweden

Short Description:

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Name of organisation: Alingsåshem AB

Year of finalization: 2013

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 300

Country: Sweden

Short Description: The project ‘Brogården’ aims to create a sustainable area of housing that promotes social integration. A major component in this is that older people should be able to remain living in the area and not be compelled to move to special housing. Other ...

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Name of organisation: Foment de la Rehabilitació Urbana de Manresa, SA (FORUM, S.A.)

Year of finalization: 2012

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 108

Country: Spain

Short Description: Creation of public spaces of quality: restructuring of 3,585 m2 of squares and streets, adapting them to the new requirements for the use and mobility and modernizing service networks.

Improvement of the conditions of mobility: prioritization of pedestrian ...

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Name of organisation: ARRA - Association Régionale Rhône-Alpes des Organismes de Logement Social

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 0

Country: France

Short Description: In may 2009, in the context of the revision procedure of the Article 7 of the ERDF Regulation, the European Union allowed to use 4% of the national ERDF amounts to improve energy efficiency in social housing.
In France, this has been integrated to the ...

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Name of organisation: Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y Suelo de Madrid, S.A. (EMVS)

Year of finalization: 2007

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 88

Country: Spain

Short Description: The building consists of a single block of 98 meters in length by 16,40 of depth and with a height of 19,20 meters. Containing 88 homes distributed in five plants plus ground floor.

The construction occupies the 38,31 percent of the plot, the remaining ...

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Name of organisation: Plus Dane Group

Year of finalization: 2013

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 397

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: Plus dane group is a major partner in the Castlefields Regeneration Masterplan. The estate was originally developed as a ‘new town’ between 1968 and 1972. The design included concrete deck access flats and aerial walkways. Popular in its early days, ...

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Name of organisation: HSB - The Swedish Cooperative Housing Association

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 143

Country: Sweden

Short Description: BRF Toppsockret has under a period of ten years worked goal oriented towards lowering the energy use in an cost efficient way. This has resulted in thermal insulation, ventilation measures and lighting measures. Along with the work to lower energy use ...

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Name of organisation: TCHG - Town & Country Housing Group

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 1

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: Overview The construction of the house will achieve Level 5 of the Code for Sustainable Homes. Lessons learned will feed into other Code compliant schemes in our development programme.

It is a demonstration house but it has a relatively traditional ...

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Name of organisation: Association Régionale pour l'Habitat Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 0

Country: France

Short Description: In may 2009, in the context of the revision procedure of the Article 7 of the ERDF Regulation, the European Union allowed to use 4% of the national ERDF amounts to improve energy efficiency in social housing.
In France, this has been integrated to the ...

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Name of organisation: Coop Casa Brescia

Year of finalization: 2008

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 369

Country: Italy

Short Description: San Polino district is situated on the Est side few kilometers from the center of Brescia City. It is a sustainable district built up with the objective of environmental sustainability and high living comfort.

Consorzio ECO 15 is the operator who built ...

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Name of organisation: Centro Studi La Famiglia soc. coop.

Year of finalization: 2006

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 120

Country: Italy

Short Description: Situated in the West part of the City, this recent housing area development (2006) is integrated part of a large social housing neighborhood with more than 3600 dwellings, fully developed by cooperatives providers in 1954. Based on a public call aimed ...

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Name of organisation: Coop Casa Brescia

Year of finalization: 2009

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 0

Country: Italy

Short Description: Since 2009, Coop Casa has moved into the new head office wich is situated in Corso Bazoli, 41, in the middle of the new urban sustainable district named Sanpolino.

Coop Casa’s new head office is placed in a multi plan building (named edificio E) ...

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Name of organisation: Association Régionale pour l'Habitat Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: other

Country: France

Short Description: The project aims to develop a common framework for social housing providers to address the existing fund opportunities by means of:

- an analysis on the existing housing stock and the creation of operative guidelines for replication;
- assistance ...

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Name of organisation: SA-Doloise du Jura

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project:

Number of units/dwellings: 122

Country: France

Short Description: Condition before the work:

The condition of the building was the following:

Loss of the building "Isolation"
- Need for energy flux: 83 000 or 180 W / m²
- After isolation: 28 000 or 60 W / m²

Heating:
- Requirements state: 166 kilowatts ...

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Name of organisation: Dynacité

Year of finalization: 2013

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 14

Country: France

Short Description: Dynacité aims to involve in a more cooperative way the all stakeholders from the design and all along the renovation process, to the maintenance of the dwellings. This cooperation model will allow implementing time and cost-effective renovations, and ...

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Name of organisation: AllboHus Fastighets AB

Year of finalization: 2009

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 24

Country: Sweden

Short Description: AllboHus had a couple of centrally located 4-storey buildings, constructed in the early 1960s, which were in need of renovation, primarily replacement of main pipes, ducts, drains and electricity cables, etc.

The company wanted to create a sustainable ...

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Name of organisation: L'Union Sociale pour l'Habitat Midi Pyrénées

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: other

Country: France

Short Description: In may 2009, in the context of the revision procedure of the Article 7 of the ERDF Regulation, the European Union allowed to use 4% of the national ERDF amounts to improve energy efficiency in social housing.
In France, this has been integrated to the ...

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Name of organisation: AROSHA - Association Régionale des Organismes Sociaux pour l'Habitat

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 0

Country: France

Short Description: In may 2009, in the context of the revision procedure of the Article 7 of the ERDF Regulation, the European Union allowed to use 4% of the national ERDF amounts to improve energy efficiency in social housing.
In France, this has been integrated to the ...

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Name of organisation: KBAB - Karlstads Bostads AB

Year of finalization: 2009

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 630

Country: Sweden

Short Description: The project "Orrholmen Façade Renovation" had the objective of removing comfort problems such as uneven temperatures, draughts from windows and balcony partitions in the apartments, at the same time as reducing energy loss in the area. This objective ...

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Name of organisation:

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 0

Country: France

Short Description: The leader project LOGIREP provides 230 housing rehabilitation with AO design, production and guaranteed maintenance for 4 years. The aims established by the project are the 40%reduction of the actual energy consumption and the achievement of BBC Label: ...

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Name of organisation: Kompetenzzentrum Großsiedlungen e.V.

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 0

Country: Germany

Short Description: In July 1990, the GDR municipal housing administrations (KWV: kommunale Wohnungsverwaltungen) were converted into municipal housing companies and the stock of “nationally owned” (“volkseigen”) housing that the former KWVs had administered was ...

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Name of organisation: Radian Group

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 20

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: The project relates to the refurbishment of a neighbourhood of 20 semi-detached 3 bedroom homes which had come to the end of their useful life. The homes are constructed from a non-traditional prefabricated concrete system (PRC) known as REEMA. These ...

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Name of organisation: Radian Group

Year of finalization: 2007

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 6

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: The project, undertaken with the support of the Energy Savings Trust, was to demonstrate how a minimum 60% reduction in household CO2 emission post refurbishment can be achieved by employing a systematic package of energy efficiency measures to a small ...

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Name of organisation: Union of Czech and Moravian Housing Co-operatives, SČMBD

Year of finalization: 2012

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 0

Country: Czech Republic

Short Description: Using ETS (AAU in Czech Republic) funds for building renovation

Basic Programme Structure
The programme is divided into three basic subsidised areas:
A. Energy savings in heating
A.1. Complex insulation
A.2. Partial thermal insulation

B. Construction ...

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Name of organisation: SYHA - South Yorkshire Housing Association

Year of finalization: 2002

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 23

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: Henley Rise is SYHA’s model for future development. As an organisation we could see that future development proposals would need to change for us to provide fully sustainable, stable communities where people want to live. In particular we were concerned ...

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Name of organisation: Logement Français

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 231

Country: France

Short Description: Following an energy audit, le Logement Français committed to refurbish L’Îlots de Bourgogne, a socially deprived area, with high level of energy performance without any rent increase:

- The project has a "Cerqual" certification and a HPE label ...

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Name of organisation: ICF Group

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: other

Country: France

Short Description: Main objective:
Deployment, test and evaluation of integrated solutions based on ICT to improve energy savings and energy awareness consumption in Social housing with a focus on renovation.

The pilot will:
- demonstrate solutions to improve energy ...

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Name of organisation: A.R.T.E. Genova - Azienda Regionale Territoriale per l'Edilizia della Provincia di Genova

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: other

Country: Italy

Short Description: Main objective:
Deployment, test and evaluation of integrated solutions based on ICT to improve energy savings and energy awareness consumption in Social housing with a focus on renovation.

The pilot will:
- allow an improvement of the follow-up ...

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Name of organisation:

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 48

Country: Poland

Short Description: Main objective:
Deployment, test and evaluation of integrated solutions based on ICT to improve energy savings and energy awareness consumption in Social housing with a focus on renovation. The pilot will:
- demonstrate solutions to improve energy ...

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Name of organisation: Sociedad Municipal Zaragoza Vivienda

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 80

Country: Spain

Short Description: Main objective:
Deployment, test and evaluation of integrated solutions based on ICT to improve energy savings and energy awareness consumption in new development of Social housing..

The pilot will:
- allow an improvement of the follow-up and exploitation ...

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Name of organisation: Zonnige Kempen

Year of finalization: 2007

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 11

Country: Belgium

Short Description: Klimaat op Maat (Customised Climate) is an adapted version of the project Klimaatwijken (Climate Neighbourhoods) where cities encourage occupants to have a different look at the use of energy. This approach was not directly relevant to social housing ...

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Name of organisation: Ophis Puy-de-Dôme

Year of finalization: 2011

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 20

Country: France

Short Description: 20 homes designed by architect Alexis Magnier that will allow tenants to save 28% on their hot water and heating bills.

Timber frame homes labelized BBC (low consumption building) built by Ophis: an exemplary operation, filmed continuously (www.ophis.fr), ...

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Name of organisation: Bostads AB Poseidon

Year of finalization: 2009

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 16

Country: Sweden

Short Description: Bostads AB Poseidon has a large number of apartment buildings of similar type which were built between 1967 and 1971. The buildings are in great need of renovation. To ensure that the renovation is carried out in the best way possible the company initiated ...

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Name of organisation: LogiRep

Year of finalization: 2013

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 231

Country: France

Short Description: Energy renovation and urban renewal of 3 apartment blocks from 1966. First energy performance contract (CPE) for social housing in France for designing, modernising and extending a social housing development in Vitry-sur-Seine (southern suburbs of Paris) ...

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Name of organisation: ACER Reggio Emilia

Year of finalization: 2009

Type of project: other

Country: Italy

Short Description: The project intent to raise the attention on the energy saving potential in Emilia Romagna Region, on its foreseen impact on the economy and therefore to the need of refurbish of the housing stock and promote relative measures. It aims to boost the greening ...

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Name of organisation: AUPREMA

Year of finalization: 2010

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 19

Country: Italy

Short Description: The project is situated in a mixed residential urban location in a semi-central area of the municipality of Monza with a medium density housing.
The building type provides apartments of two or three rooms with habitable attics and basement, which houses ...

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Name of organisation: Metropolitan Housing Trust

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 62

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: Metropolitan Housing Trust London (MHT) developed a programme for refurbishing harder to treat Victorian street properties to a standard that goes well beyond the Government’s Decent Homes standard, with a whole house approach that involves decanting ...

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Name of organisation: Sustainable Energy Academy

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 53

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: Old Home SuperHome is an award winning project which helps homeowners to open their homes to the public to educate them in energy efficiency measures and inspire them to go on to undertake an energy efficient refurbishment themselves.

The homes are ...

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Name of organisation: Orbit Group

Year of finalization: 2011

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 23

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: Sampson Close, Coventry, is the largest social housing scheme in the UK to target Passivhaus Certification. Orbit Heart of England is developing a 23-home low energy scheme being built on a brown field site in Coventry. It includes a mix of terraced housing ...

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Name of organisation: ATC Torino - Agenzia Territoriale per la Casa, Torino

Year of finalization: 2005

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 622

Country: Italy

Short Description: This district was built at the beginning of the 20th century. It is subject to construction constraints, particularly on the decorative facades. The project deals with the energy refurbishment and urban regeneration of this district both for housing buildings ...

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Name of organisation: Eksta Bostads AB

Year of finalization: 2008

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 1

Country: Sweden

Short Description: The greatest difference in relation to an ordinary pre-school building construction is that Eksta, together with those who are to run the operation, jointly and at an early stage in the building process applied an overall approach in order to halve energy ...

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Name of organisation: Stichting Stadswonen

Year of finalization: 2010

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 494

Country: Netherlands

Short Description: Situated at the “Kop van Zuid” in the city of Rotterdam, Cité is built for (international) students, graduates and young entrepreneurs. The green building is endowed with a geothermal heat pump, solar water heaters and a complete ventilation system. ...

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Name of organisation:

Year of finalization: 1997

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 21

Country: Bulgaria

Short Description: The objectives of this pilot project were to show the possibilities to save energy in resdiential buildings through the implementation of different energy saving measures and to assess the viability of different technologies used in building refurbishment. ...

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Name of organisation: Sociedad Municipal Zaragoza Vivienda

Year of finalization: 2010

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 28

Country: Spain

Short Description: The intervention consists in:

IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY:
- Limitation of the energy demand: Placement of a double-skin to the outside with continuous isolation. Placement of double carpentry on the outer ply, waterproofing and insulation ...

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Name of organisation: Gentoo Group Limited

Year of finalization: 2009

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 129

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: The Retrofit Reality project seeks to learn lessons for the sector through intensive research into the best solutions for existing stock in terms of cost, quality, availability, installation, future maintenance and user compatibility. Gentoo Group has ...

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Name of organisation: Saha tee 2 - Apartment Association

Year of finalization: 2008

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 60

Country: Estonia

Short Description: The renovation was started in 2003. The aim was to achieve energy saving and retrofit the building. The complex renovation was financed by apartment owners and a bank loan and was carried out in 2003- 2008.

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Name of organisation: Gewestelijke maatschappij voor Volkshuisvesting

Year of finalization: 2007

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 61

Country: Belgium

Short Description: The project consists in the renovation of the "Sterrenveld" building from 89 to 61 apartments and the transformation of the old central heating plant in a polyvalent space for meeting, social activities and demonstration and offices.
An adjacent old ...

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Name of organisation: Sütiste 45 - Apartment Association

Year of finalization: 2007

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 72

Country: Estonia

Short Description: The renovation was started in 2000 with the basic refurbishment measures. The aim was to achieve energy saving and retrofit the building. The complex renovation was financed by apartment owners and bank loan and carried out in 2002- 2007.

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Name of organisation: Turu 12A - Apartment Association

Year of finalization: 2008

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 60

Country: Estonia

Short Description: The renovation was started in 1997. The aim was to achieve an energy saving of 35% and retrofit the building. Preparations and planning took 5 years. The complex renovation was financed by apartment owners and a bank loan.

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Name of organisation: Ophis Puy-de-Dôme

Year of finalization: 2011

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 24

Country: France

Short Description: Retrofitting of Social Housing
Local Development Contract
Ongoing operations: Résidence ILN à Chamalières Ophis Puy de Dôme.

Client: Ophis Puy de Dôme
Architect: Atelier Max
Construction date: 1968
Duration: 12 months
Delivery date: end ...

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Name of organisation: ERAP Ancona

Year of finalization: 2010

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 83

Country: Italy

Short Description: The aim of this project is an urban regeneration that wants to improve a relationship between tenants. The district “Villa Aosta” was built after the earthquake in 1930 and at the moment it shows a general state of degradation both in terms of environment ...

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Name of organisation: Zonnige Kempen

Year of finalization: 2005

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 13

Country: Belgium

Short Description: The project is a contribution to the upgrading of the town centre of Zoerle-Parwijs.
Heavy traffic, delapidated and unoccupied houses made the centre no longer comfortable to live in. When the municipality of Westerlo decided to get the traffic out ...

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Name of organisation: NIHE - The Northern Ireland Housing Executive

Year of finalization: 2008

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: Aims and Objectives:
- To reduce fuel poverty for Housing Executive tenants;
- To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in Housing Executive dwellings;
- To maximise the number of solar panels installed for the funding available;
- To publicise the use ...

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Name of organisation: FARO Architects

Year of finalization: 2009

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 1

Country: Netherlands

Short Description: Overview
Residence 2.0 is energy-neutral and is build according the cradle-to-cradle principles. The design of the house is based on an earlier energy efficient edition of the home. The upper floors are the same, but the unique parts, like the balcony ...

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Name of organisation: L'Union Sociale pour l'Habitat de la Region Centre

Year of finalization: 0

Type of project: other

Country: France

Short Description: In may 2009, in the context of the revision procedure of the Article 7 of the ERDF Regulation, the European Union allowed to use 4% of the national ERDF amounts to improve energy efficiency in social housing.
In France, this has been integrated to the ...

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Name of organisation: HSB - The Swedish Cooperative Housing Association

Year of finalization: 2014

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 767

Country: Sweden

Short Description: “Sustainable Hilda” is one of the first major renovation projects in one of a large number of housing estates, typical of their time, that were built in Sweden in the late 1960’s. This makes “Sustainable Hilda” unique in Sweden as well as internationally, ...

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Name of organisation: SWL - La Société Wallonne du Logement

Year of finalization: 2013

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 72

Country: Belgium

Short Description: Global renovation of 72 housing units located in two “clos” in Tubize. – Belgium (Walloon Region) and built in the 70’s, with an experimental construction system designed to promote the use of steel in construction.

The work includes a building ...

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Name of organisation: Wonen Zuidwest Friesland

Year of finalization: 2007

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 2

Country: Netherlands

Short Description: Refurbishment of the existing houses. The facade of the properties have been upgraded in combination with improving on the insulation. A type of expandable foam has been used to insulate the walls (www.thermosteen.nl) and the 60 eps plates (www.recapan.nl) ...

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Name of organisation: Wonen Wijdemeren

Year of finalization: 2010

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 58

Country: Netherlands

Short Description: Wonen Wijdemeren has started a large scale refurbishment project, to improve the living conditions of the residents. There is a focus on energy saving techniques. New techniques for ventilation are applied; Climarad for a good indoor air quality (www.climarad.nl) ...

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Name of organisation: COPES - Consorzio Organizzazione e Promozione Edilizia Sociale

Year of finalization: 2008

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 12

Country: Italy

Short Description: The project area is situated between the agricultural fields and the urban zone of Villa Fastiggi. The surrounding landscape is characterized by different context: the natural heritage and the villas of San Bartolomeo’s Hill in the north and north-east, ...

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Name of organisation: COIPES - Consorzio di Iniziative e Promozione dell’Edilizia Sociale

Year of finalization: 2008

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 67

Country: Italy

Short Description: The project area is situated far from main roads, in a green land with a canal on one site and threes and plants all around. The architectural design is thought taking into account the local rural architecture and tries to preserve the rural landscape ...

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Name of organisation: Zonnige Kempen

Year of finalization: 1999

Type of project: construction

Number of units/dwellings: 23

Country: Belgium

Short Description: This project demonstrates energy efficient design and building in Belgium and promotes energy efficient technologies in (social) housing. Prior to this project these techniques where considered to be expensive and little interest was paid to them.

The ...

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Name of organisation: Places for People

Year of finalization: 2009

Type of project: refurbishment

Number of units/dwellings: 5

Country: United Kingdom

Short Description: Our objectives were clear from the start. Our aim was to deliver 80% carbon reductions in mainstream housing using established solutions that work for the people who live in them. We wanted to:

- test the mix of measures and technologies;
- identify ...

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