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Resource: Best Practice Project: reconstruction of an Apartment Building in Paldiski Road, Tallinn (Estonia)

Name of organisation: EC-funded project "BEEN" reviewed by Ekyl (EE)

Type of ressource: case studies/ best practice

Addressed barriers:

  • financial
  • behavior resulting in energy wastage

Addressed users:

  • building user (social housing organization)
  • building owner
  • O&M staff
  • design team
  • public decision maker

Language:

  • English
  • Estonian

Process stage:

  • organisational strategy development
  • pre- design phase (appraisal and strategic briefing)
  • design phase (project briefing)
  • asset management

Weblink: http://www.been-online.net/

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Project Management Work with Residents Thermal Insulation Heating and Hot Water

Description

The resource is a pdf- document describing BPP in Tallinn in the framework of BEEN project. There is a separate report, containing the results of a contentment survey that was carried out among the residents „Changes in the Residential Environment: Buildings and Residents”.
Also a movie-clip was ordered to cover the completion of the project, which can be used as an introductory educational material. The clip is in English, Estonian and Russian.

As a result of the reconstruction project, the apartment building has a modern look, it is well insulated and has a heating system with individual calculation of heating expenses, where the estimated 40% energy saving can be expected. The general payment burden of the residents (housing expenses) increased, but thanks to the energy saving the residents will be able to fulfil their obligations.
Opinions of the residents concerning the results of the renovation are mainly positive, especially those concerning the aesthetics, living comfort (warm rooms) and expenses that correspond to the increase in living standards. The apartment owners appreciate highly the changes in the outer look of their building and the significantly improved heating system: adjustability according to the individual needs.
Generally positive assessments to the results of renovation allow to presume that the residential identity of the people would extend to the wider level and would form a solid basis to the formation of sustainable individual and collective housing strategies.
The first heating period after the reconstruction works is over and 40% energy efficiency was actually achieved. At the same time the room temperatures of the fifth floor steadied in comparison with the temperatures in the apartments on lower floors.

Implementation

The report is for download in BEEN project website http://www.been-online.net/fileadmin/medias/downloads/elaborated-documents/WP5-M5-Annex1-EE-Doc-No-36.pdf

 The video is available in website of KredEx
in English:  http://www.kredex.ee/11471
in Estonian and Russian: http://www.kredex.ee/11356

Information

From the Best Practice Projects we would choose only the Estonian BPP, because this  is the only BEEN BPP that actually managed to complete an exemplary renovation in the time frame of the BEEN project. Final construction measures were finished in December 2007

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