3. July 2014

“POWER HOUSE nZEC! Second Symposium: CECODHAS Housing Europe meets Solar Decathlon Europe 2014” - 3 July 2014, Versailles, France

Setting the scene: the 4 challenges that cities of tomorrow and social housing providers will be facing

The first part of the POWER HOUSE nZEC! Symposium was dedicated to the role of social and affordable housing providers within the urban context. The aim of the morning session was first to assess the issues that cities of tomorrow will be facing in the near future and discuss with local authorities’ representatives and social housing experts about how to address the identified four challenges reported below:

 

• Growing population: shortage of land & urban sprawl;
• Energy: nearly-Zero Energy Buildings and fight against Fuel Poverty;
• Living together: evolution of way of life, new needs, new services and technologies;
• New governance strategies: the role of inhabitants in managing and shaping the city of tomorrow.

The contribution of the POWER HOUSE nearly-Zero TaskForces to the fair energy transition

The second part of the day focused on the work carried out by the POWER HOUSE nearly-Zero TaskForces. Four TaskForces were set up in order to make partners of the POWER HOUSE initiative work together according to the different climate zones they are operating in, also by taking into account the different type of tenure and an issue of common interest…how to finance energy retrofitting and new-build!

The CECODHAS Housing Europe meets Solar Decathlon 2014: the Affordable & Social Housing Award

To conclude the event, a Team of Jurors coordinated by CECODHAS Housing Europe, composed by high-level Social Housing Experts including Directors of both National Federations and Local Housing Companies, Technical & Building Physics Experts and Specialists in Housing Regeneration Programmes, awarded the “Affordable & Social Housing Award”.

Download here the presentations made during the Workshop.