Unlocking neighbourhood and district-Level integrated approaches for building renovation focus on comprehensive, holistic strategies for an entire area instead of individual buildings to achieve greater energy efficiency, resilience, and cost-effectiveness.
Renovation projects that are carried out as part of more integrated approaches, which are scaled up at district or neighbourhood level, can in fact be a trigger of positive externalities that can go way beyond energy savings, reduced CO2, such as for instance, more social inclusion and cohesion across communities and increased liveability in climate resilient and inclusive cities.
Driven by the principles of sustainability, aesthetics and inclusiveness, there are several positive examples of projects across the European Union embodying integrated district and neighbourhood renovation approaches.
This is an opportunity Member States cannot afford to miss. In the context of the National Building Renovation Plans (NBRPs) and the implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), this briefing wants to propose a series of key recommendations, or elements for replication, which are based upon the analysis of six examples of district or neighbourhood integrated programmes, which have already been carried out in different parts of EU Member States.
