📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 01/11/2021
End Date: 31/12/2028
Total Eligible Budget: 16,226,711 €
EU Contribution: 9,500,000 €
Project Location: Estonia (EE)
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
Existing European building stock has a large potential for energy performance improvement, especially in colder regions.
The strategy A Renovation Wave for Europe – Greening our buildings, creating jobs, improving lives" was published in 2020 and aims to double the rate of building renovation in the EU, from 1% to at least 2% annually, by the end of this decade.
In Estonia, even faster rates of renovation are required because of inefficient construction quality and energy performance of old buildings and due to a large renovation deficit. Estonia’s long-term building renovation strategy (LTRS) was developed according to the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive with the aim of providing a strategical plan for transforming all the existing buildings into highly energy efficient and low carbon buildings by 2050
OBJECTIVES
The long-term objective of the LIFE IP BUILDEST project is to increase the ambition, and pave the way for reducing CO2 emissions, of Estonia’s existing building stock by up to 100% (~4.5 million tCO2/yr) by 2050. In the short-term, the project aims to pursue the 2030 goal of reducing the CO2 emissions by 32% (~1.4 million tCO2/yr). Achieving the objectives will help to mitigate the effect that energy performance of buildings has on climate change.
The project team will demonstrate technical solutions and pilot renovations in 25 buildings, with the pilot renovations in the cities of Tartu (for multi-storey apartment buildings and detached houses), Rakvere (detached houses and historic buildings), and Võru (historic wooden buildings).
