In 2017 local governments in the province of South Holland are providing funding for 15 homeowner associations to refurbish their apartment buildings to Net Zero Energy. This funding is available to associations consisting of 25 dwellings or more and will be used to provide comprehensive advice and support for transitioning their homes. These 15 projects will also serve as a learning platform, as participants share their experiences and create a knowledge base for future refurbishments. Read More
The European project "E = 0" launched in mid-2016, is already well under way in Luxembourg under the dual leadership of Fonds du Logement, the housing association responsible for social housing development and Neobuild, the cluster of technological innovation in sustainable construction. Read More
At Moat we’re proud of our commitment to environmental sustainability and performance, which is why we were so keen to get involved with the Energiesprong concept. Read More
The Vilogia and ICF Habitat housing associations are the first in France to retrofit 10 demonstrator houses to Net Zero Energy (NZE). Before starting, Vilogia spent one year working with team members from both Energiesprong Netherlands and Energiesprong France – GreenFlex to retransmit and adapt the revolutionary Dutch retrofitting model to the French market. The first demonstrator houses will be realised in December 2017 in northern France. Read More
The E=0 project keeps progressing in France with the call for tender for demonstrator houses soon approaching. Before preparing for this next step, French solution providers wished to visit examples of renovated homes in the Netherlands and exchange with their Dutch counterpart to better meet the Energiesprong design brief. Read More
Several pilots will be developed to demonstrate the feasibility of such an endeavor in different North-West Europe countries with a transnational collaboration. Read More
Monday. Looking at shortlisted properties of Moat Housing and Affinity Sutton, our two housing providers in the e=0 project to deliver Energiesprong demonstrators in the UK. Each of them have used a set of filters to identify about 60 homes that would be ripe for a deep performance assured retrofit: they are ugly, non-descript boxes with low energy performance and below average level of repairs – and a solution provider can get to them easily as they are in one of the many sub-urban settlements that are so typical for England (that is if you put up with the dreaded speed humps and forget about the tiny little cul-de-sacs with small turning circles at the end…;-). So, how do we get them down to 10 that will be contracted? Learning from the Dutch: have a look at the residents – they will be making or breaking Energiesprong’s success in its early days. And it’s their energy bills that will be determining how much we can invest alongside the aggregated repairs & maintenance cost. Read More
At the end of September, the E=0 project kick-started with a two-day meeting for partners. This kick-off event offered plenty of time for the partners to get to know each other and begin work on the first challenges ahead. Read More
