Shelter to map the structure of project teams employed by Social Housing Organisations in energy upgrading of existing housing schemes
The Shelter project aims to map the structure of project teams that are employed by Social Housing Organisations in the energy upgrading of existing housing schemes. The intention is to identify the optimum team structure in the expectation that using the optimum team will lead to significant improvements in the final energy performance of the projects to which it is applied. This is akin to investigating models of integrated project delivery.
Improving the coordination of professionals in energy renovation
In the first year of this 36-month project a complete analysis of the current energy renovation process in 6 Social Housing Organisations from:
- Italy
- Belgium
- United Kingdom
- Bulgaria
- France
was conducted and is now published. Furthermore, a range of
precise alternatives inspired by the integrated project delivery
approach has been disseminated to the Social Housing Organisations,
in order to improve the coordination of professionals in energy
renovation.
ACE to provide support and advice
In the year to come, these alternatives will be implemented in
real pilot case studies. In this context, the Architects’
Council of Europe (ACE) will be asked to assist in identifying the
professionals’ coordination models for energy renovation. The
main role of the ACE in the Shelter project is to provide support
and advice to the Social Housing Organisations in the coordination
of energy renovations of the social housing building stock.
Within this task and in order to develop a social housing energy
renovation network of professionals and stakeholders, the ACE
wishes to mobilise architects which are active in energy renovation
and are willing to participate and share their knowledge and
experience in a so called Build Up Community, which has already
been set up for this purpose.