BARRIO
Fostering deep Building Renovation by Aggregating demand, developing business models and Rolling out Industrialized prefabricated solutions for a decarbonized building stock
BARRIO's Challenge
The main challenge of the BARRIO project is to overcome the fragmentation that exists in both the demand and supply of building energy renovation. The dispersion of property owners, the lack of coordination among various stakeholders, and difficulties in accessing efficient industrialized solutions make large-scale energy renovation complex and costly.
Additionally, the absence of economies of scale and the lack of solid business models for risk-sharing exacerbate the challenge, making the transition to a decarbonized building stock a slow and uneven process. This challenge is particularly urgent in light of the European Union’s goal to drastically reduce emissions by 2030.
BARRIO's Intervention
To address this challenge, BARRIO proposes an intervention strategy based on several key pillars. The first involves aggregating energy renovation demand at the neighborhood level, an approach that overcomes the fragmentation of individual owners and maximizes economies of scale.
Instead of isolated and scattered renovations, BARRIO coordinates interventions in building clusters, facilitating efficient planning and execution. This process includes the creation of an Aggregated Prefabricated Industrialized Plan (APP), a digital tool that not only aggregates demand but also connects this demand with an industrialized and prefabricated supply of energy renovation solutions.
The Defragmentation Multidisciplinary Toolkit (DMT) integrates this APP with a system to identify the specific needs of each building and define long-term renovation roadmaps. Furthermore, the project employs a flexible methodology to design business models that allow risk-sharing among the different stakeholders involved, including property owners, service providers, and financial institutions. This ensures that the solutions implemented are scalable and replicable in other markets.
The project also includes specific training for local actors to improve the quality of interventions and promote the active participation of all stakeholders.
The BARRIO project, funded by the European Union’s LIFE program, aims to decarbonize buildings by aggregating demand at the neighborhood level, implementing prefabricated solutions for deep energy renovation, and creating a digital tool to connect the supply and demand of services.
