What is it about?
Eastern Europe today is confronted with an unavoidable problem – the multifamily apartment building stock is deteriorating, while apartment owners do not have sufficient access to resources, be they organizational, financial, technical, or legal. In addition, destructive myths have grown about the Soviet era buildings despite their continued resilience or the ex-GDR experience in the 90s with the same buildings. Further, without resources, decision making in residential apartments is seen as a major obstacle and used as an explanation why renovation has not taken place. The data presented and analyzed comes from Latvia.
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Why is it important?
This paper summarizes the first findings of a comprehensive and in-depth study of apartment buildings, their owners and the processes relating to renovation, combining social and environmental engineering research methods. It seeks to understand how owners of multi-family buildings in Eastern Europe understand their buildings and then to answer two questions – how to motivate owners to renovate their homes and increase energy efficiency and what business models should be used to implement economically viable and high quality projects.
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These concerns are important, not only in the context of a potential housing crisis, but also because the renovation of the apartment buildings is an effective solution to significantly reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This approach has a proven potential to effectively finance the long term renovation of these buildings.
Mr Lars T Soeftestad
Supras Ltd.
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This page is a summary of: Climate Change and Buildings Energy Efficiency – the Key Role of Residents, Environmental and Climate Technologies, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/rtuect-2016-0004.
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