Projects

A learning network is a cooperation between two or more partners who commit themselves to exchange kwowledge and best practices in order to achieve better results for their own projects. For BE REEL! there will be such a learning network for the two Belgian regions Flanders and Wallonia, and for EU member states.

A learning network is a cooperation between two or more partners who commit themselves to exchange kwowledge and best practices in order to achieve better results for their own projects. For BE REEL! there will be such a learning network for the two Belgian regions Flanders and Wallonia, and for EU member states.

The renovation advice tool offers the Flemish house owner tailor-made advice on the renovation needs of the separate parts of his house. This tool is an important, not to mention crucial part of the housing passport.

The Quickscan tool will make it easier for the Walloon user to quickly assess the potential energy savings and housing quality without the intervenience of a professional. The Quickscan tool will consultable via https://energie.wallonie.be BE REEL! allows the Walloon Region to collect data and to develop the content and operation of the tool.    

This project will review of the EAP audit process and transform it into a complete decision-making and support tool: “The roadmap of my energy retrofit” .  The aim is to present an energy renovation scenario aimed at achieving NZEB; establish a road map setting out the order of priority for actions; provide technical guidance for the resulting works; provide support to property owners in following the roadmap; certify that the expected improvement in performance has been achieved. (ref.: building renovation strategy of the Walloon region).

The Walloon Housing Passport is the identity card of a housing unit in the Walloon Region: a dynamic digital record in which you can look up and maintain your property data. This record will be interactive and scalable, containing information about the administrative and technical details of the house.

In this action, business cases for a standardised and understandable renovation advice will be developed, using the renovation advice tool. The common idea in these business cases will be the concept of a one-stop-shop where people can get a reliable and affordable made-to-measure renovation advice, that will be integrated in the housing passport. 

To optimize the housing passport as a central instrument, we need to test the use of it in different contexts in real time renovation projects. We will examine how the information in the housing passport, including the renovation advice, does actually facilitate and help people to start and follow up the deep renovation. This action is process oriented, and complementary to Action A4.

The action consists of launching a pilot call for proposals within the municipalities having signed the Covenant of Majors and possessing a SEAP (Sustainable Energy Action Plan) or a SECAP (Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan) .

The objective of this action will be to make the citizens of Picardy Wallonia aware of the energy saving potential of their property and to encourage them to renovate while becoming "energy" ambassador citizens among their peers. The aim will be to renovate 900 properties (180/year).    

On top of pilot actions aiming at a proof of concept for the newly developed policy instruments and tools in both regions, we will work out a set of innovative business models made to measure for different segments of the housing market. Especially the following segments of the housing market where existing instruments don’t lead to extra renovation activities, need specific instruments: the private rental market (especially single houses and flats, 20% of the total housing market) neighbourhood level big apartment buildings with several co-owners (over 150.000)    

The Flemish cities of Antwerp and Mechelen organize various demonstration projects on collective renovation. Specifically, it concerns the following projects: Antwerp: renovation of 500 houses to low-energy buildings Antwerp: renovation of 250 residences to nearly-zero-energy buildings Mechelen: renovation of 75 houses to 30kWh / m2 Mechelen: renovation of 50 houses to 50kWh / m2    

The Flemish cities Antwerp and Ghent will organize several demonstration projects for deep renovation towards low energy apartment blocks. These specific projects are: Antwerp: large apartments Ghent: small apartments    

The Flemish cities Ghent and Mechelen will organize several demonstration projects on collective renewable energy via solar panels, namely: collective solar panels for all Ghent neighbourhood residents. collective renewable energy for vulnerable families in Mechelen  - in collaboration with social housing companies    

The city of Ghent will make an inventory of conditions for the project implementation geothermal energy in a city context, after analyzing 5 existing shallow geothermal installations. Based on the results of the analysis they – the city of Ghent -  will work out a strategy for how, in which situations and under which conditions geothermal can be stimulated in a city context.    

In January 2015 the city of Ghent launched the subsidy ‘sustainable neighbourhoods’ as a temporary subsidy in combination with all kinds of support we offer. It is a new approach to stimulate bottom-up initiatives for climate. Guidance and financial support are essential to increase the quality and success rate of these projects. In recent years, we have established that bottom-up climate projects can often have a major impact through their strength and local embedding.    

The city of Ghent has a strongly expanded offering of free renovation advice and renovation support. The Power Plant is the one-stop-shop where all inhabitants of Ghent can turn to with questions about energy-efficient renovation. In addition to this individual approach, the City of Ghent wants to use this action to develop an additional range of collective renovation.

For vulnerable families who have limited financial means to invest in the renovation of their home, the cities of Antwerp and Mechelen want to launch an innovative project based on the Flemish Energy Loan. They want to be able to guarantee that renovation for these families becomes budget neutral and therefore has no impact on the family budget. The monthly savings on the energy bill will then on average have to be higher than the monthly financial cost of the energy loan.    

This action consists in setting up an innovative financing system via third-party investment, to improve the energy performance of housing, including social housing in La Louvière. The objective of this action is to improve the energy performance of at least 150 houses and 50 apartments per year, for a total of 800 dwellings (600 houses and 200 apartments) over 5 years throughout La Louvière.  

Vulnerable groups have difficulties to make investments in their home because of financial issues, other priorities or lack of environmental awareness. Financial measures/grants existing in Flanders to support investments in energy efficiency measures foresee extra support for vulnerable groups. Within BE REEL! The city of Antwerp will start from the existing free energy scans for vulnerable groups, expand them and combine them smart in co-creation with local market suppliers and local non-governmental organizations.