Sector
Public building renovation, energy performance, social housing upgrades and construction decarbonisation.
Pipeline
What European cities are preparing in this sector, with stage, investment and procurement window.
Podgorica Montenegro
DEMOThe municipality pays energy bills for around two hundred buildings from one budget line, with no per-building consumption record.
Tampere Finland
DEMOA large share of the municipal housing stock was built before current insulation standards and is expensive to heat.
Cluj-Napoca Romania
DEMOThe district heating network loses a large share of its heat in transmission and depends almost entirely on natural gas.
Ghent Belgium
DEMOConstruction and demolition material leaves the city for processing and returns as new product, at avoidable cost and emissions.
Porto Portugal
DEMOSchool buildings are uncomfortably hot in summer and expensive to heat in winter, and the estate has never been assessed as a whole.
Funding
Calls whose scope covers this sector, with the ESCA assessment of what each instrument suits.
Consortium instrument for cities that already have a delivery commitment and want to de-risk an integrated package rather than fund a single technology.
Large-ticket instrument with a demanding emissions avoidance calculation. Suited to network-scale heat decarbonisation, not to building-by-building work.
Intelligence
How the first tranche of a deep renovation programme was delivered with tenants in place, and what it cost to keep that constraint.
Expertise
Consulting engineer
Denmark
Network decarbonisation, low-temperature conversion and large heat pump integration.
Working languages English, Danish, German
Network
Listed by category. Membership is a relationship with ESCA and implies no endorsement of any organisation.
Romania
Member city. Leads the district heating decarbonisation working group.
Finland
Member city. Renovation programme documented as an ESCA case study.
Germany
District heating engineering and large heat pump systems. Industry member.
Buildings & Renovation
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