- Funding Programme
- Year
- 2022
Support to the Renovation Wave
The project aims to support Malta in developing and applying new methodologies for planning, designing, and monitoring the renovation of public buildings.
Context
Malta has to significantly increase its renovation rate of public buildings. At the same time public building renovation is held back by multiple barriers, including long payback times, lack of knowledge regarding the appropriate type of renovation for different building categories, as well as considerable use of protected historic buildings, often in conservation areas. In addition, renovation of public buildings can be held back, among other things by long procurement timelines, fragmented responsibilities across administrations and insufficient energy use data.
Support delivered
The project delivered the following support measures:
- Developing a local catalogue for energy performance upgrades for public buildings. This includes also measures for historic buildings.
- Developing guidelines and methodologies to ensure the best return on investment when selecting upgrades from the catalogue. This includes advice on the calibration of software to select the optimal designs and a methodology for cost benefit and lifecycle analysis.
- Developing supporting documents, guidelines and strategies to facilitate the energy renovation of public buildings. This includes templates to be used in public procurement procedures, manuals for testing, commissioning and verification, and a project management strategy to optimise scheduling.
- Building organizational capacity for research and planning. This includes support for data selection and use, the organisation of the internal planning and capacity building process, and awareness raising events.
Results achieved
The technical support aims at operationalising Malta's ambition for public building renovation under the long-term renovation strategy. It also aims to build the capacity of the responsible department to facilitate an increase in the public building renovation rate. Over the medium term, and by addressing also issues linked to heritage buildings, positive spill-over effects to the renovation of other type of buildings can be expected.
Given the exemplary role of public buildings, this could lead to spill-over effects and synergies with the wider renovation ecosystem in Malta and increased investments in building renovation.
More about the project
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