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38 Spring 2019 European Energy Innovation

COMMUNICATION

STUNNING Renovation Hub

EU platform for energy-efficient refurbishment technologies and business models

Today’s measured rate of refurbishment is much lower
than what should be observed to remain in line with
Europe’s 2050 ambitions. There is a need to accelerate
the market uptake and large-scale implementation of
energy efficient refurbishment solutions and increase
the renovation level to 3% per year until 2030. The poor
market acceptance of innovative refurbishment solutions
is in most cases attributable to the lack of adequate
business models. Innovative business models have already
been demonstrated, but their replication is very slow:
how can this replication be supported?

The EU H2020 project STUNNING (SusTainable bUsiNess
models for the deep reNovation of buIldiNGs) has the goal
to promote successful and innovative building renovation
packages and business models around a virtual and
collaborative knowledge sharing platform: the STUNNING
Renovation Hub, so as to accelerate their adoption.

The Renovation Hub, launched in May 2018, builds on validation of articles and disseminating STUNNING in
the extensive studies carried out by the STUNNING your own community.
project team:
Visit the platform and register online at renovation-hub.eu
• Refurbishment packages are benchmarked based
on factors such as required building characteristics, Project STUNNING is funded by the European Union’s
cost-benefit indicators, embedded technologies and framework programme Horizon 2020 under grant
technology readiness level. agreement No 768287. It started on October 2017 with
a duration of 24 months and is coordinated by DOWEL
• Results from the analysis of Europe-wide barriers Management (France) with project partners CSTB (France),
for deep renovation are funneled through RINA Consulting (Italy), Solintel (Spain) and Steinbeis 2i
recommendations on how to overcome them. (Germany). l

• Promising and replicable renovation business
models are mapped, analyzed and validated within
case studies.

Designed to be collaborative, the Renovation Hub enables Contact details:
stakeholders from the entire value chain to gain and share
knowledge through articles on innovative refurbishment Web: stunning-project.eu
packages, replicable business models and case studies Coordinator: Karine Laffont-Eloire
on successful implementations. Interested parties can Email: karine.laffont@dowel.eu
register with the following degrees of participation:

• Follower Access information through publicly available
articles, our social media channels and our newsletter.

• Expert Get the additional ability to submit your own
articles, validate articles from others and participate
in workshops.

• Ambassador Get additional exposure in leading the

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