Renovating History: How to bring historic buildings into the 21st century

The need to urgently reduce the EU’s dependency on Russian fossil fuels and at the same time to transform our buildings to be highly energy efficient and decarbonised by 2050 requires us to take into account the entire building stock. A sizable proportion of the existing building stock in the EU can fall into the category of historic, heritage and other protected buildings, many of which are amongst the worst-performing buildings in terms of energy consumption.

It is therefore imperative that they must be taken into account in the design of future national buildings renovation plans and policy measures to meet the EU’s climate objectives by improving their energy performance and reducing CO2 emissions while also improving living conditions.

This webinar will demonstrate opportunities for energy renovation of historic buildings. Speakers will present practical solutions, such as the HiBERatlas project and the Italian Green Building Council’s certification scheme, and will discuss possible approaches to tackle this topic at EU and local level with the contribution of MEP Marcos Ros Sempere, shadow rapporteur on the EPBD within the Parliament’s ENVI Committee.

Agenda

Introduction
Céline Carré, President of Efficient Buildings Europe (formerly EuroACE)

• Practical solutions and strategies for the renovation of historic buildings
  – The GBC Historic Building certification scheme
  Marco Mari, President, Italian Green Building Council
  – The IEA EBC Annex 76 on renovating historic buildings and the HiBERatlas project
  Alexandra Troi, Vice Head of the Renewable Energy Institute, Eurac Research
• The importance of not leaving historic buildings behind
  Marcos Ros Sempere, MEP (S&D, Spain), European Parliament

Discussion and Q&A

Conclusion