Proposals should cover all of the following:

• Develop renovation solutions for a range of needs (from renovations limited in scope to deep renovations) applying predominantly re-used and / or recycled and/or biosourced construction materials / products in a cradle-to-cradle approach, allowing for installation without significantly modifying the structure of the building (or without overloading existing structures) and demonstrating a high replication and industrial potential.
• Develop multi-functional (passive & active) and scalable renovation solutions to improve energy performance of buildings, applicable to different building types based on prefabricated components and integrated RES systems.
• Develop building envelope solutions with integral means for combined active/passive management of energy transfer, i.e., integrating RES for active heat and sound insulation and direct on-site renewable electricity generation.
• Seek to support the integration of local sources of reused components and secondary raw materials in the renovation packages relying, where relevant, on urban mining.
• Develop novel testing methodologies oriented towards assessing the long-term performance of the elements. This should include the estimation of durability and service life.
• Model and test in actual scale the materials and components selected.
• Benchmark energy and environmental performance (applying the appropriate Level(s) indicators), monitoring (at least one year) at real scale of the new solutions, also demonstrating compliance with project and regulatory requirements, and demonstrating cost-effectiveness of the renovation solutions over the lifetime.
• Assess the risks related to major disruptive events (such as flooding, heat waves, and/or other climate-driven events and/or earthquakes) that apply to the geographical zones targeted and, where relevant, include an analysis of resilience of the renovated building / infrastructure against those major disruptive events. etc. (see page 272-273 of the work programme)

This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership on ‘People-centric, Sustainable Built Environment’ (Built4People).