10 December 2010 – 10 December 2012 Contract: IEE/09/741SI2.576295

1. Training for Rebuilding EuropeRetrofitting buildings, training and improved skills, and financing energy efficiency in buildings. 10 December 2010 – 10 December 2012 Contract: IEE/09/741SI2.576295 website: http://www.trainrebuild.eu

2. Key Action & Benefits • Key Action: Training property owners and local authorities on the process for retrofitting buildings. • Project Benefits: Upgrading capacity and knowledge transfer to public and private building owners with the aim to improve the energy performance of the existing EU building stock.

3. Objectives • To design a comprehensive strategy to generate a change in thinking of building owners about the link between energy efficiency and its value related to building ownership. • To encourage retrofitting in a wide range of residential buildings, spanning from individual to multi-family houses and from private to social housing.

4. Target Groups • Staff of national associations of property owners and individual property owners • Officials from local authorities responsible for the retrofit of buildings in some Covenant of Mayors (CoM) cities The project promotes an integrated approach based on training by technicians and professionals whose daily work has an impact on the design, selection, approval, installation, operation, maintenance, sales and marketing of sustainable building.

5. Project Phases TRAINREBUILD consists of three phases:

6. Project Expected Results • Result 1: Energy Solutions • Assistance regarding intelligent energy solutions provided to 3 million property owners through the service package until the year 2020. • Out of 3 million property owners outreached in the EU27, approximately the 2% of them will retrofit their properties in the year after the service package has been transferred to them. • Result 2: Training • Information about training kit disseminated to 1250 local authorities (through the 125 local authorities trained and the Covenant of Mayors Secretariat). • Approximately 25 tenders to be issued by 25 local authorities procuring sustainable buildings.

7. Project Expected Results • Result 3: Market Growth and Financing • Market growth of energy efficient buildings and renewable energy installations in buildings • Approximately 10% increase in private banks and financial institutions financing for building retrofitting in the priority countries benchmarked from 2009 levels to end of project • Result 4: Dissemination • 15 professional European associations, each with a target audience of approximately 10.000 professionals in the whole EU, to distribute the recommendations of the Training Forum. • One new joint retrofit initiative/project in each of the priority country of the project to be initiated by some of the Training Forum participants.

8. Training Toolkits and Service Package • Two Toolkits have been produced (one for property owners associations and one for local authorities) for the trainings in the priority countries. • One final service package will be designed for easy customization within the context of local conditions to ensure the widest possible deployment to individual property owners throughout Europe. • The long-term purpose is to create a significant European dimension to foster market transformation in the building sector and develop a scale effect to reach the EU 2020 goals.

9. First Lesson Learnt Capacity building and trainings are major components that should be addressed to the demand side of the building chain (associations of property owners and local authorities as owners) and not only to the supply side (buildings professionals). The demand for retrofit should reach a tipping point through the establishing a large-scale pan European retrofit programme supported by a stable regulatory framework. This is the only way for industry to realise the market development potential and for financiers to support the process

10. Second Lesson Learnt Crisis in trust for regulations, technologies, finance, building professionals is widespread among property owners. Training is needed for property owners associations and local authorities to communicate the retrofit value to individual owners and create a scale effect in the retrofit process. The focus of successful communication campaigns to property owners should not only be on energy saving but also on improved comfort, indoor air quality and well-being.

11. Third Lesson Learnt Property owners require independent and trusted guidance from energy advisors specialised in the building sector. Local authorities and national property owners associations should be directly involved in training and employing accredited experts to provide a comprehensive service package made of information on the most efficient technologies, available funding instruments, fiscal measures, lists of certified building professionals etc to property owners at local level.

12. Project Partners TRAINREBUILD is a partnership of a highly representative group of networks and organizations addressing the whole value chain of the building sector.

13. Target Countries • Experts of property owners associations in • UK (RICS) • FR (ARENE) • IT (BIELLA) • DE, ES, GR (UIPI) • BE (ABSA) • Local authorities (officials) in charge with the retrofit of buildings in some Covenant of Mayors (CoM) cities in: • HU, BG, RO, PT (REC) • FR (ARENE).