Analyzing the core processes of a renovation

We want to unleash the potential of the renovation industry by increasing the market penetration of sustainable, high-quality and long-lasting building retrofitting products and methods. With our project INFINITE, we want to boost the building renovation sector through the so-called “Renovation4.0” approach. With this approach, we look at both digitalisation and industrialisation to offer tailor-made solutions. These solution will have a high level of design freedom, decrease retrofit costs and time and foster the adoption of eco-compatible long-lasting products and systems.

A workshop was held to analyze how the core processes of a renovation along the whole value-chain should be handled from the design, to the commissioning, to the after sales services (e.g. assistance, maintenance). The companies’ roles and responsibilities, warranties and liability in front of the customer will be analyzed aiming at creating an appealing solution with clear opportunities as well as risks.

We look at 6 stages of renovation:

  1. Upstream activities
  2. Initiation/ viability
  3. Planning/ design
  4. Construction/ implementation
  5. Operation/ maintenance
  6. End-Of-Life/ downstream

The results of the workshop session held with the INFINITE partners shows a shift of design activities towards the early stages of the building process, as early as the viability phase. In this phase more design actions are taking place as wells as circularity and LCC/LCA assessment studies. Participatory activities are more present in stage 3 and are back in stage 5 for feedback and reviews.

Construction tasks are drastically reduced in phase 5 and 6 compared to the traditional approach. More market activities and financial assessment take place in stage 6 -end of life scenario, due to reallocation of material/components by disposal managers, urban miners and ESCOs.

In terms of stakeholders involved in these last phases, monitoring and data managers are more present, along with financial institutions.

Want to know more about this workshop and our conclusions? Read the full report.

Questions? Contact Maria Sara di Maggio m.d.maggio@abt.eu or Lorenzo Lignarolo l.lignarolo@abt.eu

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