Existing European building stock has a large potential for energy performance improvement, especially in colder regions.

The strategy “A Renovation Wave for Europe – Greening our buildings, creating jobs, improving lives" was published in 2020 and aims to double the rate of building renovation in the EU, from 1% to at least 2% annually, by the end of this decade.

In Estonia, even faster rates of renovation are required because of inefficient construction quality and energy performance of old buildings and due to a large renovation deficit. Estonia’s long-term building renovation strategy (LTRS) was developed according to the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive with the aim of providing a strategical plan for transforming all the existing buildings into highly energy efficient and low carbon buildings by 2050

The long-term objective of the LIFE IP BUILDEST project is to increase the ambition, and pave the way for reducing CO₂ emissions, of Estonia’s existing building stock by up to 100% (~4.5 million tCO₂/yr) by 2050. 

Achieving the objectives will help to mitigate the effect that energy performance of buildings has on climate change

Start date: November 2021 - End date: January 2029

Partners

• Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications
• Estonian Union of Co-operative Housing Associations
• Ministry of Environment
• Tallinn University of Technology
• Estonian Digital Construction Cluster
• Estonian Circular Economy Industries Association