Building Understanding
for a Shared Renovation Plan
RenoVisor is an EU-funded Horizon Europe project supporting citizens, homeowners and energy communities in making informed renovation decisions.
By combining social science, advanced building simulation and participatory advisory tools, RenoVisor aims to increase the building renovation rate and contribute to Europe’s decarbonisation goals.
Meeting EU climate and energy efficiency targets requires a major increase in building renovations. However, renovation decisions are often slowed down by limited access to clear and comparable information, complex technical and financial trade-offs, and difficulties in collective decision-making, especially in condominiums.
RenoVisor addresses these barriers by developing three user-friendly tools that combine building simulations with behavioural and social insights, support individual and collective decision processes, and make renovation impacts, costs and benefits understandable to non-experts.
Tools that will be developed within the project
Single-Family House: support for homeowners
Multi-Family House: support for condominium decision-making
Energy Communities: support for districts and neighbourhoods
All tools consider technical, financial and social aspects and support multi-stage renovation planning following the efficiency-first principle.
Project Facts
Programme: Horizon Europe – Climate, Energy and Mobility
Funding scheme: Innovation Action
Duration: 2025–2029
EU contribution: €4.8 million
Consortium: 12 partners, coordinated by Forschungszentrum Jülich
Key Features
- Co-created with citizens and energy communities
- Accessible to non-experts and useful for professionals
- Cost, financing and payback estimates
- Climate-resilience and comfort insights
- Support for consensus-building and energy communities
- Focus on inclusion and reduction of energy and mobility poverty
Pilots and Impact
The tools will be tested in over 10,000 households in Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands, generating practical insights for scalable renovation solutions across Europe.
News and Events
Where does an energy community begin? Not with technology, but with a shared story
You have lived here for years. You know your neighbours, greet each other in the street and feel at home in this neighbourhood. But your energy bills keep rising, and you find yourself wondering: how can we create an affordable and sustainable future together? This...
Citizen-led renovation: the missing link to Europe’s renovation goals
Across Europe, millions of homes need to become more energy efficient to meet the EU's climate and energy objectives. Yet many households still struggle to start renovating due to uncertainty, a lack of reliable information and the complexity of the process. Why...
Digital Help for Scaling Citizen-Led Renovation: the RenoVisor Tools may Help RenoCOOP Partners in Achieving their Goals, and vice versa
At a consortium meeting held in Lisbon at the end of June, members of Goiener–a partner in both projects–presented the RenoVisor Single-Family House (SFH) tool mock-up to the rest of the RenoCOOP consortium.
The tools will be tested in over 10,000 households in Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands, generating practical insights for scalable renovation solutions across Europe.
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