Despite the growing housing crisis across Europe, millions of buildings remain vacant or underutilised, while the building sector accounts for 36% of CO₂ emissions and 40% of energy consuption at the European level.
Within this context, we are very pleased to announce our new project Transforming Invisible Buildings, aiming to address both the challenges of energy efficiency and housing affordability by reactivating vacant and underutilised buildings rather than constructing new ones, in Athens, Ljubljana, and Zagreb.
Through vacancy mapping, building reactivation into municipal systems and One-Stop-Shop (OSS) services, policy labs and capacity-building workshops, the project aims to reduce emissions, optimise energy consuption, foster a climate-neutral built environment in the three cities, and replicate the results that will be produced within the project in six additional cities.
You can find more details about how the Transforming Invisible Buildings project addresses the housing crisis in Athens, Ljubljana and Zagreb, in the following newly published article: https://www.euki.de/en/turning-empty-spaces-into-energy-efficient-and-affordable-homes/
More details about the project: https://www.euki.de/en/euki-projects/transforming-invisible-buildings/
The project is funded by the European Climate Initiative (EUKI)