PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
The Life Giga Regio Factory project recognises the need for a change of scale in order to be able to target 10% of the market by 2030 and 1 million homes renovated to a guaranteed zero-energy level in an industrialised way in Europe. This project is a complementary consortium from Italy, Belgium, Germany and France that aims to address this issue : -This team would involve housing organisations and organisation acting as market development team (with expertise in housing, energy, buildings typologies, industrialized approach, coaching & solutions, procurement process, comfort, desires and needs of the end use) -Its aims at bridging and building on existing initiatives, including the ones of the EU transnational open-source movement EnergieSprong that aims at supporting price decrease and rate acceleration of deep energy retrofit solutions, using plug & play prefab elements, with higher quality. Such efforts have been started in social housing in Netherlands, France, Germany and Italy, and could with this proposal also be activated in Belgium. It has 3 main axes: 1. Developing an open-source tool for the qualification of housings in order to better qualify them and developing smarter aggregation strategy to launch large scale collective industrial retrofits at zero energy level : a configurator combining the selection of suitable housings and available industrialised solutions, in order to generate buy-in-schemes with several thousand homes per region 2. Total solution integrator accelerator : coaching companies that integrate and assemble industrial solutions to enable them to develop 100% industrialised offers (design, methods, implementation, guarantee and operation & maintenance) 3. Industrialization giga factory kit : enable solution providers to scale up to enable them to meet massive demand by supporting them in the development of their industrial tools, to generate the investments that will enable them to renovate up to 10,000 homes per region.