Digital solutions to foster participative design, planning management of buildings, neighbourhoods and urban districts
Deadline: 21 January 2025
Expected outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:
- Greater engagement of representative groups of end users as well as citizens of the impacted urban context.
- Reduced energy and mobility poverty.
- Increased acceptability and uptake of sustainable deep renovation solutions in the built environment.
- Increase in plans for climate-neutral and sustainable aesthetic and inclusive built environments with enhanced climate adaptation and resilience.
- Enhanced climate change adaptation and resilience in built environments.
Scope:
The transition to a climate-neutral society requires that Europe’s building stock also becomes climate-neutral. At the same time, Europe’s building stock has to become climate resilient. This requires a comprehensive approach beyond individual buildings, namely at the level of neighbourhoods or urban districts. However, the decarbonisation of the built environment and its adaptation to a changing climate and to societal needs in terms of comfort, accessibility, inclusiveness, and aesthetics cannot happen without active participation of the buildings users and occupants, individual/collective property owners, and energy communities as beneficiaries of the value chain.
The transition to a climate-neutral society requires that Europe’s building stock also becomes climate-neutral. At the same time, Europe’s building stock has to become climate resilient. This requires a comprehensive approach beyond individual buildings, namely at the level of neighbourhoods or urban districts. However, the decarbonisation of the built environment and its adaptation to a changing climate and to societal needs in terms of comfort, accessibility, inclusiveness, and aesthetics cannot happen without active participation of the buildings users and occupants, individual/collective property owners, and energy communities as beneficiaries of the value chain.
Proposals are expected to address one or both of the following points:
- Digital solutions that facilitate participative design and planning through visualisation, analysis and engagement with data that is directly relevant to building users as well as citizens in the surrounding urban area.
- Digital solutions that allow to analyse and model different scenarios for to-be-renovated buildings, neighbourhoods and/or disctrics in terms of energy use and generation; users’ health and wellbeing; impact on the energy grid; provisions for active and electric mobility, and sustainable delivery solutions; life-cycle environmental and micro-climatic impacts, and; socio-economic impacts for citizens, building users, owners and occupiers.
