Designing a smart factory for mass retrofit of houses

Abstract

The North Sea Region (NSR) contains 22 million houses built in 1950-1985 that cause 79 Mton CO2 emissions annually. Current deep retrofit home renovations are carried out on a limited-scale production and only in small projects. This results in the problem that nowadays renovation costs are way too high and the pace of renovation is far too low. Large scale renovations of existing homes towards energy-neutral are currently not addressed in the North Sea Region. Still, the retrofit of houses in the North Sea Region is essential to reach the European energy and climate objectives. However, the building sector in Europe is not creating the necessary production facilities. The target of the just started INTERREG project INDU-ZERO is to develop a blueprint for a production facility that can produce wide suitable renovation packages at a high volume and low cost.