Life Giga Regio Factory : going next stage in market uptake and factory development for more affordable Net Zero energy renovation industrialised solutions packages

Introduction

The Life Giga Regio Factory project recognizes 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 industrialized way in Europe.

Project Overview

This project is a complementary consortium from Italy, Belgium, Germany, and France that aims to address this issue:

• This team would involve housing organizations and organizations acting as a market development team (with expertise in housing, energy, building typologies, industrialized approach, coaching & solutions, procurement process, comfort, desires, and needs of the end user).

Objectives

It aims at bridging and building on existing initiatives, including those 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 the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy, and could with this proposal also be activated in Belgium.

Main Axes

The project has 3 main axes:

1. Developing an open-source tool for the qualification of housing in order to better qualify them and develop smarter aggregation strategies to launch large-scale collective industrial retrofits at zero energy level: a configurator combining the selection of suitable housing and available industrialized 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% industrialized offers (design, methods, implementation, guarantee, and operation & maintenance).

3. Industrialization giga factory kit: enable solution providers to scale up 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.