LIFE Low carbon industrialised retrofit for building sector ecosystem

Introduction

The Hauts-de-France Region, as part of its Rev3 initiative supporting the implementation of innovation, transition, and climate-related policies, aims at developing and financing an innovative building renovation project to drastically accelerate the energy transition across its territory.

Objectives

The project will develop structured value chains allowing the replicability of results. It will implement the innovative methods of off-site building (including from Energiesprong), which will allow the Region to:

• Reach its climate objectives
• Support the creation of more than 20,000 sustainable jobs
• Generate and leverage significant public-private investment

Project Support

LIFE LoCaRB aims at supporting the project application to the LIFE SIP CLIMA 2023 call to strengthen the consortium and regional governance and benefit from the EC support and visibility.

Ecosystem Development

A regional ecosystem favorable to amplifying the ambition both in terms of demand (landlords, local authorities, promoters, etc.) and supply (companies, solutions providers, etc.) will be developed and engaged in a co-creation process at the proposal stage. This will address all aspects of building energy efficiency innovation, setting up businesses, and skills training to support these growing business sectors.

Collaboration History

Project partners have already engaged in strong project collaboration actions since 2020. They have:

1. Created a business club
2. Established a social landlord club
3. Started training for local authorities to raise awareness

Conclusion

LIFE LoCaRB is therefore the last essential step for the initiative to be fully structured, sustainable, regionally anchored, and able to tackle the regional climate challenge and scale up its deployment.