Unburdening and supervising private, circular renovation projects

Passive Town House sets out roadmap for the circular renovation of a single-family house, for and by private individuals

In Flanders, there are still a lot of single-family houses to be rebuilt. But if you renovate according to circular principles as a private individual, then you quickly run into a number of hurdles: there are diverse criteria surrounding circularity. The translation from theory to practice is also lacking. The list of questions during the demolition, the design phase and the reconstruction is growing. In addition, there are a lot of financial and legal questions and challenges. There is a need to unburden and guide private circular building projects. Christophe and Karen experienced this at first hand during the renovation of their house in Mechelen.

Passive House Platform / Pixii wants to develop a broader guidance process on the basis of identified bottlenecks (and opportunities), both in the customer journey, the building practice and in the process counselling. The route guidance process will be fully mapped and will serve as a basis for the development of a training course for renovation counsellors who want to guide private individuals in their circular building project. The results will also be incorporated in a technical training course on circular renovation. And the same roadmap can also be used by other interested building owners, professional parties or policy makers to facilitate and support energy neutral circular (re)construction in a private context.

In short, Passiefhuis-Platform / Pixii focuses with this project on private individuals who want to renovate in a circular way.

Photo: Christophe Lambrechts