Climate adapted in NZEB retrofitting for residential buildings

The Climate adapted residential NZEB retrofitting project aims to update and upgrade knowledge and competence of building designers (Architects, civil Engineers) as well as the specific skills of experienced building workforce (site managers, craftsmen and construction foremen) who already have a fair background on sustainable energy solutions for the building sector, gained by attending national Build Up Skills initiatives or related training. The overall objective is to increase the energy performance of European building stock as foreseen in EU Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU by sustaining a specific professional development through a wide-scale roll out of an integrated training model targeting both designers of the building sector and higher building workforce, especially of SMEs. The training model will address, among others, the management of the construction process and the active promotion of market uptake of cost-efficient, climate adapted Smart Retrofitting Solutions in order to reach Nearly Zero Energy Building (NZEB) standards in the existing residential buildings.