Synergies with existing EU & international initiatives

• Author: Carbonar, Giulia; Sterling, Raymond; Spirinckx, Carolin; Vandevelde, Birgit; De Groote, Maarten; Dourlens-Quaranta, Sophie; Lodigiani, Alessandro; Volt, Jonathan; Borragán, Guillermo; Glicker, Jessica; Kondratenko, Irena; Toth, Zsolt; Rajagopalan, Neethi; De Regel, Sofie; Rapf, Oliver; Calderoni, Marco; Loureiro, Tatiana
• Pages: 94-100

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CHAPTER 8: SYNERGIES WITH EXISTING EU &

INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES

The implementation potential and chances for success of the priority actions will increase

through building synergies within a larger framework of EU and international initiatives. The

most relevant initiatives are the following:

•Building renovation passport

•Circular Economy Action Plan

•Digital Europe Programme

•Energy Performance Certificates

•Environmental Product Declarations

•Level(s)

•Product Environmental Footprint

•Renovation Wave

•Smart Readiness Indicator.

These initiatives and their potential synergies with the digital building logbook are described

below.

Building renovation passport

The technical feasibility study56 carried out by BPIE and INIVE for DG ENER in 2019 assessed

the “possible introduction of an optional building renovation passport in the context of the

Energy Performance of Buildings Directive”. [22] A reference to “an optionalscheme for

building renovation passports” had been introduced in Article 2a of the EPBD by Directive

2018/844/EU, concerning national long-term renovation strategies to support the

transformation of the national building stocks into highly energy-efficient and decarbonised

building stocks by 2050. The building renovation passport is defined in the feasibility study

as follows: “A building renovation passport provides a long-term, tailored renovation

roadmap for a specific building, following a calculation based on available data and/or an

on-site audit by an energy expert. The instrument identifies and outlines a deep renovation

scenario(s), including steps to implement energy-saving measures that could improve the

building’s energy performance to a significantly higher level over a defined period. The

instrument can be complementary to energy performance certificates and/or combined with

digital logbooks.” The Renovation Wave strategy also referred to the potential to link the

digital building logbook to building renovation passports.

The feasibility study gathered information on available schemes, analysed their

characteristics and implementation models, and assessed their maturity and effectiveness.

Based on this, it concluded that the building renovation passport can be effective in

increasing the renovation rate and depth, and the quality of the measures as well as which

types of measures are being implemented. The study also outlined several policy packages

for how the instrument could be supported or introduced by the EU.

The building renovation passport study exemplifies how the instrument and the digital

building logbook can strengthen each other, which has also been elaborated in the B-LOG

study. In light of the current developments of the two concepts, some highly relevant

interactions of both frameworks are especially considered:

•The interface of the logbook could integrate the renovation pathway developed under

the building renovation passport as one of its functionalities. While not featured in

56Article 19a of the EPBDDirective 2018/844/EU required the European Commission to conduct a feasibility

study to identify the need, possibilities and timeline for introducing EU provisions related to the inspection of

stand-alone ventilation systems and an optional building renovation passport –https://www.epbd19a.eu/