Renomize – Renovation with automation and optimization of processes and products

Background

The European Union is committed to improving the energy efficiency of buildings as part of its Green Deal strategy. With buildings accounting for a significant share of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, large-scale renovation efforts are necessary to meet climate targets.

Despite advancements in energy-efficient building technologies, the renovation sector still faces challenges in cost, efficiency, and scalability. Current renovation processes are often slow, expensive, and difficult to standardize, leading to suboptimal results and limited adoption.

To address these challenges, the RENOMIZE project seeks to industrialize and automate key processes in building renovation, making deep retrofits faster, more cost-effective, and widely accessible.

The Project’s Response

The RENOMIZE project focuses on four primary areas:

• Development of well-selected innovations tackling the most labour-demanding aspects of prefabricated renovation.
• Holistic process & product optimisation of the prefabricated renovation process.
• Demonstration and validation of the system’s versatility, its efficiency, and its effectiveness in reducing on-site execution times, costs, and disturbance.
• Maximisation of the potential for uptake of process and product innovations of Renomize to enable an increased renovation rate.

Partners Involved

The project consortium consists of 16 partners from Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, including research institutions, technology providers, and construction firms.