Europe's building stock is responsible for 40% of its energy consumption. The EU wants to double its renovation rate by 2030. That requires more than policy, it requires tools that make deep renovation concrete and actionable for the people who own the buildings.

Refaktory built those tools.

As part of two consecutive Horizon 2020 research programmes, we developed the software behind the individual Building Renovation Roadmap and the Building Logbook. A construction expert uses the tool to build a personalised, step-by-step renovation plan for a specific building. The homeowner gets a clear, long-term roadmap toward an energy-efficient home.

Because no two buildings are alike and experts cannot survey everything from scratch, the software contains an extensive database of building defaults. A house built in 1960 carries certain characteristics. A 1985 apartment block carries others. The tool works with those defaults as the starting point.

The second project, iBRoad2EPC, extended the concept further: connecting the renovation passport directly to the official Energy Performance Certificate schemes of six EU countries. Refaktory built that software too, along with an open API so other expert tools can connect to it.

Two Horizon 2020 projects. One consistent technical partner across both.