FEATURE
Renovation: the property owners’ perspective
Representing over five million property owners from across Europe, the UIPI protects and promote the interests, needs and concerns of homeowners and landlords at national, European and international levels.
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he International Union of Property Owners (UIPI) is a pan-European association that comprises 30 associations in 28 countries in Europe. Together its members represent more than five million
private property owners owning 20 to 25 million dwellings. The property owners it represents are mostly individual
landlords and owner-occupiers,
mostly in the residential sector but also in the small commercial sector. The UIPI was created back in 1923, but its activities
at EU level were limited for many years. More recently though, European legislation in the field of energy efficiency in buildings has been having an impact on the daily life, spending and well-being of property owners. As a consequence, the UIPI has now become involved in the debate, setting up offices in Brussels to provide a voice for citizens directly affected by European legislation.
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UIPI experience in EU projects The UIPI has been active in promoting energy efficiency through events and EU projects. Several conferences were organized during the European Sustainable Energy Week as well as training, dissemination and awareness raising activities for individual property owners and decision-makers. Since 2010, the UIPI has participated in a number
of energy efficiency related projects. The TRAINREBUILD project is aimed at training property owners and others to retrofit their dwellings. The iNSPiRe project (see page 22)
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tackling the problem of high-energy consumption by producing systemic renovation packages that can be applied to residential and tertiary buildings. A new project, ABRACADABRA, is going to assess a renovation strategy based on new ‘building add- ons’ and how that could reduce the payback time of relevant interventions.
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