The SHINE project came to an end in February 2021. It focused on district renovations with a bottom-up approach. Since the start of the SHINE project significant improvements have been achieved. In order to set up a participation process in districts to lower the threshold for district renovations a support base was created. Partners have organised inspiring study trips and a number of meetings with stakeholders (515). So far, a volunteer network of 147 energy experts has been established to guide the families of the district in saving energy. Additionally, 1577 residents have received energy advice. Furthermore, 206 smart meters and 395 monitoring systems were installed to help the families reduce energy and 777 energy kits with energy savers were handed out. At the end of SHINE, the project can disseminate a method with different kind of tools with an instruction of which tools work the best in which kind of district.

The SHINE project has also been busy with developing a method to guide renovations in a district approach. Therefore 414 energy audits and self-scans were carried out and based on these group purchases of energy saving measures and renewable energy were provided. During the design phase, as during the renovation 158 owners were guided with assistant meetings by professional experts in order to guide them to renovate as close as possible to Nearly-Zero-Energy level.

Except for the local residents, the local building professionals are a second important target group in the SHINE project. In order to accelerate the quick uptake of building innovations by local building professionals the SHINE partners worked on a joint method to identify the needs of this target group. Based on subsequent analysis, 23 local and 2 cross-border networks were organised. These will help to develop a method to identify the needs of the local building professionals.

Furthermore, the SHINE partners implemented energy efficient district renovations of their own housing stock. So far 470 dwellings have been renovated. In total 699 dwellings have been renovated, with a total carbon reduction of 174,905 tonnes CO2.

We are proud that we could do this experiment of sustainable housing with a neighbourhood approach. SHINE has been a great learning experience for future projects in our city and in fact this paved to wa to another similar project implemented in another neighbourhood

SHINE was great for us because it made us bring the people and resources together to retrofit this 40 unit block occupied by vulnerable energy poor households.

Thanks to the SHINE project it was our success to extend our skills and to design a new and innovative tool for improving the energy efficiency and the occupant’s comfort in buildings.

Project partners