Energiesprong’s independent Market Development Teams in Europe are taking the next step towards net zero energy solutions for retrofit (and new build)! The Design Competition, that takes place in Germany, France and the UK, aims to develop existing approaches to powerful, scalable and cost-effective solutions focused on apartment blocks. As part of this Design Competition, the concept designs of the winning teams are ready to be presented at different events and the good news is: you are very welcome to join! Stay up-to-date and register for: Net Zero Now! on March 5 in Berlin. The most innovative companies from the construction and housing industries will present their solutions for affordable, serial retrofit solutions to a high-caliber specialist audience. You will also find an innovation market, inspirational speakers, workshops (registration upon arrival) and it’s perfect for networking! A day that is dominated by today's and future serial retrofit solutions and is organized by Energiesprong Germany. Futurebuild in London on March 3-5. Futurebuild brings together 27.000 industry influencers and shapers to drive real change. A world class knowledge programme alongside an immersive exhibition of 450 innovative and inspiring brands and a host of networking events will combine to create an unmissable experience. You can find the concept designs of the 6 winning consortia of the Design Competition UK at the stand of Energiesprong UK . Forum Innovation in Paris on March 19. Energiesprong France offers a day to discuss innovative solutions, partnerships, development opportunities and deployment. The day will end with the award ceremony of the Design Competition. You can visit the exposition of the 24 prototypes of the solution providers finalists all through the day.   The Design Competition is supported by the European  Mustbe0 project , funded by the Interreg NWE Programme through the European Regional Development Fund.

The Design Competition, successfully launched at the Accelerator Day last November by Energiesprong UK, has announced the winners! 6 consortia have been selected to participate in the programme. The aim of the Design Competition is to develop new approaches for high-performance, scalable and cost-effective net zero retrofit solutions focused on apartment blocks. The concept designs of the winning teams will be presented at Futurebuild in London, which takes place from 3 to 5 March 2020. The winning consortia were chosen by an international jury of experts. The consortia all consist of pioneering companies from a range of sectors and from across the UK. The Accelerator Day in November brought together experienced, innovative and creative suppliers in the retrofit and construction industry.  At this successful event, companies were able to pitch to each other to form collaborations and team up. The Accelerator Day was supported and part-funded by the Institute of Engineering and Technology, the European Interreg NWE funding programme and the London Mayor’s RAP ( Retrofit Accelerator Programme ). The solutions to be developed by the teams as part of the competition must be scalable, able to be standardised, offer cost-cutting potential with increasing quantities, tenant and leaseholder-friendly, and must guarantee a long-term net zero standard. Net zero means the home generates sufficient zero carbon energy for the tenant to heat and power their home. The Design Competition is supported by four Housing Providers, who have submitted example properties for the teams to use as their challenges. The Housing Providers involved include the London boroughs of Croydon, Kensington and Chelsea, Exeter City Council and Nottingham City Homes/Council. The Design Competition has 3 categories, each with 2 winners: Build Up – adding a layer on top of existing flats, while ensuring whole building net zero energy DEEP-ER with 15-40, KIN, E.ON and Bow Tie Construction with the support of Etude and Solid Geometry United Living with ECD Architects, Wilde, Greengauge, Langley, Beattie Passive, IFC Group, Keegans, Carnego Systems, SOAP Retrofit and Build Test Solutions Net zero energy concept designs for low rise apartments/flats (<4 stories) Constructive Thinking with Core Controls, Mauer, Ventive Darwen and Q-Bot BowTieSprong with Bow Tie Construction, Gardner Stewart Architects, Mauer UK and Nilan UK Billing, metering and monitoring solutions Ventive with Meilus Homes and Clear Blue Energy Carnego with SOAP Retrofit and Build Test Solutions The winning consortia are mentored by Energiesprong’s experts and are working together to develop their solutions. They will be presenting their concept designs at Futurebuild in London between the 3 and 5 March 2020. Energiesprong and her partner National Energy Foundation ( NEF ) would love you to join here! Housing Providers who are interested in attending a drinks reception where the designs will be presented should contact jude.andrews@energiesprong.uk The Design Competition is supported by the European  Mustbe0 project , funded by the Interreg NWE Programme through the European Regional Development Fund.

The Energiesprong Initiative’s Accelerator Programme, coordinated by the German Energy Agency (Dena), has selected 20 companies to participate in the programme. Dena is supporting these pioneering companies to further develop existing approaches to high-performance, scalable and cost-effective renovation solutions, which will result in apartment buildings quickly and easily reaching a Net Zero Standard. This means that, on average, the buildings will generate as much energy as they need for hot water, electricity and heating. Over the next four years, the programme intends to meet the demand from housing companies for new, serial renovation solutions for the 10,000 plus apartments agreed on in November. The Accelerator Programme is part-funded by the EU’s Interreg NWE "Mustbe0" project. Four construction companies were selected: Ecoworks, the BAM Group, Renolution BV from Haaksbergen in the Netherlands and the B&O Group. In addition, 16 companies supplying the prefabricated façades, the solar roof elements and the building services modules were included in the programme: AHA Mitsubishi, CTC Giersch, Daikin - Rotex, Drexel and Weiss, Kingspan, Luftgut, NFG, Opitz Holzbau, Panasonic, Plandach, Pluggit, Rheinzink , Roofit.solar, Sieveke, Stegimondo and Sto. Issuing a wildcard to another construction company The participating companies will be trained by Energiesprong’s international experts and will take part in workshops to further develop their products. In addition, another construction company or start-up wishing to enter the serial renovation market as a complete solution provider can participate in the programme with a wildcard. The solution to be developed as part of the programme must be scalable, able to be standardised, offer cost-cutting potential with increasing quantities, tenant-friendly, and must guarantee a long-term net zero standard. As with the other complete solution providers, the wildcard also includes financial support of 36,000 Euros. Interested parties should contact accelerator@energiesprong.de by 31 January 2020.

The visit to the first Energiesprong construction site in Germany was very crowded: in Hameln, Lower Saxony, experts from the housing and the building industries experienced how the prefabricated façades could be placed into position on site within just a few minutes. Symposium on the first Energiesprong renovation in Germany 150 experts from the housing, construction and political sectors visited the first Energiesprong construction site in Germany at the NetZero symposium in Hameln on 9 December 2019. In Hameln, the housing company Arsago Group has begun regenerating an unrenovated apartment building from the 1930s with 12 apartments using the Energiesprong concept. "We are testing serial refurbishment here because we want to combine energy-efficient refurbishment with low rents," explained Florian Schrage, Asset Manager of the Arsago Group. On the construction site, a complete façade was positioned within a few minutes: the insulation, windows, electrics and ventilation ducts, as well as the external wooden cladding were already installed in the wall, which measures around three by four metres, and all that remained to do was to place them in front of the old façade on site. A solar system will later be installed on the roof to cover the electricity requirements of a heat pump. The building will then produce enough energy to cover its own electricity and heat requirements. The first industrial and CO2-neutral building refurbishment in Germany "The Energiesprong pilot project in Hameln is a milestone in the practical implementation of the energy revolution in buildings," said Andreas Kuhlmann, Chairman of Dena's Management Board. The prototype for the refurbishment is an apartment building in the Kuckuck quarter, an area which the City of Hameln places great importance on regenerating. The houses are old, the district had a bad image and the vacancy rate was at 80%. The Arsago Group acquired the buildings in 2017. Since then the rubbish on the district’s streets has disappeared and the vacancy rate has fallen to 20%. The press now reports differently on the small district: the narrative has gone from the "Stigma of Kuckuck" to the "Incredible Opportunity for Kuckuck". In order to make the quarter attractive for new groups of tenants in the long term, the houses are now to be renovated in terms of energy, as well as externally. "Dramatically shorter planning and implementation times" This is especially difficult for houses with low rents such as those in the Kuckuck area. The main contractor in Hameln is Ecoworks GmbH, a "hybrid construction company and energy supplier" that has taken up the cause of "CO2-neutral living for all" and which cooperates with established construction technology companies. The company Opitz Holzbau from Neuruppin (Brandenburg), a subsidiary of the building materials company Knauf, is responsible for pre-assembling the façades. The solar systems, heating technology and heat pumps are supplied by established manufacturers. Ecoworks plans and monitors the refurbishment work and then operates the heating system as the contractor for a guaranteed period of 15 years. The project in Kuckuck in Hameln shows that Energiesprong is also technically and legally feasible in Germany. For the pilot project extensive promotional activities took place and support was received from European, federal and local funds. Ecoworks promises potential cost savings of 20-30% compared to conventional renovations, with "dramatically shorter planning and implementation times" than usual. "Energy-saving refurbishments are particularly promising for similar single and multi-family dwellings with high energy consumption," said Ecoworks’ co-founder Emanuel Heisenberg. Currently, more than 700 further residential units are being negotiated with housing associations. Concrete projects are planned for Cologne, Bochum and Hesse. "The large crowd at the Energiesprong construction site is evidence of the huge interest in the technology," said Kristina Zimmermann, Dena expert for Energiesprong.  Kristina continued, "The fact that the first Energiesprong project in Germany can now be visited shows that it is working; this is what the housing industry has been waiting for". In order for residential buildings in Germany to become climate-neutral by 2050 at the latest, the current housing stock, in particular, needs to be renovated in terms of energy efficiency.

On Monday evening (25 th November 2019), the Energiesprong Volume Deal was announced at the German Energy Agency’s (Dena) Energiewendekongress (Energy transition Congress) in Berlin. Twenty-two housing companies have joined forces to renovate over 10,000 apartments in a climate-friendly and socially responsible manner. The volume deal, a joint declaration of intent by the housing industry and the construction industry, marks the first breakthrough in the market development of serial renovation solutions in Germany. Twenty-two housing companies are pooling their demand and providing 11,635 apartments to be successively renovated over the next four years. In addition, four construction companies have agreed to work intensively on the development of economically attractive and scalable comprehensive solutions by March 2020. On the policy side, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy supports the market establishment of serial renovation in Germany. "Serial renovation solutions are an important building block for successful building energy transition, which can give new impetus to the renovation market", said Andreas Feicht, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy on the occasion of the announcement. The goal is to establish a completely new renovation solution based on digitised processes and a high degree of prefabrication. The buildings are scanned with 3-D scanners, with industry 4.0-millimetre precision, so that the prefabricated façades and solar roof elements - including windows, insulation and exterior plaster - only need to be mounted on the site. The entire system technology comes together in a prefabricated energy module. Thus, the net zero standard for retrofits with significantly shorter construction site times and socially acceptable costs should be achieved. A zero-to-zero or net zero energy standard is achieved when buildings themselves produce all the energy they need year-on-year for heating, hot water and household electricity. Next step "Energiesprong is a major contributor to the integrated energy transition in the building sector, with serial renovation solutions such as these having the potential to double climate-friendly redevelopment, and we've taken a giant step in that direction", said Andreas Kuhlmann, Chairman of Dena's board. "The Energiesprong Volume Deal is an important signal to the housing and construction industry in Germany as it shows that energy transition is socially compatible”. Kuhlmann continued, “In the upcoming process, with the market development team, we will closely follow and support the construction and housing companies”. The serial retrofit solution, based on the Energiesprong principle, is an internationally-acclaimed, digitised and industrialised building process with prefabricated elements that can be used to refurbish buildings in a way that is fast, climate-friendly and tenant-friendly. Dena alone estimates the potential for smaller to medium-sized apartment buildings built between the 1950s and 1970s in Germany to be around 500,000 buildings. As a next step, the principle can also be applied to other types of buildings, such as large multi-family houses, one-family houses or communal buildings.

The consortium Nieuw Utrechts Peil has won the prize for best Dutch retrofit project.  The winning Flat for the Future is a social housing net zero-energy apartment building in Utrecht. It is one of the first of its kind in the Netherlands. Green Solutions Award The Green Solutions Award is organised by Construction21 to showcase innovative buildings, districts and infrastructures from across the world that contribute towards achieving the climate goals. A total of 37 countries participated in this competition with a total of 192 projects. 22 sustainable projects were awarded prizes . The Green Solutions Award is special in that it is both a national and an international competition. The first phase took place in every country hosting a Construction21 platform, resulting in around fifty champions being selected by the juries of experts and website visitors. With this victory came another one: the national winners also became international finalists. The Dutch consortium ‘Nieuw Utrechts Peil’ won the national prize having delivered the best Dutch retrofit project and, on top of that, gained a special mention in the Sustainable Renovation Grand Prize. Why they won The international jury considered the Flat for the Future to be a: "perfect example of sustainable renovation in residential construction. The project calls for industrialised processes that reduce costs, while respecting the architecture of the original building and preserving the aesthetic cohesion of the neighbourhood. Although the exterior does not suggest it, the Flat for the Future is an ultra-modern net zero-energy building; a real ‘Tour de force’ in a region where the sun does not always shine". Take a look at the case study on the building. More net zero-energy buildings to follow Commissioned by the Mitros Housing Association, the concept of the Flat for the Future called ‘Keep it Simple’ will be continued with 60 net zero-energy homes and 29 gas-free A + homes to be finished in the spring of 2020. Solutions provider, VIOS, part of the winning consortium, also participates in the Interreg NWE Mustbe0 project , implemented by Energiesprong teams in the Netherlands, France, Germany and the UK. The goal of this project is to develop a market for net zero-energy apartment buildings in North West Europe. The project aims to improve market conditions, drive technology and develop and implement retrofits for 9 demonstration apartment buildings in these countries (415 apartments). The focus of the solutions providers, VIOS, and other suppliers in the project, is to reduce the cost, and improve the quality and desirability, of technologies used in net zero-energy retrofits. New components such as solar systems, smart facades for apartment buildings and a prototype energy module will be further developed. All to be produced off-site and quickly assembled on site. Inspire others To inspire others and to make sure knowledge is shared and used in the other North West European markets, VIOS (as a partner in the Nieuw Utrechts Peil consortium) regularly open their doors to other component suppliers and solution integrators wishing to enter the net zero-energy market. The Flat for the Future project has already received visitors from Germany and France. Even representatives from New York came to visit the flat as they were developing a project, called RetrofitNY , inspired by Energiesprong. In this way, lessons are being shared and disseminated so that net zero-energy can become a worldwide standard for housing. The Flat for the Future in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Energiesprong UK is taking off! And now, they need help in scaling up.   That is why, on November the 13th, they’ve launched a Design Competition in London (Institute of Engineering and Technology). The Design Competition aims at bringing forward new approaches and solutions to meet demand from social landlords who are about to start their pilot projects. The Accelerator Day is where innovators meet to work together on net zero energy solutions for retrofit (and new build). The event will bring together experienced, innovative and creative suppliers in the retrofit and construction industry.   Energiesprong uses the social housing sector in the UK as the launching market for these approaches and solutions, with a view to later scale to the private homeowner market. Energiesprong is working with a number of housing associations and local authorities that are looking to launch tenders. The competitions have been shaped around these tenders and demand in the market.   The competition categories are: Build Up – adding a layer on top of existing flats; while ensuring whole building Net Zero Energy Net Zero Energy concept designs for low rise apartments/flats (<4 stories) Billing, metering and monitoring solutions   Energiesprong is hoping to team up the best designers, contractors, product and system suppliers to form partnerships which will bid for the competition and future tenders. For questions and inquiries please contact us via this e-mail address: competition@energiesprong.uk This event will be supported by MUSTBE0 Interreg NWE and Home Energy Accelerator for London (HEA).

As a leading industrial nation, Germany has a responsibility to lead the way in opposing global climate change. As part of this chosen pathway, on the 20 th of September 2019 the federal government presented their plan of actions as the cornerstones of the Climate Protection Program 2030. Included in this package is an important impulse to strengthen innovative retrofit processes such as the Energiesprong approach, in order to accelerate market development and thus to increase refurbishment rates.   Industrial renovation in the building sector The cornerstones for the Climate Protection Program 2030 adopted by the Federal Government includes, among other things, promoting industrial renovation in the building sector. Support will be provided for the prefabrication of façade and roof elements and for a standardized installation unit as well as the supply of self-generated electricity in conjunction with new investment and contracting models. ‘’This is an important impulse to strengthen innovative retrofit processes such as the Energiesprong solution, in order to accelerate market development and thus significantly increase the refurbishment rates, ‘’ says Uwe Bigalke, team leader Energiesprong Germany at the German Energy Agency Gmbh (dena). ‘’In the area of multi-family homes from the 50’s to the 70’s alone, we can bring about 3 million units to a net zero standard using the Energiesprong approach. This means that the buildings themselves produce all the energy needed for heating, hot water and electricity throughout the year. For this purpose, we are currently developing a first market with pioneers from the construction and housing industry. Over the next few years, this approach can be applied to multi-family homes, single-family homes and non-residential buildings.’’   Market development in Europe: from single-family homes to apartment buildings Independent Energiesprong market development teams work in different countries with housing organizations and builders, but also with regulators to tune policy and regulation, and with banks to create financial arrangements to make a viable path to scale. The industrial renovation according to the Energiesprong solution has already been successful in several European countries. In the Netherlands, the country of origin of Energiesprong, as well as in France and Great Britain, more than 5.000 single-family homes have already been converted. After focusing on the renovation of single-family homes the focus is currently on the market development for multi-family buildings. To realize this, a close exchange in knowledge and close cooperation with the participating companies and market development teams takes place. Over the next few years, Energiesprong pilots will be implemented in the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands, showing in particular how net-zero solutions for multi-family homes work. Implementation of the first pilots will also be supported through the EU INTERREGNWE program under the MUSTBEO project.   Volume deal in Germany In Germany, the Energiesprong initiative is currently bundling several thousand residential units to be renovated into a volume deal that also includes the construction industry, politics and other supporters. The Energiesprong team through various coaching programs supports the participating companies. ‘’Since we are developing a product that does not yet exist, it will mean builders will have to invest in a market that they do not always see is there. That is why we create this first market by making a volume deal. Costs can be reduced at a given moment by scale, by smarter processes and by innovation at product level,’’ says Sanne de Wit, head of ideas at Energiesprong. The volume deal will be signed on November 25 in Berlin during the dena Energiewende-Kongress 2019. Keep checking our website for more news on the volume deal! Read more about Energiesprong Germany on www.energiesprong.de

Thanks to the 17 now finished E=0 pilot homes, the Energiesprong solution in the UK has taken another step towards scaling up. These homes are the first of the total 155 households set to benefit from the rollout during 2019. Transforming hard to heat homes The new Nottingham Energiesprong pilot radically improved 17 homes, comprising of 10 bungalows and 7 two-bedroom, three-storey houses. The formerly hard to heat homes have now new highly insulated outside walls and windows, a solar roof, a state of the art heating and energy system, plus monitoring equipment to verify actual energy performance. Residents benefit from a total home comfort upgrade whilst continuing to pay, on average, the same or less than they were paying before. The 17 homes are a follow up on the first pilot in the UK unveiled in Nottingham in December 2017 that received very positive feedback from residents. ‍A whole neighbourhood to benefit The positive impacts and the potential to regenerate the neighbourhood led Nottingham Councillors to support the upgrading of a further 155 homes in 2019.  Nottingham has recently declared that they will be Carbon Neutral by 2028 – this is one of the most ambitious city targets in the UK.  Councillor Sally Longford says that “achieving our carbon neutral target by 2028 needs a rapid scaling up of retrofit.  It is really crucial that we ensure that fuel bills are reduced and that homes are warm and comfortable.” Nottingham City Homes Chief Executive, Nick Murphy, added: “This rollout will really add to the regeneration of neighbourhoods across the city.  We are proud to be supporting the council in achieving their carbon neutral commitment by finding innovative ways to retrofit our homes” Refining the solution Melius Homes , who also realised the first pilots together with Studio Partington, have speed up time on site and reduce costs. For examples roof units are now being manufactured offsite. This makes the work faster, and ultimately aims to remove the need for scaffold. Also, the prefabricated wall panels are being built with windows & doors already in and fixings and flashings are redesigned to speed up installation. A new controls package is being developed to allow better optimisation of performance. On top of that internal M&E fixtures are being assembled before being retrofitted to reduce disruption and ensure faster delivery. The rollout includes clusters of homes with communal energy centres with ground source heat pumps fed by electricity generated from solar panels on the roofs. Battery and thermal storage help make the most of solar energy captured onsite. A new factory, more jobs Melius Homes is pressing ahead to set up its own factory to create a vertically integrated supply chain to enable more rapid cycles of continuous improvement for net zero energy retrofits. The pilot has allowed the company to refine their design to manufacture process with a digital workflow which will enable them to quickly start manufacturing their bespoke wall and roof modules. David Adams, technical director Melius Homes said: “We are very excited to be setting up our new factory in Nottingham. The pilot has allowed us to test and refine our processes and we are confident that we can now start to scale up rapidly.  We have also recently expanded our team with 5 apprentices and are currently looking for more local recruits to help us in the factory.” Funding Nottingham City Council has secured over £5 million through the  European Regional Development Fund  (2014-20), with its Deep Retrofit Energy Model project, to support this rollout. Interreg NWE’s E=0 is assisting with the cost of retrofitting the pilot homes. Read more about Energiesprong UK on www.energiesprong.uk

Energiesprong Germany, coordinated by the German Energy Agency (dena), launches a program to accelerate the development of serial remediation solutions. The goal of this accelerator program is to develop existing approaches to powerful, scalable and cost-effective solutions. In this way the rising amount of housing associations which are urgently looking for new, industrial renovation solutions are being served. The program offers coaching by international Energiesprong experts, several workshops and pitch events with construction and housing industries, as well as financial support up to 180,000 euros - 36,000 euros per general contractor. Applications are possible until 08.11.2019 at www.energiesprong.de/accelerator . The accelerator program is supported by the European Mustbe0 project, funded by Interreg NWE. General contractors and component manufacturers wanted So far, there are still no scalable serial retrofit solutions for residential buildings in the German market. The program is therefore aimed at general contractors, i.e. companies that completely implement the construction process. The aim of the applicants should be to further develop their business model and to offer a one-stop solution for energy suppliers as a full-range supplier. This solution must be standardisable and scalable, offer cost reduction potential with increasing quantities and be easy to implement for tenants. The solution must also guarantee in the long term that the refurbished buildings produce as much energy as they need for heating, hot water and household appliances (net zero standard). Furthermore, the program is aimed at component manufacturers who want to offer prefabricated insulated facades, prefabricated insulated roofs with photovoltaic technology or plug-and-play solutions for the entire system technology and to optimize existing approaches. Companies that cover multiple areas can apply for multiple roles. The detailed requirements and conditions of participation can be downloaded after an informal registration on www.energiesprong.de/accelerator . On September 24, 2019, questions about the program and the required concepts can be clarified in the context of a webinar. About Energiesprong Germany In Germany, Energiesprong is coordinated by dena, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and supported by the GdW Bundesverband deutscher Wohnungs- und Immobilienunternehmen. The implementation of the prototypes and the innovation program will be funded through the EU program Interreg NWE Mustbe0.

The pioneering Energiesprong approach to get UK homes up to the proposed net zero energy standard has won a first prize in the 2019 Ashden Awards.  Ashden assessors applauded Energiesprong’s potential to radically cut carbon from the UK’s housing stock by refurbishing older hard to heat homes, both faster and in higher numbers. They also noted Energiesprong’s progress including the rollout of the Energiesprong approach to homes in Nottingham and pilots including in Maldon, Essex. In the UK a total of 186 net zero energy retrofits are now confirmed with 155 Nottingham households set to benefit from the rollout this year. Ashden commented: “Energiesprong holds huge promise because it can scale. With industrialisation, costs come down, retrofits get faster and further quality gains become possible. As we move towards a zero-carbon society we can then really look forward to everyone living in a desirable, comfortable home that is affordable to heat.” 40.000 homes per year Emily Braham, Head of Team at Energiesprong UK, said: "There are 11 million homes in the UK we could retrofit to Energiesprong's net zero energy standard with today's technology. Working with the National Energy Foundation on the European Transition Zero and E=0 projects has helped us build significant demand for a model which we've shown can work, with front-running landlords who own more than 100,000 homes. At 40,000 homes per year costs will reduce to make the retrofit self-financing, which we are targeting by 2030." Read the whole news item at Energiesprong.uk

Brussels, 18 June.   The EU Sustainable Energy Awards recognise outstanding innovation in energy efficiency and renewable energy. Out of hundreds of projects,  the Interreg E=0 and  Horizon2020 Transition Zero projects, executed by Energiesprong market development teams in the UK, France and the Netherlands, won the 2019 award for most innovative project. Ron van Erck, Head of International Market Development at Energiesprong Foundation: “It’s a great moment to realise how much momentum we have been able to create with literally hundreds of people that have come together in five European countries now, all driving a new approach for retrofitting buildings. One that is desirable for people, one that uses the modern technologies available to us and one that really solves the issues that need solving instead of marginally improving on them.” Affordable and attractive home upgrades The two European projects have allowed Energiesprong market development teams to create markets for affordable and attractive net zero energy retrofits. After such a retrofit each home produces enough energy for its heating, hot water and appliances. Money saved on energy bills and maintenance pays for the improvement. Highly insulated walls, roofs with integrated solar panels and other large components are made off-site, which allows whole-house retrofits to be done quickly and with minimum disruption to tenants. Real-life performance for energy use and indoor comfort is guaranteed for up to 30 years. “Before our upgrades, homes were not as energy efficient as they should have been and residents were daunted by complicated internal wall insulation. Plus, they did not want builders in their homes for weeks. Our solution overcame all of their concerns and made the whole process manageable,” said Sébastien Delpont, Director of the Energiesprong market development team in France.  After the retrofit the house is comfortable and looks good. “It was really cold, but now when you come home there is no need to turn on the heater. It´s much more comfortable when you come home,” says tenant Amelie Goblas in the documentary  E=0 transforming homes into the future . On top of that, houses are healthier because they are free of mould and draughts. These radical makeovers can uplift whole neighbourhoods.  Transforming housing across Europe and beyond The Energiesprong approach aims to create a new industry making these high performance, desirable and affordable retrofits. After the Netherlands, Energiesprong selected France, the UK, Germany and Northern Italy as initial markets to to create demand for volume retrofits and a supply chain to service them. A set of teams in North America is driving a similar initiative there.  All is facilitated by independent Energiesprong market development teams that intervene in the market by creating demand for this standard. We work with regulators to tune policy, regulation and with banks to create financial arrangements to make a viable path to scale. By brokering large volume deals, we create the momentum needed for stakeholders to act simultaneously. This creates a viable market to entice suppliers to invest in digital off-site manufacturing. Mass customisation and industrialisation are the key. The initial concept was born in the Netherlands, where 5,000 homes have successfully been retrofitted to date. In France 26 retrofits are realised while 6,550 retrofits are planned, in the UK 15 demonstrators are complete of 186 retrofits confirmed to date. After a successful start bringing the Energiesprong approach to single family homes across Europe, the coming three years will see Energiesprong also develop a market for retrofitting apartment buildings in North West Europe under a recently started project:  Mustbe0 , funded by  Interreg NWE . The teams in the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands will join forces. Energiesprong a worldwide movement Energiesprong is an award-winning* revolutionary, whole house refurbishment and new built standard and funding approach. We are active in Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, New York State, and the UK. Cities across the world recognise the Energiesprong opportunity.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=T5YfRwGeTNs *In 2018 Energiesprong won the World Green Building Council award and Nottingham’s Energiesprong homes won the  UK Housing Award and  Shift Award . And today 2019 Energiesprong´s E=0 and Transition Zero projects won the EU Sustainable Energy Award.