Sustainable Refurbishment of Building Facades and External Walls SUSREF
FP 7 / Environment (including Climate Change) / Collaborative project, Small or medium scale focused research project / 226858
Duration 2009 – 2011
Coordinator Tarja Häkkinen, VTT (tarja.hakkinen@vtt.fi)
VTT SUSREF will develop new sustainable concepts and technologies for the refurbishment of building facades and external walls. The main objectives are: to identify the volumes of needs of refurbish in the EU and in neighbouring areas and evaluate the meaning of this in terms of environmental and economic impact and business potential;
- to develop technologies for refurbishment considering different conditions and requirements and analyse these from the view point of building physics, comfort and energy efficiency.
- to assess and ensure the sustainability of the developed technologies
- to deliver sets of relevant performance specifications for sustainable refurbishment;
- to disseminate the results for building industry, standardisation bodies, and policy-makers and authorities in terms of technological knowledge, guidelines and recommendations.
