What motivates and hinders energy refurbishments
Findings from the workshop in Baden-Württemberg
Needs Obstacles
Homeowner associations
- Exchange with neighbors + notice board
- Good (telephone) accessibility of the property management and the advisory board
- Quick action by the property management in urgent circumstances
- Clarification of necessary next steps
- Reduction of service charges
- Good understanding of the problem and being taken along
- Improving the quality of living
- Include e-mobility and other wishes
- Experts provide information and consults at the owners’ meeting
Homeowner associations
- Superficial knowledge, different opinions, lack of willingness to innovate
- Fear of botched solutions
- Costs, dirt, noise, duration of renovation –> use of the property
- Little incentive for low-income households (e.g. elderly widows)
- House cost increase too high
- Information documents are lacking and do not raise awareness of the issue
Property management
- Finding experts with HOA experience
- Larger supply of general contractors
- One-Stop Shops
- Train advisory boards on energy efficiency topics
- Checklists and information documents suitable for recipients
- Condominium-appropriate individual roadmaps incl. management, lift, underground parking, fire protection
- Simplified graphic representation of the role and task of the administration
- Transparency and compliance with the legal framework
- Information about funding opportunities
Property management
- Lack of professional judgment (e.g. analyzing offers by energy counselors)
- Project management competence: coordination (financing, funding, implementation)
- Redevelopment-friendly HOA law (e.g. circulation procedure)
- Lack of knowledge about financing options
- Convincing co-owners and length of the decision-making process
- Who does the individual roadmaps for HOAs
- Obtain three offers (shortage of skilled workers)
Further information
One- Stop-Shop in Böblingen | Presentation by Tatjana Lehmann | Böblingen Energy Agency
WEG loan financing | Presentation by Ulrike Kaiser-Feil | L-Bank
Information material from the Böblingen Energy Agency | Easier refurbishment together in homeowners’ associations
Toolbox für energetische Sanierungen von Wohnungseigentümer*innengemeinschaften (CO2Online)
Compliance options EWärmeG for residential buildings Baden Württemberg
Background information Contracting
Useful Links
Funding database of the federal government
Video: Successful refurbishment in condominium owners’ associations | Speaker: Karolin Borchert, KUNZE Beteiligungen und Verwaltung GmbH
Search for craftspeople in your area: Search engine with only craft businesses that are registered in a guild.
Funding search engine “Germany does it efficiently.”
Funding database for municipalities from the Climate Protection and Energy Agency Baden-Württemberg
Find an advisor near you: Bonus for an iSFP Building Rehabilitation Roadmap
Outlook for upcoming events
Second round of round tables (online)
