FAVORIT+ : Blueprint for Integrated Redesign of Urban Blocks for Energy-Efficient & Sustainable Communities
The FAVORIT+ project uses an integrated approach combining nature-based, technological and people-centred solutions to support sustainable renovation of large Soviet-era housing estates. It aims to create a new recipe for energy resilience and climate neutrality in dense urban environments including the use of bio-based materials (to replace polystyrene) and renewable energy sources (biosolar roofs). It aims to promote a co-owned transformation with the local community, including piloting microgrids, creating energy communities and developing an AI-driven digital twin to support energy optimisation, simulations and data-driven collaborative decision making.
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The FAVORIT+ project seeks to create a new integrated solution for energy resilience and climate neutrality in large communist-era housing estates. It focuses on the Favorit neighbourhood of District 6 in Bucharest, characterised by large housing estates which have typically not seen any renovations in the past 50 years.
The project aims to identify and pilot bio-based materials as alternatives to polystyrene in renovation and insulation works – this aims to reduce the environmental impact of such renovations and also create new value chains for local biomass producers.
FAVORIT+ also seeks to support faster adoption of renewable energy sources (RES) in dense urban environments, including by piloting biosolar roofs, micro-grids and AI-driven digital twining for energy optimisation & simulations.
At the heart of the project is a community-focused approach which seeks to engage and empower the local community in a co-owned transformation, including data-driven collaborative decision making and new governance models supporting energy communities.
FAVORIT+ aims to start by fostering positive communities, offering a replicable set of solutions that address all urban block spatial components and intangible assets in large housing estates. It will provide a new Energy and Climate Resilience Index to benchmark renovation practices in large housing estates, acting as a template for replicating solutions.
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The European Urban Initiative is an essential tool of the urban dimension of Cohesion Policy for the 2021-2027 programming period. The initiative established by the European Union supports cities of all sizes, to build their capacity and knowledge, to support innovation and develop transferable and scalable innovative solutions to urban challenges of EU relevance.
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