A dozen major real estate players commit to developing local ENR&R

This collective action, initiated by Equans, Contrast-e and A4MT and, the number of members of which is expected to grow rapidly, brings together major players: Aire Nouvelle, Altarea, BNP Paribas Real Estate, Covea Immobilier, Crédit Agricole Immobilier Corporate and Promotion, Equans, Espaces Ferroviaires, Icade, La Poste Immobilier, Linkcity, Société de la Tour Eiffel, as well as the Sustainable Real Estate Observatory (OID) and the French Institute for Building Performance ( IFPEB). This initiative, entitled the ENR&R booster, is supported by Ademe which will contribute to its deployment and national impact.

An unprecedented commitment to local ENR&R in the building sector

For more than forty years, the decarbonization of the real estate sector has essentially been based on the end of the use of fuel oil and coal in favor of natural gas and electricity. Recent and ongoing international crises (notably the war in Ukraine) have considerably changed the perception of current and future issues. The exit from fossil fuels and the issues of energy sovereignty have become a priority for public policies and a strategic issue for market players.

While energy sobriety, the renovation of buildings or even the exit from fossil fuels are widely addressed by public authorities, the tremendous potential of renewable energies at the scale of buildings is only partially mentioned and never considered as an important resource. of decarbonization, it is still an unthought, as such, of public policy. And, yet, the buildings all have roofs, basements, “lost” heat or cold (waste water, data center, computer room, energy recovery from ventilation, etc.), that is- that is to say, a largely underutilized energy potential.

An already proven “booster” method

Launched in 2020, the reuse booster aimed to accelerate the practice of reusing construction materials based on experimentation. Three years later, more than fifty project owners involved and more than 250 projects completed or in progress.

The “Booster” method which will be implemented as part of the ENR&R boost, consists of engaging a pilot group of pioneering companies who commit to acting directly on their own projects, to support them in the creation of tools and standards and to encourage the market to join it, in a virtuous circle. It is managed by A4MT (Action for Market Transformation).

An initiative based on cooperation and destined to grow

The ENR&R Booster is a coalition of project owners (investors, real estate companies, developers, etc.) but it will be open to any stakeholder wishing to contribute: engineering companies, start-ups, law firms, industrialists, organizations professionals will thus be able to make their contribution. He is already talking with sister initiatives. For example, he is one of the initiators, with AFILOG (association of logistics and industrial real estate professionals), of a major collective action within the framework of the University of the City of Tomorrow (UVD).

The objectives of the ENR&R booster

Each actor undertakes to:

• Share operational feedback with your peers in the implementation of ENR&R and capitalize on this know-how (maintenance constraints, contractual arrangements, financing, etc.)
• Generalize the assessment of local ENR&R potential in projects based on a common technical benchmark (ENRScore)
• Map the available solutions, better equip their requirements (typical specifications, legal and financial arrangements, etc.)
• Test on more than 50 projects (each booster commits 5 projects over 3 years) the maximum achievable.

Also partners of the project:

• The IFPEB (French Institute for Building Performance) which designed the ENRScore benchmark and which will bring to the public debate the operational lessons of the initiative.
• The OID (Sustainable Real Estate Observatory) which will develop a digital cartographic tool facilitating the assessment of ENR potential by relying on its digital platform “Resilience For Real Estate”.

This “Booster” is given 3 years to transform the real estate industry and systematize the integration of ENR&R into operations. This will involve working in collaboration with the teams and designers of the operations: architects, design offices, control offices, technical managers, companies and industrialists involved.

Key figures

Tertiary sector

• Tertiary buildings display only 4%* ENR&R rate at the national level
• 850 million m2, or 85%* of the park, are heated by non-renewable energy (natural gas, fuel oil, electricity, etc.)

Residential sector

• Residential has an ENR&R rate of 22%* but almost constant since 1990 and mainly linked to wood (mainly individual wood heating)
• 25,8 million homes, or 87%* of the stock, are heated by non-renewable energy (natural gas, fuel oil, electricity, etc.)

*Sources: CEREN (the Center for Economic Studies and Research on Energy), 2019, 2020, 2021

ENR&R potential of a building

We estimate that a building can achieve on average 40% ENR&R and up to 70% ENR&R under certain conditions on all its energy consumption (all uses).

These figures demonstrate the urgency of this collective action by the profession. The rate of local ENR&R could double by 2030 if the conditions are met, in any case this is the ambition of the ENR&R Booster.