Entry into force of the Housing Information Booklet: Issues, tools and implementation

What is it about ? Which accommodations are affected? What are the challenges for professionals? What changes for owners? What support tools?...: so many questions addressed during the QUALITEL – AJCAM webinar, led by Bertrand Leclercq, Managing Director of QUALITEL Espace Numérique du Logement, with the participation of Pierre Maillard, Chairman and CEO of the HELLIO group and Franck Calvar, CSR Manager of ICADE PROMOTION.

Housing Information Booklet: what is it?

The Housing Information Booklet aims to “facilitate and support work to improve the energy performance of housing, as well as the installation of control and active energy management equipment” [1].

Its implementation was mentioned in 2015, as part of the Energy Transition Law for the Green Crescent. It should finally come into force, within the framework of the Climate and Resilience law, at the beginning of 2023, for all types of individual and collective, private and social housing: all owners will have to establish, update and keep this Notebook during the construction of a dwelling or when carrying out energy renovation work. They must also send this Notebook to the new buyer when the property is sold.

What does the Housing Information Book contain?

QUALITEL and the Housing Information Booklet: involvement from the start of the project, a pioneering tool already in place

Since 1974, the QUALITEL Association has been advancing, alongside housing stakeholders, the quality of new and existing housing and participating in its promotion to users. As such, it participates in many working groups and develops practical tools for professionals and individuals.

In this context, from 2015, it actively participated in the work and reflections carried out around the future Housing Information Booklet. In 2017, she participated in its experimentation as part of the PTNB - Plan Transition Numérique dans le Bâtiment. In 2023, it will participate in the European program on the Digital Log Book for Buildings, led by the European Commission to develop the Housing Information Book in Europe.

[1] Construction and Housing Code – Article L126-35-2

[2] Affecting energy performance

Beyond this involvement in the project, experimentation and deployment of the Notebook, QUALITEL has also developed a pioneering tool in this area: CLÉA.

Initiated in 2010, completely redesigned in 2020, CLEA is aimed at individuals, to whom it provides information and services for the proper handling and proper use of housing, as well as maintaining its quality over time.

For the professional, CLÉA is also a practical advantage on a daily basis: set up as soon as the work begins, the digital solution offers a storage space for all project documents, a guide to predefined and customizable equipment, a module for monitoring consumption... Designed in this way, it also contributes to the quality of customer relations.

For Bertrand Leclercq, Managing Director of QUALITEL Espace Numérique du Logement: “At the same time facilitating tool, memory of the essential information of the house or the apartment, usable in new building as in renovation, CLÉA fully reflects what will be obligatory with the Housing Information Booklet. Already adopted by more than 150.000 housing units, CLÉA is proof that the usefulness of the Housing Information Booklet is undeniable and that its implementation can be easily supported. »

Housing Information Booklet, CLÉA...: the view of the actors

For Pierre Maillard, Chairman and CEO of the HELLIO group: “We regularly received requests from individuals or notaries wishing to find traces of work carried out. In this sense, CLÉA, the future QUALITEL Housing Information Booklet, is an effective response: above all, it will make it possible to keep this essential information on the improved performance of a dwelling over time. It is fundamental. The Housing Information Booklet and tools such as CLÉA, which already make it easy to meet this future obligation, are therefore steps in the right direction. These are additional opportunities to accelerate the massification of energy renovation. »

For Franck Calvar, CSR Manager of ICADE PROMOTION: “The future Housing Information Booklet is a useful tool for professionals and users alike. We have been able to observe this and experiment with it for several years with QUALITEL, in particular within the framework of our use of CLÉA. This allows us to respond to several important issues: as a promoter, it is for example an educational and transparency tool, at the service of customer relations. For our customers, it is in particular a vector of traceability of the real performance of their accommodation, which they will be able to consult, use and keep easily over time. In terms of heritage enhancement in particular, it is particularly interesting. »