Conferences

 


Conference “Living the Future - Housing, sustainable cities and EU cohesion policy after 2013” - 18 May 2010, Brescia, Italy

>Presentation of projects financed by Structural Funds in the field of energy efficiency in housing:
- Mr David Morrall, East of England Development Agency (UK)
- Mr Georges Bullion, Dynacité (France)

>Examples of what can be achieved at large scale: from pilot projects to ambitious programs:
- Mr Wim Ellenbroek, The Borneo Initiative (The Netherlands)
- Mr Michele Piccardi, Coop La Famiglia and Mr Andrea Mafezzoni, Metra (Italy)
- Mr Luca Federici, Ater Perugia (Italy)

>Examples of sustainable urban renewal strategy: from the local authority’s perspective:
- Mr Massimo Azzini,The District Contract of San Polo in Brescia (Italy)
- Mr Manfred Sydow (GdW), Operation under the Social City program in Bremen (Germany)

>Examples of sustainable urban renewal strategies: from the housing organization’s perspective:
- Mr Georges Bullion, Dynacité (France) Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

>Cases and reflection on local development: the lessons from URBACT:
- Mr Philip Stein, URBACT - Paper - Presentation




Conference “Housing and the Energy of the future: the Structural Funds in action” - 22 June 2009, Brussels, Belgium

>Opening Speech
- Dirk Ahner, European Commission, DG REGIO

>Cohesion Policy support for Sustainable Energy: The ERDF Amendment
- Beth Masterson, European Commission, DG REGIO

>Regional Development Agency in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region
- Paula Shelley, Yorkshire Forward

>Urb-Energy Project: Energy Efficient and Integrated Urban Development Action
- Britta Schmigotzki, IWO - Housing Initiative for Eastern Europe




Project TACKOBST - Tackling Obstacles in Social Housing - 29 May 2009, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

>Project TACKOBST - Institutional and legal issues
- Hervé des Lyons, USH

>Project TACKOBST - Technical and economic issues
- Ingrid Vogler, GdW

>Project TACKOBST - Social and cultural issues
- Anna Pozzo, Federcasa 




Conference "Social & Cooperative Housing fighting Climate Change" - 27 May 2009, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

>Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Social & Cooperative Housing
- Nils Larsson - Executive Director,International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment ( iiSBE)

>Supporting the energy transition in the housing sector: the EIB contribution
- Ralf Goldmann, Energy specialist, EIB - European Investment Bank
 
>Social Housing and energy efficiency: the CEB contribution
- Apolonio Ruiz-Ligero, Vice-Governor, CEB - Council of Europe Development Bank

>Carbon offset revenue for retrofitting
- Brian Emmott, Member of the UNECE Real Estate Market Advisory Group

>Reducing the energy consumption of residents through behavioural change - an overview of initiatives
- Ana Cristina Martín & Benito and Andreas Huber, BewarE Project

>AEDES & Dutch Tenants Union working in partnership for a carbon makeover
- Albert Koedam, Aedes, Holland

>Empowering residents as Energy Experts to bring about a grass roots shift in behaviour
- Niina Savolainen, VVO, Finland

>Municipal Social Housing Organisations cut energy use in Italy
- Marco Corradi, Federcasa, Italy

>UK Housing Association maps out green path
- Paul Ciniglio & Aniko Dobi-Rozsa, Radian Housing Association, member of NHF, UK

>Local project: Flats for elderly people
- Gabriel Golom Mapelman & Ángel Hevia Antuña, IBAVI, Spain




UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) - CECODHAS joint activities
"First Workshop on Energy Efficiency in Housing" - 21-22 April 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria

>The potential of green employment in the construction sector
- Edmundo Werna, Building specialist, ILO - International Labour Organization

>Greening workplaces through workers involvement
- David Arnold, Policy Officer, UNISON - The public service trade union

>Emission Trading Scheme and Energy Efficiency
- Sanjeev Kumar, EU ETS coordinator, WWF European Policy Office

>European Investment Bank's strategy on energy efficiency in the built environment
- Barbara Lemke, Projects Directorate, EIB - European Investment Bank

>Project SErENADE - Sharing Expertise in Energy Advice across Europe
- Catrin Maby, Director, Severn Wye Energy Agency

>The involvement of local actors and citizens in achieving energy efficiency 
- Gérard Magnin, Executive Director, Energie-Cités

>Housing as Power Plants: Solar Energy Feeding back to grid
- Christian Vodermayer, CEO, BEC-Engineering

>Project "Les Héliades" - Construction of 30 energy positive dwellings in Saint-Dié-Des-Vosges
- Jean-Marc Gremmel, Director, Le Toit Vosgien (French Social Housing Organisation)

>Construction of 22 energy self-sufficient homes in Saint-Dié-Des-Vosges
- Jean-Marc Gremmel, Director, Le Toit Vosgien (French Social Housing Organisation)

>Conclusions
- John Hontelez, Secretary General, EEB - The European Environmental Bureau




Conference “Energy efficiency in housing: EU tools to unlock the potential” - 9 December 2008, Brussels

>EU Energy Policy for Buildings: Recast EPBD proposed
- Martin Elsberger, European Commission, DG TREN

>Establishment of a reference building to implement the EPBD
- Ingrid Vogler, GdW - Germany

>Energy efficient construction and retrofitting of social housing in the city of Ljubljana
- Tonka Grgic, The Public Housing Fund of the Municipality of Ljubljana, Slovenia

>Key output of the IEE Project “ESAM”
- Hans Fürst, Nassauische Heimstätte Wohnungs, Germany

>Energy efficiency in social housing: Importance of tenants’ behaviour
- Luc Stijnen, Zonnige Kempen, Belgium

>Agreements between social landlords and tenants organisations
- Barbara Klomp, Nederlandse Woonbond, The Nederlands

>Tenants’ input in the energy-efficiency debate
- Barbara Steenberger, IUT - International Union of Tenants

>Energy efficiency and consumers
- Kyriakos Gialoglou, European Commission, DG SANCO

>Overview of EU Policies Linked to Energy Efficiency
- Arianna Vitali Roscini, WWF European Policy Office

>Waking a sleeping giant: Improving energy efficiency in social housing
- Patrick Lambert, EACI - The Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation

>Norwegian law to have binding standard of oil-free construction in the next 5 years
- Sindre Samsing, Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, Norway
 
>Policies to implement the EPBD: Overview of national strategies
- Ursula Hartenberger, RICS - The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

>Key output of the IEE Project “InoFIN”: How to finance refurbishment?
- Georg Wagener-Lohse, InoFin Project Manager, Germany

>The untapped potential of structural funds: The Polish example
- Andrzeij Rajkiewicz, Deputy Director - NAPE, Poland

>Making the most of owner’s small financing capacity
- Dagnija Blumberga, Technical University of Riga, Latvia

>Energy Performance of Buildings: The Hungarian experience
- Erzsebet Beliczay, Clean Air Action Group, Hungary

>Buildings and energy efficiency: French tools and policies
- Sophie Le Garrec, Ministry for ecology, energy, land settlement and sustainable development, France

>Energy Efficiency and what to expect from recast EPBD
- Roman Portužák, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Czech Republic

>Conclusions
- Paul-Louis Marty, CECODHAS - The European Liaison Committee for Social Housing
- John Hontelez, EEB - The European Environmental Bureau




Conference "Sustainable Energy and Social Housing " - 21/22 April 2008, Ancona, Italy

>Introductory speech
-Marco Giardini, Chairman of the Cecodhas working group on Energy and Sustainable
Urban Development  

>Cecodhas’ strategy on energy efficiency and social protection of final users in the Social Housing sector
- Paul-Louis Marty, President of CECODHAS

>European energy sustainability, policies for energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources
- Eduardo Maldonado, Coordinator of the Buildings Concerted Action (CA) for the
Transposition of the Energy Performance Buildings Directive (EPBD)

>EU policies for a Sustainable Energy: objectives and strategies
- Pirjo-Liisa Koskimäki, Head of Unit D.4 Energy Efficiency, DG TREN, European Commission

>City planning and sustainable urban development
- Simone Ombuen, Inu, National Institute of Urbanism

>Review of Cecodhas Member Energy Profiles. Strategies, Obstacles & Incentives for energy improvement in Europe’s Social Housing Stock
- Sorcha Edwards, Alice Pittini, Cecodhas Secretariat & Cecodhas Social Housing Observatory

>Economic and environmental budget of the energetic refurbishment of the buildings
- Juan Rubio De Val, Spanish Association of Public Promoters for Social Housing and Land (AVS), ES

>Energetic refurbishment: Tools to manage choices, Factor 4 Project
- Roberto Fabbri, Ancab-Legacoop and Angelo Mingozzi, Ricerca e Progetto (Bologna, IT)

>Innovative and tailored Financing Schemes for Social Housing Refurbishment in an Enlarged Europe: Inofin Project
- Georg Wagener-Lohse, CEBra - Centre for Energy Technology Brandenburg GmbH, D

>Residential stock analysis and management strategies: Epi-SoHo Project results
- Iris Behr, Institut Wohnen und Umwelt, D

>The liberalization of energy markets: risks and opportunities
- Allan Asher, Chief Executive, Energywatch, UK

- Guido Bortoni, DG Market, Energy Authority, IT

>Fuel poverty in Europe
- Mauro Brolis, Representative of the European Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency (EPEE) Project, IT

>Examples of work of Social Housing operators in tackling fuel poverty
- Consumption control and participation, Yann Sauvée, Moulin Habitat, FR

- North Ireland: fuel poverty and saving strategies, Noel Rice, NIHE

>Intelligent Energy Europe Programme & Social Housing projects
- Paula Cadima, European Agency for Competitiveness & Innovation

>Rosh-Project Results: Retrofitting of Social Housing - Experiences in Germany, Austria, Ireland, Poland, Italy & Bulgaria
- Gabi Schlichtmann, target GmbH, D

>SHE (Sustainable Housing Europe) project for sustainable building
- Alain Lusardi, Federabitazione-Confcooperative, IT

>Sustainable community project in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland
- David Stewart, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, UK

>Sustainable urban renewal
- Maurizio Urbinati, Erap Ancona, IT

>Generation Homes - Achieving 75% carbon reduction in housing refurbishment
- Paul Ciniglio, Radian Group, UK




Conference "Housing and the European Energy Transition" - 30 January 2008, Brussels

>Report of the conference

>Opening speech (Fr)
- Paul Louis Marty, President of CECODHAS

>Role of the European Parliament (audio file)
- Claude Turmes MEP, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance

>The role of cities in reaching energy saving targets in the social housing sector
- Wolfgang Förster, City of Vienna, Austria

>Tenant Participation in Sustainable Social Housing
- Michel Gilbert, OPAC 38, France

>Facing the sustainable energy challenge in New Member States
- Jana Drápalová, Brno, Czech Republic

>Summary of detected deterrents to reaching target savings in Europe’s Housing
- Ingrid Vogler, German Housing and Real Estate Federation (GdW), Germany

>Fuel poverty in the UK, Policy approach in Northern Ireland
- Noel Rice, NIHE, Northern Ireland 

>WoonEnergie, ensuring fair energy prices for citizens in the Netherlands
- Albert Koedam, AEDES, The Netherlands 

 Conference "Energy Services 2007 - Moving Ahead!" - 22 November 2007, Brussels

>Energy Services in Europe – Moving Ahead
- Karl Kellner, Directorate D, DG Energy and Transport

>Promoting Energy Efficiency and Energy Services
- Olaf Weber, Head of Unit Environment, KfW Bankengruppe

>EUROCONTRACT – European Platform for Energy Performance Contracting, Key Results
- Michael Geißler, Managing Director, Berliner Energieagentur GmbH

>Market Development and the Role if the ESCO Industry - a reflection
- Gunnar Liehr, Vice President – Head Europe, Energy and Environmental Solutions, Siemens Building Technologies




Workshop "Training for energy efficiency - know-how from & for social housing organisations" - 1 October 2007, Brussels

>Training needs and interests of social housing organisations
- Sorcha Edwards, CECODHAS

>European projects supporting social housing organisations in energy efficiency & the challenge for social housing organisations to respond to new regulations arising from EU policies
- Paula Cadima, European Commission, Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation

>The EI-Education project and its main results
- Elsebeth Terkelsen, AAA

>Energy intelligent retrofitting of social housing - the EI Guidebook
- Henk Kaan, ECN, NL

>EI- Guide book (english version)
 
>Training initiatives & successful retrofitting of social housing - practical examples from around Europe
- Mikael Grinda Rasmussen, Boligselskabernes Landsorganisation & Peder Vejsig Pedersen, Cenergia, Denmark
- Christiane Egger, O.Ö. Energiesparverband & Ingrid Domenig-Meisinger, Architect, Austria
- Dominique Caccavelli, CSTB & Chloé Mariette, Delphis, France
- Marjana Sijanec Zavrl, ZRMK & Ljubljana Housing Fund, Slovenia

>Supporting & involving tenants in energy efficiency
- Social housing tenants act to combat climate change', Dirk Knapen, BBLv, Flanders, Belgium
- Energy advice for tenants, Evelina Stoykova, Sofia Energy Centre, Bulgaria
- Influencing user behaviour of tenants in 5 European countries', Andreas Karner, KWI, Austria