Current practice of renovation: Quantifying the baseline

As part of the "Drawing the baseline" FuturHist work package, this report presents the results of Task 1.5 -  “Quantifying the Baseline”. FuturHist project has set out to explore means of enhancing conservation and renovation practice. This document presents the findings of our inquiry, intended to gauge key metrics associated with this practice so that they may be improved upon.

The survey presents the results of a study on how historic buildings are currently being retrofitted and how to determine their performance in terms of energy and comfort. The study addresses issues of construction and the amount of waste generated, as well as the use phase of buildings in terms of cost efficiency and maintenance. In this report, we present our findings concerning current conservation and renovation practice as found in four European countries (Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK).

We have based our conclusions on a review of the literature, performing structured interviews with renovation project stakeholders as part of greater project-wide efforts, and examined multiple cases of renovation and energy retrofit projects that targeted historic buildings specifically in each country.