DELPHIS, a cluster of competences for the Habitat
Identifying the best professional practices and fostering them is an objective of the DELPHIS membres since the creation of the association.
Since 1992, we have upheld those ambitions at the European level through our active participation in Community Initiative Programs (some of which are presented below).
In 2006, DELPHIS’ european vision led to the foundation of EURHONET, an association which brings to its members an actual European comparative expertise, and thus amplifies the local impact of our activities.
http://www.eurhonet.eu
- Examples of European projects held by DELPHIS
More than 120 millions of inhabitants all over Europe live in 35 million units of the social housing stock. This represents around 18% of the total final energy consumption in the European Union today.
The improvement of energy performance in social housing can only be achieved through progressive retrofitting of the social housing stock. This requires social housing operators, who own and/or manage the buildings, to integrate and plan the reduction of energy consumptions in the long-term strategic management of their housing assets.
Even if the will to reduce the ecological print of the social housing sector is widely spread, the decision-making support tools for energy strategy are lacking. That is why ESAM project aims to develop methods and tools that will help social housing operators to define and implement a energy policy thanks to the assessment of energy retrofitting scenarios.
ESAM gathers 15 partners from 6 countries from the European Union. Supported by the European Commission through the Intelligence Energy Europe program, the project is based on the principle of strong national partnerships between scientists specialised in energy issues and field operators.
http://www.esamproject.org
More than 120 millions Europeans live in 35 million social housing dwellings. This represents around 18% of the total final energy consumption in the EU.The improvement of energy performance in social housing can only be achieved through progressive retrofitting of the existing housing stock. Most European countries have experimented innovations in the legislation of social housing and in the professional practices of the social housing operators (SHO’s). Nevertheless, there remain obstacles to an efficient management of energy in social housing. Professional unions of SHO’s are willing to research the solutions existing in other EU countries and to work on the transfer and the development of new institutional frameworks for the management of energy in social housing.
The TACKOBST proposal, led by a consortium of professional unions of SHOs’ from 4 countries, aims at developing proposals and methodologies which could help the main stakeholders (State, local authorities, associations of occupiers, energy suppliers) to withdraw these obstacles and enable SHO’s to implement energy efficient retrofitting.
The results of the project will contribute to build competence and knowledge on energy efficient retrofitting among European social housing operators.
http://www.tackobst.eu
The mission of European social and public housing companies is to build and manage dwellings for the population, whether for all, or specifically for low income households. The context in which they are achieving this mission is continuously changing.
As other sectors, ours will have to face the issues of the global warming, the ageing of the population, and the rising of the expectations of corporate transparency. More than other sectors, ours will be confronted to the emergent requests from local authorities, which have taken over the central States’ role for the housing competence. It will also have to answer new demands from the tenants which characteristics and needs are changing (impoverishment, immigration…).
In order to anticipate these evolutions, and the consequences on their strategies and activities, EURHONET companies are working together.
They imagine how they can adapt their organisations to the coming changes and build up innovation projects.To draw a deeper analysis of the consequences of changes and the necessary innovations concerning their staff’s skills, they created a common project called “TRaining in HOusing Companies” (TRHOC).
http://www.eurhonet.eu
The ageing of the european population entails actually an important groth of demands of adaptations and the reinforcement of services by the Social/Public Housing companies.
These demands oblige the social owners to reconsider their role and to implement an offer of personnalised services, going from a reinforced service of proximity to the implementation of new services around the dwelling.Acting for the stay at home of the ederly, social owners become entire actors in the process of ageing. In a preventive approach, they act as an interface between the elderly and the social and care structures, engaging by this way a strong partnership with medical and care’s net.
For the personnel of the social/public Housing Companies, it means that they have to know how to cooperate with their partners in order to be able to detect the situations of risks and to alert the relevant actors. A training programme is consequently necessary.
e-IRFPP project, for training all the personnels to their new missions by e-blending:
In classroom : thanks to two complementary training modules, the personnel can learn about ageing and stay at home policy issues. Classroom is also a good opportunity to exchange professional knowledges, notably with partners.
On the e-platform: the content of the training sessions is completed by a library of european and national good examples and by e-exercices on the e-learning’s space.
http://www.e-irfpp.org
EI-Education project is developing an education programme and a guidebook for social housing companies, municipalities and other housing stock owners to enable them to perform energy intelligent. The education programme consists in a “mixed learning” – confrontation education as well as e-learning and case studies, based on a common platform on the internet with guidebook and e-learning programmes.The guidebook presents 60 best practice examples from all over Europe, giving solutions on technical, financial and organisational issues. EI-Education is a SAVE program project of 2 years (01/06 -12/07), coordonated by Cenergia from Denmark, and bringing together partners from Austria, Bulgaria , The Netherlands, Slovenia and France (CSTB and DELPHIS).
