PARTICIPATIVE DECISION-MAKING FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT RENOVATION AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

In European demonstration projects the main interest is in new technologies and in how tospread the application of best practices. Strategies to manage processes and to involvestakeholders are less developed. When technologies fail to have the calculated energyperformance, then occupant behaviour is mentioned as the unknown variable. Often theoccupants are viewed as a problem group rather than the starting point for innovations.It is possible to develop projects bottom up and to reach high performance qualitynonetheless. A strategic approach for a bottom up design process for new buildings andfor renovation projects will be presented. The information is based on discussions inworkshops with stakeholders in the EU supported Demohouse project.