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BIRTUOSS stands for Basque Integrated Renovation model (Opengela): enabling a fair, clean energy Transition through a Unique network of One-Stop-Shops.

At the same time as the network of Opengela offices is being extended to municipalities throughout the Basque Country, the BIRTUOSS project faces a number of challenges to refine and expand the regeneration model already in place. In addition, the Torreurizar neighbourhood in Bilbao is being used as a test bench to put progress into practice.

CHALLENGES

The challenges Opengela faces are:

Achieve a scalable model, which can be applied in as many places as possible, and without systematically needing public funding.
Address refurbishment from a more holistic point of view, taking into account not only energy efficiency, but also regeneration of public spaces, digitalisation, indoor air quality, energy communities, health and nature-based solutions, always putting people's quality of life at the centre.
Promote cooperation between actors who play a key role in renovation, e.g. architects, quantity surveyors, property managers, and construction, environment and ICT industries
Find common approaches and industrialised solutions, which help to reduce costs and implementation times.
Guide homeowners, especially the most vulnerable ones, to find new forms of financing with the aim of achieving a more inclusive society.
Broaden horizons and incorporate other types of buildings in the private residential sector, such as single-family homes or new housing and family models.
Promote the leadership role of residents in the rehabilitation process in order to replicate the community office model in other neighbourhoods.

PILOT NEIGHBOURHOOD

Opengela, besides having offices in numerous municipalities in the Basque Country, is developing a pilot project in Torreurizar in Bilbao, as part of the European BIRTUOSS project.

The project involves 25 buildings and 264 dwellings in a neighbourhood of great architectural value, designed by Ricardo Bastida in 1919. The neighbourhood office will experiment with different formulas in the social, economic and environmental fields, with an approach based on co-creation with the neighbourhood and with the aim to be scaled-up in the future to other cities not only in the Basque Country but also in Spain and Europe.

In addition to urban regeneration works, a 12-month employment and training plan is being developed for 12 long-term unemployed people from the neighbourhood.

It consists of training these people in digitisation and energy efficiency, who will then provide information and training to the neighbourhood in order to improve their relationship with the e-government and optimise their energy bills.

Programmes will also be implemented to restore the commercial activity of some of the 9 premises of Torreurizar.

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