With 75% of the EU building stock energy inefficient, a strong increase in deep renovation rates is crucial to achieve carbon neutrality
by 2050. Although significant efforts have been made in the past decade to develop effective solutions and tools, current renovation
rates of 0.2% per year must increase 15 times to meet the EU goals. Fragmentation in conventional building processes and knowledge
gaps between actors hinder innovation and large renovations uptake, in a market reluctant to go beyond the Business-as-usual.
FABRICKs aims to accelerate the deep renovation of the built environment across the EU by streamlining processes for timely,
sustainable, and resource-efficient design activities and works, supported by digital technologies. Its main objective is to stimulate a
strong knowledge sharing among the process actors, driving the development of a modular, user-centered, and collaborative
renovation service, able to fuel the construction sector with circular oriented value resources, tools and practices. For this purpose,
FABRICKs is designed to serve like a circular “tube line” connecting existing workflows and actors by six permanent exchange nodes,
or “stations”, which act as dynamic tanks where each key stakeholder can contribute or benefit from in a proactive way, depending on
their profile. This should enable win-win collaborations, with end-users benefitting from more informed and targeted decisionmaking,
as well as value for money enabled by a transparent, traceable and streamlined process, and market operators from the
possibility to offer enhanced services and solutions with increased competitiveness as a payback. Along the Line, the market delivery
of renovation solutions, high-quality installations, and user comfort, are enhanced by an integrated set of digital tools, which also
enable resource efficiency and life-cycle management across the entire workflow, while engaging all the key stakeholders through
synergistic matchmaking opportunities.