RenoDat Awarded Under NWO Digitalisation of Energy Renovations Call

Description

Led by Angela Greco as Principal Investigator, with core contributions from Henk Visscher and Giorgio Agugiaro (Urbanism), RenoDat brings together 20+ partners and is backed up by a €2.47 million budget.

RenoDat addresses the fragmented, opaque, and often absent use of building data in renovation processes. RenoDat’s consortium proposes to develop a Building Renovation Passport in an ethical and socially inclusive manner, focusing on preventing unintended consequences associated with managing large housing datasets, particularly risks to vulnerable households. The project aims to boost data literacy among homeowners –supporting informed consent practices– and professionals, while streamlining construction workflows and cutting carbon emissions through a standardized ethical data infrastructure for Renovation Passports.

At MBE, we’ll hire a PhD to work on learning labs to upskill the current and future workforce—tackling labour shortages—and a Postdoc to design incentives and business models for data sharing across the renovation value chain. Their efforts will connect closely with two additional PhDs (at VU, TUD, together with Hanze, and THUAS) focusing on behavioural change and data infrastructure.