plasticsEurope Launches the project ‘Everest' for the promotion of the rehabilitation of houses

plasticsEurope, association that represents to the European manufacturers of plastic raw materials, has set up the project Everest through the cual pretends to boost the rehabilitation of the residential sector in Spain. The main aim of this ambitious project is to identify the main barriers that hamper at present the rehabilitation of houses and design the strategies to demolish them. Of this way pretends contribute to the dinamización of an especially punished sector by the crisis in our country and whose activity has fallen almost 50% from 2007.

This project will execute in pilot format in the Community of Madrid during the two next years. To the light of the results will study his implementation in other Autonomous Communities from 2016. As first step, plasticsEurope is carrying out a study partner-economic of the metropolitan area of Madrid. With the results of this study and considering the barriers that have determined , will define the area of pilot “performance” of Everest. The second step will be to design the strategies to boost the rehabilitation through the manufacturing of some practical guides for consumers and executors of works.

In the stage of the implementation, plasticsEurope will create and will lead a multidisciplinary consortium involving to the chain of value of the construction that will act like centre of providers for potential works of rehabilitation. Thanks to this project, the association pretends to add to the different initiatives that exist to promote the sector of the rehabilitation of houses and boost that they are more accessible, healthy, safe and efficient energetically.

In statements of Manuel Fernández, general director of plasticsEurope in the Iberian region, “the energetic renewal of buildings stimulates the economy and limits the energetic dependency of our country. In concrete, the plastic products used in the renewal of the residential sector offer, along all his useful life, important energetic savings. Besides, the plastic materials diminish the broadcasts of CO₂ helping to the protection of the climate. From the point of view of the final user, these same savings translate in economic savings in the bills of the families, in addition to the increase in comfort, accessibility and hygiene that provide said products”.

At present exist in Spain more than 25 million houses, of which the half have more than 30 years and a fourth part more than 50 years. The residential sector Spanish consumes 17% of all the power of the country and is responsible of 20% of the broadcasts of gases of effect invernadero. In this sense Manuel Fernández also stands out that “in Spain exist 10 million houses built before 2001 that they could be transformed in houses of low consumption. This would comport the creation of 150.000 places of work between 2014 and 2050 and equivalent savings to 390.000 million euros in energetic efficiency and rights of broadcast”.