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Renovation Strategy Explorer (RSE)

Introduction

The Renovation Strategy Explorer (RSE) is the ReLIFE tool intended for policymakers, urban planners, researchers, and public authorities working on regional or national renovation strategy analysis.

Unlike the HRA and PRA, which focus on individual buildings or portfolios, the RSE is intended for strategic planning at a larger scale. Its goal is to help users explore how different renovation strategies could affect energy use, investment needs, and emissions across a city, region, or country.

For users who are new to ReLIFE, the key idea is that the RSE is designed to support scenario comparison for policy and planning decisions rather than detailed building-by-building project execution. It is meant to help stakeholders compare alternative strategies and communicate expected impacts in a structured way.

Important

Current runtime status: the RSE is not implemented as an analysis workflow yet. The platform currently exposes a landing page only (with "Coming Soon" messaging). No RSE runtime API calls are executed in the current web UI.

Current Availability

What exists today in the web UI:

  • A public RSE landing page (/strategy-explorer)
  • Informational content about planned capabilities
  • A disabled "Coming Soon" call to action
  • The same current behavior for anonymous and signed-in users

What does not exist yet in the current runtime path:

  • RSE data input forms
  • Interactive strategy workflow
  • Forecasting/Financial/Technical API orchestration for RSE
  • RSE results dashboards and exports

Planned Methodology (Target Design)

The workflow below reflects the intended RSE direction based on D3.2 and design materials. It is not the current runtime behavior.

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    A[User selects<br/>country/region] --> B[Technical Service<br/>analyzes building stock]
    B --> C[Forecasting Service<br/>simulates measures]
    C --> D[Financial Service<br/>calculates indicators]
    D --> E[Technical Service<br/>synthesizes results]
    E --> F[/Regional projections<br/>& visualizations/]
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Planned Inputs (Future)

The RSE is expected to work with building-stock level inputs rather than individual-building definitions. Planned configuration inputs may include:

Planned parameter Description
Country / Region Geographic scope of the analysis
Renovation target volume Share or number of buildings to renovate
Time horizon Target horizon for the strategy
Intervention distribution Phasing of renovation measures over time

These inputs and their exact UI representation are subject to change during implementation.

Planned Outputs (Future)

The RSE is expected to provide aggregated policy-oriented outputs such as:

Planned output Description
Investment requirements Aggregate capital needs by strategy/scenario
Energy savings Energy reduction estimates at building-stock level
Emissions impact CO2-related projections and comparisons
EPC distribution trends Changes in EPC classes across the stock
Strategy comparison views Side-by-side comparison of policy scenarios

Note

None of the outputs above are currently generated by the RSE route in the live web UI runtime. They are documented here as planned functionality.

Planned User Workflow (Future)

Once implemented, a typical RSE session is expected to include:

  1. Select geographic scope (country/region).
  2. Configure renovation strategy assumptions.
  3. Review building-stock baseline analysis.
  4. Compare strategy scenarios and projected impacts.
  5. Export results for policy communication and planning.

How To Cite

Please refer to the How To Cite section on the Welcome Page.

Authors And Reviewers

For further information, please check the revisions page of this page.

License

The ReLIFE open source projects are licensed under the EUPL-1.2 license. Please check each repository for project-specific details.

Acknowledgement

This work is carried out within the ReLIFE project and is co-funded by the European Union (CINEA) under Grant Agreement No. 101167067.

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither the European Union nor CINEA can be held responsible for them.

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