Climate-smart housing association - how you can influence your tenant owners’ association!

Here you will find tips on how your tenant owners’ association can reduce its carbon footprint and energy consumption. In addition to having a lower climate footprint, it also makes your apartment block more attractive and resilient for the future.

• Install solar panels. Depending on the location of the roof, this is an investment that can pay off in 10-15 years. 
• Install chargers for electric vehicles to allow for flat owners to buy electric cars. 
• Install geothermal heating. It can be both an environmental and economic win, depending on the conditions of your particular house.  
• Improve insulation to lower energy consumption
• Introduce heat recovery in the ventilation system. .
• Switch to LED lighting. A 20-year-old lighting system uses four times more energy than a new one.
• Introduce sharing services like car and bike pools. 
• Make sure there are safe spaces to store bikes.
• Introduce individual hot water metering. There are several exciting solutions being developed. Start-up company Labtrino has developed a flow meter that can be installed without a plumber.
• Switch to a green electricity contract.
• Carry out an energy audit to review the building's energy use and how it can be improved.
• Make sure there's a recycling room in the building.