CLIMABUILD
Climate-Responsive, Low-Carbon Pathways for a Resilient European Building Stock
CLIMABUILD advances climate-responsive, low-carbon and resilient pathways for Europe’s building stock, supporting the transition towards a climate-neutral, adaptive and inclusive built environment.
Call
HORIZON-CL5-2026-02-D4-03
Total Budget
€5 million
Duration
2026 – 2030 (48 months)
Coordinator
Prof Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis
The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, UCL
Building resilience and sustainability into Europe’s renovation transition
CLIMABUILD pioneers a replicable framework and inclusive digital ecosystem to accelerate deep renovation and climate resilience across Europe’s building stock. The project responds to urgent European priorities for a climate-neutral and adaptive built environment, integrating sustainability, resilience and stakeholder participation into practical pathways for building transformation.
At the core of CLIMABUILD is the novel Sustained Resilience method, which provides a new way to assess the ability of building stocks to balance short-term adaptive capacity, such as resilience to extreme weather events, with long-term sustainability objectives, including lifecycle carbon reduction and circularity.
The Sustained Resilience method
The Sustained Resilience approach addresses current policy and assessment gaps by connecting resilience and sustainability across spatial and temporal domains. It introduces a tiered lifecycle model that enables the normalisation of both resilience and sustainability indicators, supporting more informed decision-making for renovation, adaptation and investment.
Climate resilience
Assessment of building stock performance under extreme weather and multi-hazard conditions.
Lifecycle sustainability
Integration of lifecycle carbon, circularity and long-term environmental performance.
Decision support
Practical outputs for planners, engineers, municipalities, citizens and investors.
AI-enhanced digital twins for participatory renovation planning
AI-enhanced digital twins
CLIMABUILD reconfigures digital twins as participatory co-creation engines, connecting technical building data with scenario-based planning and stakeholder engagement.
VR/AR tools
Immersive visualisation tools translate complex technical information into accessible insights, helping stakeholders understand renovation options and their impacts.
Tiered dashboards
User-friendly dashboards support citizens, planners, engineers and municipalities with outputs adapted to their specific decision-making needs.
People-centred pathways for decarbonisation and resilience
Deep renovation
Supporting scalable renovation pathways across Europe’s building stock.
Low-carbon transition
Enabling lifecycle-based carbon reduction and circular construction strategies.
Multi-hazard resilience
Advancing threat-aware and threat-agnostic resilience for future climate conditions.
Policy-ready protocols
Providing benchmarks and protocols aligned with EU priorities and Built4People objectives.
Real-world validation across Europe
CLIMABUILD will be validated through a comprehensive real-world demonstration strategy across four countries, testing spatial, climatic and temporal service conditions. This validation will support representative benchmarks for safe, durable, inclusive and climate-resilient renovation.
