Sustainable renovation of non residential buildings, a response to lowering the environmental impact of the building sector in Europe

Building renovation is a real opportunity to meet current challenges of primary energy reduction and global warming. But it is not sufficient in terms of sustainable development and sustainable retrofitting of buildings.
Sustainable building renovation is primarily an opportunity to improve comfort, wellbeing and quality of life of users while lowering environmental impact of buildings. This contribution, studied in one of the subtasks in IEA SHC Task 47 - Solar Renovation of Non-Residential Buildings – Subtask D; "Environmental and Health Impact Assessment ", aims to broaden the vision of designers and building owners to other environmental and health issues in the context of advanced renovation of non residential buildings.