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  • Digital solution makes building renovations easier for owners

    Digital solution makes building renovations easier for owners

    HEV cooperates with Scandens. Founded in 2021 as a spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich(ETH), the company launched software around a year and a half ago that makes it easier to plan and implement energy-efficient building renovations. Thanks to the cooperation with HEV Zurich, the Scandens software is now also available to private homeowners for the first time.

    Using the Scandens internet application, which is based on artificial intelligence, they can check whether and which renovation measures make economic and ecological sense. According to the company, the machine learning algorithms used were developed at ETH Zurich and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The software combines them with the latest energy modelling techniques for digital twins and official planning standards.

    According to a press release from Scandens, the software displays over 500 renovation combinations and creates a plan that serves as the basis for implementation. “Our mission is to increase renovation rates in Switzerland and actively support owners in increasing the value of their properties,” Scandens co-founder Diego Sigrist is quoted as saying.

    According to HEV Director Albert Leiser, the association wants to provide “a future-oriented and practical solution” with this offer: “With Scandens, we can offer our members a very well-founded digital planning aid that saves time and promotes sustainable decisions.”

  • Study on home ownership in Switzerland published

    Study on home ownership in Switzerland published

    Houzy, the Zurich-based platform for homeowners, has commissioned and published a recent study. According to a press release, the company wanted to collect data on the current and future behaviour of homeowners in Switzerland. Houzy surveyed 80,000 households online for the representative study. 1906 house and apartment owners answered the questionnaire from January to the end of March 2024. Three quarters of them were house owners and one quarter flat owners.

    The study focussed on the areas of renovation, heating and energy supply. It revealed that 69.4 per cent of all homeowners used tradesman services in the past year. The average order volume was CHF 15,000.

    In addition to renovations, the focus was also on alternative heating systems. 5 per cent of homeowners plan to modernise their heating systems and find alternatives to fossil fuels in 2024. At the same time, 33.5 per cent of households that still use oil and 8.85 per cent of those that use gas want to change their heating systems. One tenth of Swiss homeowners are planning to install solar panels this year in order to produce at least some of the electricity they need themselves.

    Another focus was on intentions to sell residential property. A seventh of the homeowners surveyed expressed such intentions. of these, 20 per cent would still like to sell their home in 2024. Extrapolated, this means that 3.2 per cent of all houses and flats in Switzerland will come onto the market this year, according to the press release.