
Individual Refurbishment Roadmap
Instrument for high-quality, well-structured energy consultations

Goal: to provide high-quality and comprehensible consulting on energy issues and motivate owners to refurbish their buildings
Topics: Energy efficiency, Funding, Buildings, Redesigning buildings and areas
Runtime: since 2015
Our mission: Well-structured energy consultations
Every consultation on energy is individual. For years, the preparation of results, meetings, calculations and recommendations varied depending on the consultant.
The Individual Refurbishment Roadmap presents the results of the energy consultation in a standardised and easily understandable way for customers. It supports energy consultants in developing concepts for the step-by-step refurbishment or complete refurbishment of residential buildings.
The roadmap also offers the possibility of integrating individual measures into an overall concept for the building. This means that future refurbishment work is taken into account at the same time and a systematic step-by-step refurbishment can be carried out.
Our approach: Further development of the Individual Refurbishment Roadmap
dena developed an overall methodology for the Individual Refurbishment Roadmap between 2015 and 2017 in a consortium with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung, ifeu) and the Passive House Institute (Passivhaus Institut, PHI).
Since July 2017, the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle, BAFA) has been funding individual refurbishment roadmaps as part of the ‘Energieberatung für Wohngebäude’ (Energy consulting for residential buildings, EBW) funding programme. And since 2023, the Individual Refurbishment Roadmap has been the only type of report funded by this programme.
dena is continuously developing the Individualised Refurbishment Roadmap in order to:
- ensure that it is up to date,
- optimise user-friendliness and
- strengthen the quality of energy consultations.
The possibilities for digitalisation are currently being examined.

Our milestones
- The Individualised Refurbishment Roadmap has enabled the development and establishment of uniform (high-quality) standards for the results of in-depth energy consultations on the market throughout Germany.
- Since July 2023: funding is provided for energy consultations for residential buildings only if they are carried out by an expert from the list of energy efficiency experts and an individual renovation roadmap is drawn up.
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Let us know if we can help!
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Barbara Schroeder
Team Leader, Planning and consulting T: +49 30 66 777 - 655 barbara.schroeder(at)dena.de
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Odette Tubies
Senior Expert, Planning and consulting T: +49 30 66 777 - 645 odette.tubies(at)dena.de
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Lutz Badelt
Senior Expert, Planning and consulting T: +49 30 66 777 - 321 lutz.badelt(at)dena.de
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Oguzhan Tatar
Expert, Planning and consulting T: +49 30 66 777 - 812 oguzhan.tatar(at)dena.de
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Svenja Gutt
Expert, Planning and consulting T: +49 30 66 777 - 456 svenja.gutt(at)dena.de