The Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) is tendering a research project "Property and Climate Protection Data for Social Facilities." It aims to collect nationwide representative data on the building stock of social service providers within the BMAS’s area of responsibility, estimate the financing needs for investments, and analyze practical administrative hurdles.
Social service providers have a very large building stock, which is often described by them as outdated and in urgent need of renovation. The legally anchored climate target of net greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045 makes it necessary to renovate these buildings by then so that they no longer emit CO2. Furthermore, the new Building Modernization Act sets minimum efficiency standards for non-residential buildings that must also be met. Finally, these buildings, in which particularly vulnerable groups often spend extended periods, must be prepared for the effects of climate change, especially against heat.
So far, there are no sufficiently reliable bundled data on building condition and renovation rates—also due to the lack of a comprehensive building register. It is not clear how many buildings exist, how large and old they are, when they were last extensively renovated, what type of heating is used, or whether the building is rented or owned by the users. The research project aims to close these gaps for the BMAS’s area of responsibility and derive a financing need for investments from this.
In addition to missing information on the scope of renovation and adaptation needs, there is a lack of knowledge about the specific hurdles and challenges regarding the administration and financing of renovations. Therefore, the issue will also be examined of how payers assess the cost-effectiveness of various investment measures by social service providers in practice and which measures are thus implementable. As a final step, a concept for the institutionalization of data collection will be presented to monitor renovation progress in the future.
The German Bundestag has called on the federal government to improve the data and information basis regarding the aforementioned questions.
A suitable and efficient methodology is to be proposed by the contractor. Various approaches seem conceivable, such as representatively designed quantitative and qualitative surveys among social service providers and payers, but also approaches using automated geo-based data collection (e.g., building twins based on official data).
The project is to start immediately after contract award (expected in April 2027), and the final results of the research project shall be available no later than after 14 months.
Please note the attached tender documents.
LOT-0000
ZVS-04812-1/93
Research Project on Property and Climate Protection Data for Social Facilities (LuKS).
The Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) is tendering a research project "Property and Climate Protection Data for Social Facilities." It aims to collect nationwide representative data on the building stock of social service providers within the BMAS’s area of responsibility, estimate the financing needs for investments, and analyze practical administrative hurdles.
Social service providers have a very large building stock, which is often described by them as outdated and in urgent need of renovation. The legally anchored climate target of net greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045 makes it necessary to renovate these buildings by then so that they no longer emit CO2. Furthermore, the new Building Modernization Act sets minimum efficiency standards for non-residential buildings that must also be met. Finally, these buildings, in which particularly vulnerable groups often spend extended periods, must be prepared for the effects of climate change, especially against heat.
So far, there are no sufficiently reliable bundled data on building condition and renovation rates—also due to the lack of a comprehensive building register. It is not clear how many buildings exist, how large and old they are, when they were last extensively renovated, what type of heating is used, or whether the building is rented or owned by the users. The research project aims to close these gaps for the BMAS’s area of responsibility and derive a financing need for investments from this.
In addition to missing information on the scope of renovation and adaptation needs, there is a lack of knowledge about the specific hurdles and challenges regarding the administration and financing of renovations. Therefore, the issue will also be examined of how payers assess the cost-effectiveness of various investment measures by social service providers in practice and which measures are thus implementable. As a final step, a concept for the institutionalization of data collection will be presented to monitor renovation progress in the future.
The German Bundestag has called on the federal government to improve the data and information basis regarding the aforementioned questions.
A suitable and efficient methodology is to be proposed by the contractor. Various approaches seem conceivable, such as representatively designed quantitative and qualitative surveys among social service providers and payers, but also approaches using automated geo-based data collection (e.g., building twins based on official data).
The project is to start immediately after contract award (expected in April 2027), and the final results of the research project shall be available no later than after 14 months.
Please note the attached tender documents.