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On the innovation front, Barcelona is deploying its urban superpowers: transforming data into decisions, turning citizens into protagonists and disseminating solutions to drive large-scale decarbonized retrofitting.

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On the innovation front, Barcelona is deploying its urban superpowers: from the Mass Rehabilitation Viewer, which turns data into strategic decisions, to the Living Lab, which transforms citizens into active agents of change, to the dissemination of the Decarbonizing Rehabilitation Guide, designed to drive large-scale sustainable rehabilitation. These tools work together to transform the city, making it more efficient, resilient and future-proof.

Among its star weapons, the Mass Rehabilitation Viewer will allow a clear visualization of the state of Barcelona's housing stock, evaluating energy efficiency and construction quality. Based on a powerful database that integrates constructive, patrimonial, urban and social information, this viewer will be the strategic ally of technicians and public managers, guiding them in the planning of scalable and adaptable interventions throughout the city. At the same time, citizens will be able to know the state of their buildings, empowering them to make informed decisions and build a more sustainable future.

Alongside it, the Barcelona Living Lab will function as a laboratory where professionals, administration, organizations and citizens will join forces to streamline processes, reduce costs and optimize the experience of all participants, co-creating new user experiences that will accelerate decarbonized rehabilitation.

As a master charter, and as a continuation of Urbanew 1, the Guide to Innovative Solutions in Industrialized Rehabilitation will offer innovative and practical strategies aimed at decarbonization and adaptation to climate change. Through conferences, webinars and exchange spaces, this guide will allow all the actors involved to incorporate sustainable solutions in public and private projects in Barcelona, becoming a real tool for urban transformation.

7 Spanish cities

Seven Spanish cities have decided to act in response to the growing threat of climate change. Thus was born URBANEW, a mission driven by the Mission Cities to transform urban environments by rehabilitating what has already been built, reducing emissions and generating a new way of living in cities.

To make this possible, a network of Super-Technicians, professionals with extraordinary skills in sustainability, regeneration and energy efficiency, joined forces to shape replicable, high-impact solutions.

Today this movement is growing in Europe and beyond, and the legacy that the seven cities started continues.

Barcelona
Madrid
Seville
Valencia
Valladolid
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Zaragoza

Finance

This project: SGA-NZC-101121530-EMC³-Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council - Enabling Massive Change for Climate-neutral Cities (Spain, 2024-2026), is part of the Enabling City Transformation Programme, under the initiative 'Accelerating cities' transition to net zero emissions by 2030' - 'NetZeroCities', Grant Agreement No. 101121530.

Developed by NetZeroCities (EIT Climate-KIC), funded by the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) under powers delegated by the European Commission, within the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027).

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