Renovation of your Paris apartment
Renovation refers to the process of improving the condition of a building or one its elements using new materials or replacing obsolete or damaged parts. Most often it is a new construction after total demolition. This demolition postpones the renovation of the restoration, restoration to the initial state, and rehabilitation, which aims to reopen a closed place, or open but not to the most recent standards. Sometimes renovation is part of a restructuring or conversion plan.

It can be a district or a city; we then speak of urban renewal (with in France a National Agency for Urban Renewal (ANRU) or urban renewal, possibly in the context of the city rebuilt on itself to limit peri-urbanization and its harmful environmental and land effects.

A well-thought-out and well-conducted renovation can considerably improve the energy efficiency of a building (even make it energy positive, and possibly integrate a biodiversity/carbon sink dimension and adaptation to climate change. But it is also a source of materials, energy, water and waste that can be more or less well managed. Promotelec created a new “Responsible Renovation Label” in mid-2017 to promote the reduction of carbon emissions from building operations. It also completed the label “E+C positive Energy and Carbon Reduction Label”, which considers the carbon impact on new construction.