8 steps to a renovated building
Introduction
- Initial conversation and site assessment, opportunity analysis.
- Preparation of handout materials with data on renovated buildings, owners’ options, and experience stories.
- Participation in an activist group meeting or homeowners’ general meeting.
Preparation
- Formation of the association.
- Decision by the homeowners’ association.
- Preparation of the work overview — work assignment for the technical documentation developers.
- Selection of technical documentation providers (energy audit, technical inspection, technical project).
- Formalisation of the board decision.
- Securing funding support to cover payments for technical documentation.
Design
- Building technical inspection
- Preparation of the energy certificate and provisional energy certificate
- Preparation of the design brief (based on the information included in the building technical inspection report and the energy auditor’s recommendations, the initial work assignment is supplemented and the design brief is prepared for the selected architectural firm)
- Development of the construction project, design meetings, discussion of proposed solutions and materials
Financing acquisition
- Identification of current possible and most suitable sources of funding:
- Local government support programmes;
- European Union co-financing support programmes.
- Identification of loan opportunities:
- Commercial banks;
- Altum programmes.
- Preparation of loan applications, coordination of other necessary documents, adhering to the funders’ conditions.
Procurement and contracts
- Organisation of procurement tenders and price inquiries (selection of contractors for construction works, author supervision, construction supervision, and project management service providers).
- Preparation of documents ensuring compliance with funders’ requirements to receive support (grants, capital discount, co-financing).
Project implementation
- Preparation and signing of contracts between construction participants (main contractor, design supervision, construction supervision, client) and funders.
- Management of the project implementation process.
- Coordination of cooperation among construction participants.
- Evaluation of project solution changes, coordination with funders, preparation of contract amendments.
- Ensuring document flow and managing document circulation within the ALTUM system.
- Monitoring compliance with deadlines and obligations set out in contracts with funders and the project.
Commissioning – Final report
- Verification of project implementation compliance.
- Review of final documentation, submission to ALTUM and the funder.
- Communication with ALTUM and funders, providing explanations regarding the project process and as-built documentation until the receipt of the conclusion from ALTUM.
Warranty and aftercare services
- Selection of the insurance company for the common property.
- Allocation of project costs to individual apartments, differentiation of individual expenses.
- Preparation of the building inspection report during the warranty period or upon defect detection.
- Cost allocation to properties, recalculation in case of early loan repayment.
