Cerri (president of the Order of Engineers of Rome):“These are the objectives of the European directive on Green Homes”

"Not adapting your home to higher performing energy classes will cause the property itself to lose market value"

ROME – “We are dealing with the so-called European 'Green Houses' directive, which concerns both public and private buildings and provides that zero emissions will be achieved by 2050, in order to respect the environment.There will be a further definition meeting in March but intermediate steps are planned to achieve this objective:for 2030, an improvement in energy classes is expected in order to reduce emissions from our building stock by 16%;a second transition to 2033 for public buildings which will have to reduce emissions by 26%;in 2035 for private buildings to achieve a reduction of 22%".The president of the Order of Engineers of Rome and its province, Massimo Cerri, said this during an interview with the Dire agency.

“TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL YOU NEED STATE MONEY“

“We are ready with the idea, perhaps a little less with the tools available.”Thus, during an interview with the Dire agency, the president of the Order of Engineers of Rome and its province, Massimo Cerri, explained where Italy stands with respect to the European 'Green Houses' directive.“The Italian real estate panorama is made up of approximately 13 million buildings.Eleven million are residential and 8 million of these were built before the 70s - said Cerri - Looking at the data collected through energy performance certificates, to move towards the objectives set by Europe the interventions will therefore have to concern around 5 million of real estate.If we consider that a minimum renovation and energy requalification intervention will involve an expense of around 50 thousand euros per property, this investment will be in the order of hundreds of billions.So we must imagine that in Europe they are asking for support so that these objectives can be achieved."In Italy citizens can have a series of bonuses for working on their homes:“There is a tail end of the superbonus which allows us to recover 70% of the interventions carried out in 2024 and which will drop to 65% in 2025 - continued Cerri - Then there is the restructuring bonus which, again for 2024, allows us to recover 50% of the intervention, with the ecobonus you can recover up to 65%, the bonus linked to the earthquake allows you to reach up to 85% of the recovery of investments, depending on the case".And again "the ecosism bonus, a green bonus for the arrangement of our properties and another for the removal of architectural barriers".However, "these bonuses do not allow the transfer of credits, so all this must be done using one's own savings and then through tax recovery in various years, from 4 to 10 years based on the cases, it is possible to recover the expenses".But bringing Italian homes and buildings to zero emissions by 2050 "becomes a difficult objective to achieve if we imagine resorting exclusively to family savings - underlined Cerri - It is therefore necessary to resort to robust state interventions for the achievement of this objective."Furthermore, "due to the complexity of this entire system, it is extremely important that the citizen can refer to professionals who can technically carry out an examination of the property, calibrate it as best as possible and identify the most appropriate intervention to carry out to achieve this objective.Because unlike the phase of the 110% superbonus, in which it was necessary to restart the construction sector in the country and there was no choice of the best intervention with a view to the result, today instead - concluded Cerri - it is necessary to turn to a professional technician who can carry out this examination starting from the state of the building or property and then propose the best solution and the optimization of quality, costs and benefits".

“HOUSES IN ENERGY CLASS F-G ARE WORTH LESS”

Not adapting your home to higher performing energy classes (therefore with lower emissions) will cause the property itself to lose market value.The president of the Order of Engineers of the province of Rome, Massimo Cerri, explained this during an interview with the Dire agency.“The direction of the real estate market is such that it takes into account the energy driver through the identification of classes.Already in this historical phase - said Cerri - if I have a building or property in class A this will take on a different value compared to another with an intermediate class (B, C or D) rather than in the final classes F or G.The risk, which is already a certainty, is that if I have a property in the lowest energy classes it will have a lower value on the market than a property with the same surface area and exposure but of a higher energy class".