Cristiana Pereira

Serial Renovation as an Accelerator for Climate-Neutral School Buildings

Many school buildings in Germany are in need of renovation. At the same time, municipalities are under considerable pressure: stricter energy efficiency requirements, a shortage of skilled workers, and limited financial and human resources are making modernization more difficult. Cristiana Pereira from the German Energy Agency (dena) will show at SCHULBAU Berlin how innovative renovation concepts can help overcome these challenges.

Faster Renovation with Prefabricated Solutions
Serial renovation relies on a modular system of industrially prefabricated facade and technical elements, combined with digitalized planning and construction processes. This allows renovation measures to be organized more efficiently and construction times to be significantly reduced.

This approach offers decisive advantages, especially for schools: ideally, extensive modernization work can be carried out during the summer holidays. School operations remain largely undisturbed, while costly temporary facilities can be avoided.

Using proven practical examples, Cristiana Pereira explains how serial renovation solutions contribute to the energy-efficient modernization of municipal school buildings and what potential they offer for a climate-neutral building stock.

Funding Opportunities and Support for Municipalities
In addition to the technical and organizational advantages, the presentation also examines the economic framework conditions. The focus is on current funding opportunities, particularly the new SerSan funding bonus for non-residential buildings.

Pereira also presents dena’s support services and shows how municipalities can get started with serial renovation and launch concrete modernization projects.

About the Speaker
Cristiana Pereira is a trained architect and works in the Non-Residential Buildings team of the Competence Center for Serial Renovation/Energiesprong at the German Energy Agency (dena). With her expertise in sustainable school construction, she supports municipalities and public building owners in modernizing school buildings. Together with the Energiesprong team, she is committed to fast, cost-effective, and climate-friendly renovation solutions.

Find out at SCHULBAU Berlin how serial renovation can accelerate the energy-efficient modernization of schools and support municipalities on their way to a climate-neutral building stock.