Rebuilding with a Focus on Energy Efficiency: FELICITY II launches technical training for pilot cities

From 18 to 21 Novem­ber 2025, the city of Lviv host­ed the first tech­ni­cal train­ing with­in the frame­work of the FELICITY II pilot project aimed at devel­op­ing ener­gy-effi­cient recon­struc­tion solu­tions for mul­ti-apart­ment res­i­den­tial build­ings dam­aged by the war in Ukraine.

The train­ing brought togeth­er par­tic­i­pants from part­ner cities Kryvyi Rih and Myko­laiv, along with ener­gy audi­tors and ener­gy effi­cien­cy experts, design pro­fes­sion­als, and project con­sul­tants. Ses­sions were deliv­ered by the Ger­man Ener­gy Agency (dena), mark­ing a prac­ti­cal start­ing point for pilot imple­men­ta­tion.

The train­ing pro­gramme focused on a range of tech­ni­cal and strate­gic top­ics, includ­ing:

— Prin­ci­ples of ener­gy bal­ance in res­i­den­tial build­ings;

— Plan­ning using the Pas­sive House Plan­ning Pack­age (PHPP);

— Inte­gra­tion of renew­able ener­gy solu­tions into hous­ing design;

— Cost-ben­e­fit analy­sis and effi­cien­cy eval­u­a­tion;

— Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process­es for ener­gy-effi­cient con­struc­tion.

Par­tic­u­lar atten­tion was giv­en to the tech­ni­cal design phase: ther­mal bridges, insu­la­tion of build­ing envelopes, mechan­i­cal sys­tem design, and the require­ments for project design and site super­vi­sion.

The next phase of the pilot will involve on-site tech­ni­cal assess­ments in the part­ner cities and hands-on train­ing at select­ed build­ings.

As part of the FELICITY II pilot, 20 invest­ment-ready projects will be devel­oped to sup­port the refur­bish­ment of mul­ti-apart­ment build­ings using EU-aligned ener­gy effi­cien­cy stan­dards. Kryvyi Rih and Myko­laiv will receive com­pre­hen­sive sup­port in estab­lish­ing mod­ern, cli­mate-resilient hous­ing infra­struc­ture that con­tributes to Ukraine’s green recov­ery and inte­gra­tion with the Euro­pean Union. 

FELICITY II is an inter­na­tion­al ini­tia­tive sup­port­ing sus­tain­able urban infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment in East­ern Euro­pean and Cen­tral Asia coun­tries, aim­ing to reduce green­house gas emis­sions. The pro­gramme pro­vides tech­ni­cal and ana­lyt­i­cal assis­tance to munic­i­pal­i­ties to help them design and imple­ment cli­mate-friend­ly invest­ments in water sup­ply, waste­water man­age­ment, and ener­gy-effi­cient build­ings. 

FELICITY II is imple­ment­ed by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH in coop­er­a­tion with the Euro­pean Invest­ment Bank and with the sup­port of the Ger­man Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment, under the frame­work of the Inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Ini­tia­tive (IKI).