Matosinhos will rehabilitate 5 housing projects with support from Porto Energy Hub

The municipality of Matosinhos unanimously approved, on  August 31st, the launch of

public tenders leading to the rehabilitation of five housing projects

08/09/2022 | ± 3 Minutes of reading

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The municipality of Matosinhos unanimously approved, on  August 31st, the launch of public tenders leading to the rehabilitation of five housing projects, including:

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–Ponte do Carro, with an execution period of one year and an estimated investment of 1.7 million euros.
-Chouso, with an expected duration of two years, and an estimated investment of 2.6 million.
-Seixo II, with an execution period of 28 months and an estimated cost of 3.6 million euros.
-Recarei, with an execution period of two years and an estimated investment of 3.7 million euros.
-Custió, which will benefit from the greatest intervention, with an estimated investment of 11.2 million euros and an execution period of 32 months.

In total, these interventions have a total cost of around 23 million euros and will be financed by the “1º Direito Programme” These interventions had the technical support of the Porto Energy Hub project, in cooperation with the Municipality of Matosinhos and with MatosinhosHabit, to identify energy efficiency solutions in terms of rehabilitation, improvement of thermal behavior and comfort; and development of renewable energy communities. This collaboration is part of the support actions that Porto Energy Hub has been developing over the last few months with the municipalities of the Metropolitan Area of Porto North of Douro.

Porto Energy Hub supports, based on funding from Horizon 2020, energy efficiency and renewable energy projects to improve living conditions, through energy rehabilitation interventions and the development of self-consumption units and renewable energy communities, thus mitigating energy poverty in the territory.