The document describes the Peloton Smart Retro Acceleration Program from 2014-2015. The program brought together companies, residents, municipalities and other stakeholders to: 1) Develop new business models and services for sustainable retrofitting through co-design workshops. 2) Identify best practices and emerging opportunities in retrofitting and sustainable lifestyles from the Nordic countries. 3) Build scenarios to communicate the commercial and sustainability potential of retrofitting projects and smart services.

2. Peloton Smart Retro Acceleration Program
+ New Partnerships
+ Foresight
+ Analyses on Emerging Opportunities in Cities
= Novel Way to Develop Cities

3. MODEL & SCALE
Concept a new business
model for refurbishment
through innovative
regeneration.
Plan to move and multiply
the sustainable lifestyles
service coalition and new
model to a new site
CO-DESIGN
Companies, residents,
municipal actors and
other stakeholders
develop the services
together first on
innovation camp, and then
test them in the daily lives
of the areas.
IDENTIFY best practices,
models and close-to-market
consumer services, startups
and citizen initiatives in the
Nordic Countries enabling
sustainable lifestyles. Identify
special qualities, needs and
wishes of the areas. Analyze
of Nordic refurbishment
models.
BUILD SCENARIOS that
depict alternative futures
of built environmental
evolution, lifestyle
transitions and local
service economy and
communicate commercial
and sustainability potential
of services.
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4. S M A R T R E T R O M I L E S T O N E S

5. Smart Retro Kick-off 5/2014

6. The Smart Retro web
The most viewed page: Meet the people

7. Smart Retro Acceleration Program
62
teams applied

8. Smart Retro Baseline Report
Copenhagen Nov 20
Helsinki Dec 1

10. The wicked reality: retro building stock

11. Baseline report, Nordic Built

12. The replacement rate of existing building stock is low, with
official figures in Europe at around 1–2% per year
Online retail sales in Europe alone are set to double by 2019,
growing from €165 billion in 2013 to €330 billion in 2019
31% of Finnish residential
building stock was built between 1946-1970.
Buildings account for up to 40% of all energy consumption in
Finland and the rest of Europe, and represent a similar share
of Finland’s GHG emissions

13. Trends driving the change in Nordic cities

14. Efficient buildings
Sustainable lifestyles
Smart services

17. Smartups

18. Retrofitting projects

19. Retrofitting projects
Energy use in buildings
Ranging from total use to specific measurements of for heating, hot water and electricity; overall water use;
carbon dioxide emissions
Social issues
Changes in employment rate, education, income level
Residents perceptions
Safety, general likability
Direct economic consequences of the project
Rents, maintenance costs, property value etc.
Biopsychosocial (only employed in Botkyrka)
Health (physical activity & experienced violence); sense of safety and belonging; trust towards other residents; employment indicators;
school success
What defines a successful project?
•follow-up measurements (before and after the project)
•comparative measurements between areas

20. Placemaking

21. The Case Areas

22. City Centre, Lahti

23. • In 1940–1975, the population of the Lahti
region doubled and the population of the city
tripled.
• Lahti’s population in general is older than in
other Finnish big cities
• The direct railroad connection to Helsinki
(since 2005) has made commuting to or from
Lahti a feasible option.
• Lahti Green City 2008-
• The goal is to make the city centre a
pedestrian friendly area.
• Intermodal travel centre and a large-scale
underground parking system under
construction in the centre.
City Centre, Lahti

24. • The construction work of the new
underground parking has pushed lots of
older shop-keepers to quit.
• Currently, almost a third of Lahti city centre’s
population is over 65 years old.
• Many consider public transit dysfunctional
and tariffs expensive
• The ring of hyper-markets outside the city
centre
• Vicious circle: attitude-action-perception
Challenges

25. City Centre, Lahti

26. 1. It is often a real struggle to transform sustainability goals into concrete action.
Cities, companies and other organisations are lacking in profitable and functional
models linking existing structures to action, which could then enable a shift
towards sustainability.
2. Integrating social, economical and environmental aspects is still a fairly rare
approach in refurbishment, and seeing sustainable lifestyles as a potential boost
for local business is an even more novel idea.
3. For many potential startups it is a challenge to build a profitable firm in the
current business environment and to survive the time-span of the next 1–5 years.
Their markets are only just beginning to emerge. Therefore, there is a need for a
new model of collaboration.
4. The old way of attracting capital to cities was through one big single employer or
an institution of higher education locating to the area. In the future it could be
the other way around: money and jobs would come after people.
Conclusions

27. 1. Check
our estimation
2. Fill in your estimation 4. Signature
5. If your colleague is not present, fill in his/her
contribution on other sheet
6.If you can recall other contributions, there is a special sheet for reporting them given to each
organization’s contact person. Rest of the in kind other will be reported online.
Reporting in kind
3. Add a task
under the correct
milestone.
Remember
the date!
Something missing?

29. City Car Club, car-sharing services
Ekern & Gamla Enskede Lådcyklar AB, Cargo bike fleets
Fourdeg, smart-energy solutions
Greenely, visualizer of households’ energy consumption
IAgree, an app that helps people have their say on things that matter to them locally
Meido, social living network for housing companies
MoralGuard, connects consumer attitudes to sustainability and wellbeing
Nurmi Clothing, sustainable clothing label
PiggyBaggy, crowd-sourced delivery service
Remarket, curated online marketplace for second-hand clothing
Urban Fruit Initiative, hyper-local produce made from surplus fruit
Yhteismaa, participatory city culture, co-creation and social movements
Mea Manna, organic food made by people who have learning difficulties
Puoti, lifestyle store selling eco fashion and vintage clothing
Benjamin maatilatori, countryside shops selling local farm produce
Impact Agency, a collaborative platform for lifelong learning and improving entrepreneurship
This is Peloton Smart Retro Acceleration program 2014-2015

30. Peloton Smart Retro Acceleration Program
Dec
2014
Jan
2015
Mar-Apr
2015
Sep-Oct
2014

31. SMART
RETROINNOVATION CAMP
PELOTON

32. What is our unique,
shared way to develop
cities?
#retrofitting #smartups #missinglink #placemaking
What should we do in the
coming months to
actualize this promise?
What could I/we gain from
this?