BLUE PLANET ACADEMY & CONSULTING BVBA

Their core work

Blue Planet Academy & Consulting is a Brussels-based consultancy specializing in building renovation methodology, capacity building, and policy translation. Their core work revolves around developing and testing practical tools — renovation roadmaps, building passports, and digital logbooks — that help homeowners, advisors, and local authorities navigate the process of improving a building's energy performance step by step. In EU projects they contribute training design, field testing, and engagement activities that bridge the gap between technical renovation concepts and real-world adoption. The "Academy" component of their identity signals a deliberate focus on education and knowledge transfer rather than engineering or construction.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first H2020 project (iBROAD, 2017-2020), BPAC focused on the foundational challenge: how do you create a customised, step-by-step renovation plan for an individual building, and how do you train advisors and test it in the field? By their second project (iBRoad2EPC, 2021-2024), the concept had matured enough to pursue policy mainstreaming — integrating renovation roadmaps into Energy Performance Certification systems and pairing them with a digital building logbook. The trajectory is clearly from methodology design and grassroots testing toward institutional embedding and digital formalisation of the renovation passport as a policy instrument.

BPAC is moving from concept validation toward policy institutionalisation of renovation passports, making them an increasingly relevant partner for projects targeting EU Buildings Directive implementation or national EPC reform.

How they like to work

BPAC has participated in both of their H2020 projects as a partner, never as coordinator — a pattern consistent with a specialist consultancy that joins consortia to deliver a defined workpackage rather than to lead the overall programme. Their 13 unique partners across 10 countries for just two projects indicates they engage with broad, multinational consortia rather than tight bilateral arrangements. This suggests they are comfortable working in large, policy-oriented coordination actions and contribute specific advisory or training expertise rather than acting as a project hub.

Despite only two completed projects, BPAC has built connections with 13 distinct consortium partners spanning 10 countries — a notably wide European footprint for an SME of this scale. Their Brussels location gives them proximity to EU institutions, which likely shapes both their network composition and their focus on policy-facing project types.

What sets them apart

BPAC occupies a narrow but highly timely niche: the translation of building renovation concepts into practical, person-facing tools and into formal policy instruments like renovation passports and EPC schemes. Very few organisations combine academy-style training delivery with consultancy on renovation policy at the EU level, and their unbroken focus on this single topic across two consecutive projects signals genuine depth rather than opportunistic project hopping. For a consortium targeting the renovation wave, buildings directive transposition, or digital building logbooks, they bring specialised know-how that broader energy consultancies typically lack.

Highlights from their portfolio

• iBRoad2EPC
  The larger of their two projects (€199,950) and the more policy-ambitious one, aiming to formally integrate renovation roadmaps into national EPC certification schemes — directly relevant to current EU Buildings Directive obligations.
• iBROAD
  The foundational project that established BPAC's core methodology around individual renovation roadmaps, including real field testing and training delivery across multiple European countries.