EMPRESA MUNICIPAL DE LA VIVIENDA Y SUELO DE MADRID SA

Their core work

EMVS is Madrid's municipal housing and land company, responsible for managing, developing, and renovating the city's social housing stock. Unlike technology developers or research institutes, their value in H2020 projects is as a real-world deployment partner — they own and operate residential buildings where energy renovation and smart building technologies can be tested on actual occupied housing. They bring direct access to the end-user context that most technology projects struggle to find: large-scale social housing portfolios under municipal governance. Their participation bridges the gap between laboratory-ready technologies and real-building implementation at city scale.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first H2020 engagement (BERTIM, 2015–2019), EMVS focused on the construction dimension of building renovation — prefabricated timber modules, BIM integration, and scalable manufacturing methods for deep retrofits. By their second project (SunHorizon, 2018–2023), the focus had shifted decisively toward the operational phase: heat pumps, solar integration, and crucially, intelligent building systems including predictive maintenance and controller logic. This shift mirrors a broader market maturation — from "how do we renovate buildings faster" to "how do we run renovated buildings smarter."

EMVS is moving from renovation construction toward intelligent building operations — making them an increasingly relevant partner for digital building management and smart energy system projects that need a municipal housing operator as a real-world host.

How they like to work

EMVS has participated exclusively as a consortium partner, never as project coordinator — consistent with their role as an end-user and demonstration site provider rather than a research or technology lead. Both projects were large Innovation Actions with broad European consortia, suggesting EMVS joins well-organized multi-partner efforts where their contribution is access to real buildings and operational feedback. They are not a technology hub but a grounding partner that gives projects real-world credibility.

EMVS has connected with 38 unique consortium partners across 15 countries through just two projects, reflecting the scale of the Innovation Actions they joined rather than an independently cultivated network. Their geographic reach is genuinely European, driven by consortium composition rather than bilateral relationships.

What sets them apart

EMVS occupies a niche almost no other H2020 organization fills: a municipal public housing operator that brings its own building stock into European research projects as a live demonstration environment. For any consortium working on building energy renovation, retrofitting, or smart building systems that needs to demonstrate impact in real occupied social housing — not a lab mock-up — EMVS offers direct access to Madrid's residential portfolio under city governance. This makes them a credible end-user partner who can validate technology performance and scalability in exactly the socially relevant context that EU funding bodies want to see.

Highlights from their portfolio

• SunHorizon
  The larger of the two projects (€113,951) and the more technically advanced, covering heat pump + solar coupling plus smart monitoring and predictive control — representing EMVS's most operationally sophisticated engagement.
• BERTIM
  EMVS's entry into H2020 via a deep renovation project using timber prefabricated modules and BIM, positioning them early in the industrialized renovation wave that has since become a policy priority across the EU.