The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda (Mitma) has granted 293.7 million euro in aid from European NextGenerationEU funds to 187 local entities throughout Spain to rehabilitate public buildings. Of the total, Mitma has definitively granted 274.1 million euro to 171 municipalities, or councils, within the framework of Line 2 of the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Program for Locally-owned Public Buildings (local Pirep), while the remaining money corresponds to the resolution of the allegations and appeals presented within the framework of the calls in competitive competition for lines 1 and 2 of the Recovery Plan program.
Specifically, the Ministry has resolved to provisionally grant 16 million euro from Line 2 to eight town halls and a council to act on nine buildings, and definitively grant 3.5 million euro from Line 1 to seven municipalities to rehabilitate as many buildings. public for sporting, educational, administrative uses.
The nine provisional beneficiaries have a period of 10 days, counted from the day following the notification of the resolution, to accept, renounce or file the pertinent allegations.
In total, the 293.7 million euro granted through the three resolutions published at the Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda electronic headquarters will finance the rehabilitation of 196 locally owned public buildings, of which 55% are allocated or they will be used for cultural, sports and educational use, benefiting more than 14 million citizens.
At this point, it should be noted that more than half of the beneficiary local entities have less than 20,000 inhabitants, of which some 55 have a population of less than 10,000 inhabitants.
The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda opened the call for both lines of aid from the Public Buildings Rehabilitation Program (Pirep) in the first quarter of 2022, but line 1 had a shorter term for submitting offers and resolution than Line 2, which, in turn, includes a series of project scale requirements in order to participate.
Definitive resolution Pirep Local Line 2
In accordance with the final resolution of Line 2, the 274 million euro awarded are aimed at financing 180 rehabilitation actions chosen from among the 1,020 presented by 880 municipalities, councils, councils and island councils based on architectural quality criteria, solidity, governance, comprehensive approach, innovation and opportunity, so all of them register an approach based on the quality principles promulgated by the Architecture Quality Law.
It should not be forgotten that the call has been held under a competitive concurrence regime, so the actions that have obtained the highest score have been selected.
Of the selected projects, 86 are located in municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants, with those with less than 5,000 inhabitants being especially relevant, the so-called demographic challenge, where 30 projects will be carried out.
Without forgetting the 84 buildings that are currently in disuse and that will receive subsidies from the Program in order to address the problems that the existence of these gaps in activity entails for the urban environment.
The program has an important social dimension and contributes to the strengthening and improvement of public services. Not in vain, 60% of 180 buildings to be rehabilitated with the help of European funds are destined or will be destined for cultural, educational and sports use. Specific:
75 actions for buildings for cultural use.
25 actions for buildings for administrative use
15 actions aimed at buildings for sports use.
17 actions for buildings for educational use.
The rest of the uses are varied, although the rehabilitations in administrative buildings or for public services stand out, which include municipal markets, police stations, civic centres, laboratories… In this sense, action will be taken on 84 buildings that are currently in disuse, addressing, therefore, the problem that the existence of these voids of activity and destining them for public use supposes for the urban environment.
The projects accepted in Line 2 had to meet at least two of the three scale requirements that are included in the Ministerial Order of Bases: have a work budget equal to or greater than 500,000 euro, collect an intervention in at least 1,000 square metres of surface and, finally, that the degree of intervention of the action is equal to or greater than 500 euro/m2.
Program to Promote the Rehabilitation of Public Buildings
These three resolutions are added to the 307 million euro definitively granted in 2022 to 381 local entities to rehabilitate public buildings within the framework of Line 1 of the Pirep. Thus, in total, the Ministry has granted some 600 million euro in aid from European recovery funds to 496 municipalities, councils, councils and councils throughout Spain to rehabilitate 598 buildings, of which 69% are destined or are going to allocate to cultural uses (228), educational (50) and public services (135). European funds directly benefit the almost 22.5 million people who live in these locations.
All subsidized actions within the framework of line 2 must be completed and have a work reception certificate before March 31, 2026. For their part, the projects selected within the framework of Line 1 must guarantee their reception of work, without observations or objections, before September 30, 2024.
The definitive granting of the aid implies that, once the rehabilitation is finished, the buildings must be used for public use for at least 20 years and generate significant savings in energy consumption.
This investment also guarantees a reduction of more than 30% in the consumption of non-renewable primary energy, improvements in accessibility, habitability and promoting the conservation of the building stock, with investments in buildings that currently have multiple uses.
The European NextGenerationEU funds finance up to one hundred percent of the eligible costs of actions aimed at reducing the consumption of non-renewable primary energy by at least 30%, and in the case of complementary ones (sustainability, accessibility, habitability and conservation) 85% of the eligible costs are subsidised, without exceeding 50% of the amount of the main actions (reduction of non-renewable raw energy consumption).
This comprehensive approach has been one of the great commitments of this program, which seeks to contribute to the fight against climate change, improve the quality of life and solve important deficiencies in the public building stock related to habitability issues, such as acoustic comfort. deficient, the air quality inside the building, accessibility problems and the improvement of obsolete or outdated distributions with the new ways of working, etc.
The Pirep is included in Investment 5 of Component 2 of the Recovery Plan, initially endowed with 1,080 million euros, of which 480 million have already been transferred to the autonomous communities and cities of Ceuta and Melilla to finance the energy rehabilitation of your public park.
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