Citizenry would not puzzle over high heating bills if they lived in energy efficient multi-family houses. However, such houses were not needed before; people would buy any housing, even those rigged up from plasterboard panels. On the eve of the downturn, they suddenly got interested in the quality, too. Yet, they failed to implement some projects of the passive multi-family houses. The downturn squeezed hard.

Governments in the western states do not trifle their money away. Once a multi-family house renovation project is subsidised, they request the quality of works, so that such a building would not be wasting energy in the future. Meanwhile, one is only talking in Lithuania about the need to request that the renovated old multi-family houses reached one or another rate of efficiency. Otherwise the state support would not be provided.

“The renovation programme is implemented almost under coercion. It is easy to see that the majority of inhabitants do not understand the importance of renovation and treat it as a government imposed burden. It is yet too early to speak about the need to renovate the buildings in order to meet energy efficient building parameters. People are not ready to this yet,” spoke Dr. Audronė Endriukaitytė, the Marketing Director from the company “Paroc”.

She is very sceptical about the possibilities to renovate an old multi-family house the parameters of which, after the renovation, could equal a passive house. Not because of technical solutions. First of all, because of inadequate approach towards the implementation of the programme. While people are counting their last cents in order to subsist, then there is no use to be talking about proper implementation of the renovation projects, not to talk about the ones close to the parameters of a passive house.