The Business Case for Rooftop Extension

Rooftop Extension What is the business case for rooftop extensions? Thijs Müller, Co-founder of Creative City Solutions, and Didier Mignery, Founder of UpFactor, explain how adding housing on top of existing buildings can address several challenges at once: housing shortages, energy renovation and urban land use. This episode covers: • When rooftop extensions make economic sense, and the technical, regulatory and financial complexities involved • How revenue from additional homes can help finance energy renovations and upgrades to existing buildings • The advantages of modular timber construction and designing for deconstruction The episode also looks at the potential scale of rooftop extensions, and the role of regulation, data and stakeholder engagement in making them more viable and scalable. This is the first episode of the “Rooftop Extension” series. **People** Thijs Müller, Co-founder; Founder at Creative City Solutions https://www.linkedin.com/in/thijs-m%C3%BCller-23a07489/ Didier Mignery at UpFactor https://fr.linkedin.com/in/didier-mignery Patrick Hypscher, Circular Business Strategist, PaaS Expert https://www.linkedin.com/in/hypscher/ **Chapters** 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:04 Meet Thijs Müllet 00:07:21 The rooftop potential 00:13:57 How fast rooftop extension can scale 00:15:34 Meet Didier Mignery 00:16:17 The business case for building upward 00:18:40 Scanning cities for hidden rooftop potential 00:22:55 Turning resistance into shared value 00:27:21 What it will take to scale across Europe 00:31:51 Outro **About** Created in 2017, UpFactor is a company specializing in elevation. They detect on a large scale the potential for real estate optimization and overhead land in particular. Developing develop untapped territories to facilitate the creation of new square meters without artificializing the soil. This is made possible by, UPFACTOR GEOSERVICES, an innovative software to detect the potential for elevation of a given address. Designed and developed internally to conduct large-scale prospective studies, UPFACTOR GEOSERVICES is a geographical information system that uses a database that aggregates all the information necessary to define buildable potentials. **Further Links** https://upfactor.fr https://creativecitysolutions.com/ **One-page Summary** Sign-up for the Circularity.fm Newsletter and get a summary with the take-aways of this episode. Register here: https://circularity.fm/episode/the-business-case-for-rooftop-extension/