About 80 000 residential areas and 56 million flats have been built in Europe since 1950. 
At the moment more than 170 million people live in post war mass housing areas.

Housing organisations need to refurbish their housing stock periodically and the demand for sustainable refurbishment is high – from the European Commission, the member states and the associated states.  

Today there is almost no integration of refurbishment strategies and sustainability and insufficient tenant participation. 
Many refurbishment processes only focus on technical issues and initial costs.  

SUREURO has developed models and systems that provide housing organisations, interested parties; local authorities, town planners, construction companies etc, great opportunities to perform refurbishment processes within a normal time schedule and budget. 
The SUREURO models and systems offer users considerable environmental improvement and energy savings.

The SUREURO results was presented to the public during the
6^th SUREURO Conference in Kalmar, Sweden June 2004.