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Renovating an apartment building requires trust between residents, joint decisions and complex negotiations. The Innovation and Governance podcast explores why some Estonian apartment associations achieve comprehensive renovation while others remain hesitant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[623],"tags":[422,594,407,408,611,585],"class_list":["post-26845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taskuhaalingud-en","tag-energy","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-environment","tag-green-transition","tag-podcast-en","tag-public-administration"],"acf":{"postbuilder":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","type":"text","text":"[embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tK5aev7XVSI[\/embed]

The guest in this episode of the Innovation and Governance podcast is TalTech Professor Veiko Lember<\/a>, head of the public sector and innovation working group at the Centre of Excellence in Energy Efficiency. The discussion explores why the green transition can stall at an apartment association\u2019s general meeting.<\/p>

Renovating a home involves more than adding insulation and installing new building systems: it also calls for joint decisions, trust and complex negotiations. A new study based on more than 80 interviews helps explain why some Estonian apartment associations achieve comprehensive renovation while others remain hesitant.<\/p>

The conversation covers fear of borrowing, the boundaries between persuasion and pressure, and \u201cserial renovators\u201d who help apartment associations bring about change. What can association leaders and policymakers learn from the findings, and how can the journey towards a more energy-efficient home be made easier?<\/p>

The Innovation and Governance podcast is hosted by Peeter Vihma<\/a>, a researcher at Tallinn University of Technology\u2019s Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance. 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