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Mission and activities
Mission
Our mission is to provide an effective solution to the fight against climate change by creating a community of citizens who improve their well-being and that of their families by promoting more comfortable, healthy, efficient and environmentally friendly homes.
Foundational purpose
The purpose of the Foundation is to improve the well-being of the inhabitants of its area of activity:
A)
Defending and protecting the environment by promoting and improving the safety, energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources in buildings.
B)
Promoting the rehabilitation of buildings and improving their accessibility.
C)
Accrediting and approving qualified projects to improve energy security and efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources as well as accessibility in buildings promoted by other public and / or private entities.
Activities
To achieve its goals, the Foundation will develop a qualified program of comprehensive renovation of energy and water facilities in buildings to achieve maximum efficiency and energy savings, the use of renewable energy sources, as well. as an improvement of its accessibility, in such a way that it entails the maximum guarantees and security in all the subjects interested in participating in the program.
The qualified program will be carried out through all the following activities:
A) Inform and advise on specific matters of safety, energy efficiency, use of renewable energy sources, rehabilitation and accessibility to buildings.
B) Establish a validation system for qualified technicians with technical and financial solvency to assess the current situation of the buildings and propose the appropriate measures for eco-efficient rehabilitation and accessibility with an execution budget and a study of the savings planned for the beneficiaries.
C) Establish a system of validation of suppliers, contractors and qualified technical directors with technical and financial solvency with whom to contract the execution of all or part of the measures.
D) Establish a system for validating the technical specifications of the measures, equipment and materials to be installed.
E) Establish a system to verify that the financing formulas for the cost of the works are long-term and in the best market conditions for the beneficiaries.
F) Promote the creation of guarantee funds to cover the contingencies for delays and non-payments determined by the program's financial investors.
G) Design and accredit a standard clause of general conditions of the contracts to be formalized between the intervening parties, ensuring the maximum guarantees for the parties, especially for the beneficiaries when they have the status of consumers or users.
H) Advise the beneficiaries on the particular conditions of the contracts to be signed.
I) Establish mechanisms to guarantee the effectiveness of the works carried out.
J) Carry out agreements or other actions with City Councils and / or other public administrations in order to formalize the rights and obligations deriving from the interested beneficiaries who voluntarily join the program, providing those agreements and actions with the maximum mechanisms to ensure the fulfillment of the obligations, implementing green credits or other modalities, according to what in each moment allows the rule.
K) Advise beneficiaries on obtaining tax credits and subsidies, especially in cases of energy poverty and in groups of the long-term unemployed.
L) Check that the actions carried out have been carried out in accordance with the qualified project to which the beneficiaries have benefited.
M) Accredit and approve processes to improve energy safety and efficiency, the use of renewable energy sources as well as accessibility in buildings that promote other public and / or private entities that follow the guidelines and methodologies implemented by the Foundation in its own actions.
N) Attract and manage donations for the Foundation with the aim of promoting and expanding the scope of the Foundation’s actions and their social impact.
In the development of all its activities, the Foundation will implement all the criteria of corporate social responsibility that are appropriate to it.
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