Valsts Agentura - State Agency "Housing Agency" of Latvia

3 Mucenieku Str
LV-1011 Riga
LATVIA
Tel: +371 7 041 968 / +371 29 838 193 Fax: +371 7 041 961
Website: www.ma.gov.lv

Main Contact
   Valdis ZAKIS, Director of Housing Development Department
   Email: valdis.zakis[at]ma.gov.lv

Other Contacts
   Andrejs NIKOLAJEVS, Project Manager on Energy Efficiency issues
   Email: andrejs.nikolajevs[at]ma.gov.lv

   Iveta PUKITE, Deputy Director of Housing Development Department
   Email: iveta.pukite[at]ma.gov.lv

   Natalya PAVLOVSKA, Consultant of Project and Programme management div
   Email: natalija.pavlovska[at]ma.gov.lv

   Snezhana HOROSHIH, Deputy Chief of Project and Programme management d
   Email: snezana.horosiha[at]ma.gov.lv

Year of Creation: 2002

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The State Agency "Housing Agency" is a state institution supervised by the Ministry of Economics of Latvia. Enhancing of housing quality, the availability and the opportunities of choice for Latvian citizens is the principal mission of the Agency. The target of "Housing Agency" is to realize a long-term corporate policy in the housing sphere and integration of Latvian housing policy in the European Union in accordance with EU normative acts in housing sphere.

The agency's main functions are:

1. To manage state support programs, housing regional, national and cross-border development projects;
2. To manage methodologically municipalities and other owners in housing maintenance field;
3. To ensure housing monitoring and communication with target audience;
4. To improve housing legislative basis and housing quality of Latvian residential stock;

The agency has been active in the housing energy efficiency field since 2003 and has experience of: co-financing and management of energy audits, preparation of a suitable calculation system and form. By this time, we have developed EE calculation tools which are helpful in local conditions, methodologies and a prototype of energy certificate.

The agency is also using thermography methodology as the consultative basis and has a definite experience in this field. At the moment, it is also involved in the preparation of the legislative basis of EPBD.

State Agency "Housing Agency" is also experienced in project implementation. Each year it implements the PPP project "Housing Energy Audits" and summarize the results of it. The agency regularly organizes workshops for housing managers, municipalities and apartment owners on energy efficiency in housing and opportunities offered by producers of heat insulation and building materials, banks etc.

The Agency is coordinating a BSR Interreg III B Programme project "Sustainable Reintegration of Post-soviet Military Residential Areas as a Challenge and Opportunity for Regional Development" (ReMiDo) as a Lead Partner.

It is also participating in the BSR Interreg III B Programme project "Baltic Energy Efficiency Network for the Building Stock" (BEEN) as a project partner responsible for providing the data on energy audits and residential stock in Latvia.

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Report: ManagEnergy Annual Conference - November 2004: European Conference on Local Energy Action