Julie Müller
Journalist, assistant editor at Immobilier.ch
Posted on May 04, 2025 at 13:28. / Modified on 04 May 2025 at 13:29.
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Switzerland faces an unprecedented housing crisis, between shortages, increasing rents and brakes on densification. The real estate forum organized by “Le Temps” on June 5 in Lausanne attacks the challenges that shape our future real estate. Registration
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Heat pumps, gas boilers, oil tanks or pellet ovens … Soon of ancient history? Maybe. This is in any case what the French -speaking cities hope with the generalization in our districts of remote heating (CAD), a thermal network more than ever under the spotlight. It consists of using the excess heat released by large production facilities (such as incineration factories) or generated by means of renewable energies to cover our heating and domestic water needs.
Yet the idea is not new. Already in 1926, Chaux-de-Fonds was the first city in Switzerland to acquire its own system. But, encouraged by the frantic race against the carbon in which our country launched, the frame wins the field in all the French -speaking cantons, without exception. Its simplicity of use – no purchase of energy and maintenance for the consumer and a durability that is around sixty years – made him a major ally with a view to carbon neutrality in 2050. Owners and professionals in the sector will therefore get used to and take this turn although, for the moment, this solution is summed up in the collective spirit to ripped streets, tenfold demarchages and an organization that remains to be proven.
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