The energy renovation of buildings in France will require around 200,000 additional construction workers and managers by 2030, which requires efforts in training, but also in the attractiveness and quality of these professions, France Strategy warned on Monday. This need should particularly affect regions with a large proportion of energy sieves (northeast quarter, center) and diesel boilers (around the central massif, east), according to this report prepared after six months of hearings by France Strategy, Matignon. forecast department.
In total, the needs are estimated between 170,000 and 250,000 additional jobs, indicates the projection, based on the different renovation acceleration scenarios necessary for France’s climate transition (scenarios of the Ecological Planning attached to the Prime Minister, Ademe , Negawatt…)
What aid for rehabilitation and what rate of decline in new construction?
The challenge is twofold, underlines Hélène Garner, from France Strategy: we need more staff and improve the quality of the renewal offer. Regarding skills, we must help companies, many of them individual, to train in “efficient” rehabilitation. To date, the rate of GER labeling remains “relatively low” and one in three inspected sites is non-compliant, underlines Hélène Garner. But this means strengthening the attractiveness of these trades, which sins on the side of the workers: the schools lack candidates. Today, in construction, many employees leave (for example, for logistics or industry), in any case before retirement, in particular for health reasons, the report notes.
On the other hand, for the executive function, which is more attractive, more classes and new training are already necessary, for emerging professions (project manager, construction coordinator, etc.).
However, these projections still include uncertainties, linked in particular to the demand for reforms: today public aid supports partial reforms (change of boiler, for example). The whole problem now is that the aid makes global renovations, which are often expensive projects, creditworthy. Another unknown: the rate of decline in new construction. Pour autant, even dans une hypothèse de forte décrue des chantiers dans le neuf, il ne faudra pas compter sur un transfert de ces ouvriers pour répondre à la demande dans la rénovación: selon France Stratégie, moins 20% de chantiers libéreraient 50,000 emplois, loin Needs.
Source: BFM TV
