Refurbishment with life cycle greenhouse gas balance (LCA)
If you have submitted an application for refurbishment with a life cycle greenhouse gas balance by 10 December 2025, you will find all the information you need here.
Course description
Funding is available for the energy-efficient refurbishment of residential buildings. This must not exceed a limit value for greenhouse gas emissions per square metre of net room area and per year over the life cycle of the building (50-year observation period).
The following information applies to applications that are or have been submitted from 11 December 2025: Refurbishment with life cycle greenhouse gas balance from 11 December 2025
For applications submitted by 10 December 2025, you will find all relevant information here:
for applications submitted between 31 July 2025 and 10 December 2025, the following applies: funding is only available for buildings that have an energy efficiency rating of E, F, G or H based on a needs assessment prior to refurbishment.
The subsidy rate is 15 per cent of the eligible investment costs up to a maximum of 150,000 euros per residential unit.
The eligible costs are defined in accordance with 8.2 of the guidelines for federal funding for efficient residential buildings (BEG WG).
If funding from the City of Munich under the FKG and funding programmes of other funding bodies (e.g. the federal government or the Free State of Bavaria) is claimed at the same time, the requirements of these funding programmes must be observed. In particular, their provisions on the cumulative nature of the funding programmes apply. If you have any questions regarding the possibility of cumulation, please contact the responsible office at the respective funding organisation.
Prerequisites
You have submitted an application for funding for refurbishments with a life cycle greenhouse gas balance by 10 December 2025.
Required documents
No documents are required when submitting the application.
After completion of the construction project(s), the following documents must be uploaded. In the funding portal, uploading these documents is called "Submit proof of use":
If the application is to be submitted by an authorised person representing the applicant, the power of attorney form must be submitted.
- Proof of authorisation to apply. Example: A private individual submitting the application themselves must upload their ID. For WEG, see WEG subpage.
- GEG calculation including building component list with area and U-value calculations as well as a description of the technical system
- Proof of operating emissions based on the energy requirement parameters of the existing building
- Calculation of heated net room area in accordance with DIN 277
- Documentation of the life cycle assessment of the building on the basis of a component list with the refurbished components of KG 300 and 400 that are relevant in terms of energy.
- Sustainability certificates for wood
- Building plans on the basis of which the energy requirement calculation was prepared.
- Completed form " Declaration of life cycle THG balance sheet"
- Confirmation from a specialised company that hydraulic balancing has been carried out using the confirmation form for an efficiency house (residential building) from the "Spitzenverband für Gebäudetechnik" (VdZ-Forum für Energieeffizienz in der Gebäudetechnik e. V., www.vdzev.de/broschueren/formulare-hydraulischer-abgleich).
- List of eligible investment measures and investment costs
- All project-related, detailed calculations
- Proof of product-specific characteristic values
A summary of the documents to be submitted can be found in the checklist Refurbishment with life cycle GHG balance sheet.
Questions & Answers
owners and equivalent persons (e.g. leaseholders, persons entitled to usufruct) of the property, part of the property, building or part of the building on or in which the measure is to be implemented, as well as contractors, are eligible to apply .
the application is submitted by a representative of the WEG. the "applicant" is the WEG itself. The WEG bears the costs. The invoice must be issued to the WEG. You can find detailed information on the WEG subpage.
no, you do not need to present an iSFP to receive funding for "refurbishment with life cycle greenhouse gas balance". Only if you wish to receive funding for individual measures (i.e. refurbishment in several stages) is the existence of an iSFP (which fulfils the FKG criteria) a prerequisite for funding.
It is possible to submit a parallel application for "Climate-compatible building standards" (Chapter 4) and BEG-linked "Refurbishment standards" (Chapter 3) for the same building. It is essential to link the funding applications in the funding portal during the application process.
After completion of the measures and submission of the proof of use, it is up to the applicant to decide which of the two funding applications should be considered and to withdraw the unused application independently via the funding portal. The respective requirements and conditions of the funding guidelines apply.
Double funding is excluded.