Print Email Facebook Twitter Energy efficiency in housing management – conclusions from an international study Title Energy efficiency in housing management – conclusions from an international study Author Nieboer, N. Gruis, A. Van Hal, A. Tsenkova, S. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Date 2011-07-05 Abstract Energy efficiency has gained a lot of prominence in recent debates on urban sustainability and housing policy due to its potential consequences for climate change. At the local, national and also international level, there are numerous initiatives to promote energy savings and the use of renewable energy to reduce the environmental burden. There is a lot of literature on energy saving and other forms of energy efficiency in housing. However, how to bring this forward in the management of individual housing organisations is not often internationally explored. An international research project has been carried out to find the answers on management questions of housing organisations regarding energy efficiency. Eleven countries have been included in this study: Germany, the United Kingdom (more specifically: England), France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Austria and Canada. The state of the art of energy efficiency in the housing management of non-profit housing organisations and the embedding of energy efficiency to improve the quality and performance of housing in management practices have been investigated, with a focus on how policy ambitions about energy efficiency are brought forward in investment decisions at the estate level. This paper presents the conclusions of the research. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:471ca585-14dc-485d-bcce-c02332ba3a6b Publisher ENHR Source 23rd Conference of the European Network for Housing Research ENHR, Toulouse, July 5-8, 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c)2011 Nieboer, N., Gruis, V., Van Hal, A., Tsenkova, S. Files PDF Paper-Nieboer-WS11.pdf 204.89 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:471ca585-14dc-485d-bcce-c02332ba3a6b/datastream/OBJ/view