Print Email Facebook Twitter Effectiveness of energy efficiency regulatory tools in the housing sector Title Effectiveness of energy efficiency regulatory tools in the housing sector Author Visscher, H.J. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department OTB Date 2015-12-09 Abstract The urgent need for a dramatic reduction of fossil fuels in the built environment is without any doubt. The energy saving potential of the building stock is considered to be large and to be the most cost efficient sector to contribute to the CO2 reductions. Goals set by the European Union are to build net zero energy buildings in 2020 and to reach an energy neutral building stock by 2050. The current practice shows that the energy saving goals can only be reached by strict and supportive governmental policies. In Europe the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and the Energy Efficiency Directive are driving forces for EU Member States to develop and strengthen energy performance regulations controlled within the building permit procedures for new buildings and energy performance certificates (labels) for the building stock. This paper analyses the consequences of these developments for the systems of building regulations and control. It appears that these very ambitious goals require a review and innovation of the regulatory systems and tools. The current approaches seem to be inadequate to deal with the new challenges. This is concluded from ongoing research that shows that aims of regulations in general and energy saving goals in particular, are hardly realized in practice. Subject building controlbuilding regulationshousing stockenergy performanceenergy saving To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6125f452-b6f2-4ab6-8c61-6340f1a26a59 Publisher CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction) ISBN 978-0-7988-5624-9 Source SASBE 2015: Proceedings of the 5th CIB International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environments, Pretoria, South Africa, 9-11 December 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s) Files PDF 325254.pdf 369.01 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6125f452-b6f2-4ab6-8c61-6340f1a26a59/datastream/OBJ/view