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The tenant's role in creating the business case for high performance low-carbon buildings: systematic literature review and post occupancy evaluation

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Authors:
Subha Parida

The ultimate test of the business case for high performance low carbon building is to consider how the human benefits of these buildings could be reliably quantified to prove beyond all doubt the positive Return on Investment (ROI). After all, staff costs, including salaries and benefits, typically account for about 90% of business operating costs.

BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY POLICIES: BEST PRACTICE POLICIES AND POLICY PACKAGES

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Authors:
Mark Levine,
Stephane de la Rue de Can,
Nina Zheng,
Christopher Williams,
Jennifer Amann,
Dan Staniaszek

The review of policies being implemented in China, the EU, India and the US presented in this report has also identified some key challenges that we must address if we are going to realize the mitigation potential of the building sector. Chief among these is the need to improve our monitoring of the impact that our policies are having. Lack of measured and verifiable data on the influence of policies on building energy performance currently hampers our ability to assess and continuously improve their effectiveness.

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