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What are the steps? Set targets and develop policies

Presentation
Authors:
Philip Cornell

The content discussed how to go about developing policies that prioritised energy efficiency for building by consulting with key stakeholders. The purpose of the slides is to teach emerging professionals in the emerging economies about how targets and policies can be used in tandem to meet energy and development goals. This course will provide examples of how targets have been created to meet targets and how country goals can be met by setting targets and complementary building energy efficiency policies.

PNNL’s recommendations on changes to the VBEEC

Presentation
Authors:
Mark Halverson,
Meredydd Evans

Buildings currently account for over 35% of Vietnam’s total energy consumption. Buildings codes could result in 30-40% buildings energy savings. The Vietnam Building Energy Code (VBEEC) was introduced in 2013 and now scheduled for revision in 2016.

In 2016, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) provided the following key recommendations for the revision of the Vietnam Building Energy Efficiency Code (VBEEC):

Setting up a formal energy code development process

Presentation
Authors:
Meredydd Evans,
Mark Halverson

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is a leading organization globally on building energy codes and standards. PNNL has served as the technical lead for DOE’s Building Energy Codes Program in the U.S. and worked on building energy codes in many countries including Vietnam, India, China, and Russia.

Overview of stakeholders participation in adoption & implementation of building energy codes

Presentation
Authors:
Volha Roshchanka,
Meredydd Evans

This presentation shows a brief overview of some of the principles and practices and stakeholder engagement related to building energy codes. It also includes a brief example of the Australian government that has engaged in code assessment. There's a commitment to continually engage with stakeholders, both through the development and revision process, technical committees, working groups, and the stakeholder surveys that they've done recently to understand implementation.

Toolkit: Building energy efficiency policies

Presentation
Authors:
Philip Cornell

The content of these slides was to identify, prioritise and quantify these policy options for interventions to rapidly increase energy efficiency during the change of government and the incoming government. The purpose is to teach emerging professionals in the emerging economies about building energy efficiency policies that can be used to reduce energy use in buildings. This course will include information that has been examined in IEA’s policy pathway series and the sustainable buildings book.  Trainers: Brian Dean, Ksenia Petrichenko and Adam Hinge

Energy codes 101: benefits for the residential real estate industry

Presentation
Authors:
Alison Lindburg

Building energy codes lay out the minimum requirements for the envelope (insulation, windows and air sealing), mechanical equipment and lighting of a building (residential and commercial) in terms of energy efficiency/conservation for new construction or major renovations. National model energy codes are updated every three years to incorporate continual improvements in building efficiency in a collaborative, transparent process by a diverse group of stakeholders.

Building energy policy in NYC: the existing building challenge

Presentation
Authors:
Gina Bocra

This is a presentation for U.S. Department of Energy 2017 National energy codes conference July 18—20, 2017 Pittsburgh, PA. USA. 

The slides presented a case study about the impact of carbon policy changes in NYC on the existing buildings and energy code in NYC. 

As a result, several other existing building codes and policies in NYC has to be amended accordingly:  

Level(s) – A common EU framework of core sustainability indicators for office and residential buildings (Part 3)

Technical report
Authors:
Nicholas Dodd,
Mauro Cordella,
Marzia Traverso,
Shane Donatello

This document is the companion to parts 1 and 2 of the guidance on how to use Level(s). In part 1 a general introduction to Level(s) is provided, together with in Part 2 an overview of the macro-objectives, performance indicators and the three Levels of performance assessment (Level(s) - Part 1 and 2). The three Levels are:

Estimating the national carbon abatement potential of city policies: A data-driven approach

Technical report
Authors:
Eric O’Shaughnessy,
Jenny Heeter,
David Keyser,
Pieter Gagnon,
Alexandra Aznar

Cities are increasingly taking actions such as building code enforcement, urban planning, and public transit expansion to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide in their communities and municipal operations. However, many cities lack the quantitative information needed to estimate policy impacts and prioritize city actions in terms of carbon abatement potential and cost effectiveness. This report fills this research gap by providing methodologies to assess the carbon abatement potential of a variety of city actions.

Toolkit: Enabling investment with energy efficiency policies

Presentation
Authors:
Brian Dean,
Autiff Sayyed

The slides were to teach the fundamentals of energy efficiency policies that can be used to reduce energy use in buildings and how energy efficiency policies can enable effective investment and finance for energy efficiency in buildings. 

Energy efficiency policy toolkit

Presentation
Authors:
Joe Ritchie

Slide presentation capturing a broad spectrum of industry-based energy efficiency policies. Energy efficiency options for the building sector include regulation, information and incentives.     

Resilience at US Green Building Council (USGBC)

Presentation
Authors:
United States Green Building Council

The powerpoint presentation gives an overview of how resilience could align with USGBC's mission. Outline of the resilience-enhancing strategies within LEED and each of GBCI's rating systems, links to USGBC resilience collateral, etc. LEED, PEER, SITES, RELi, GRESB and LEED for Cities (including STAR). The building codes in GBCI are aligned with LEED Cities, which aims to achieve sustainability goals outline with the policies. STAR aims at achieving practical engagements with the community about actions on 'climate change guide'.

Building code energy performance trajectory: Interim technical report

Technical report
Authors:
Paul Bannister,
Duane Robinson,
Luke Reedman,
Philip Harrington,
Sam Moffitt,
Hongsen Zhang,
Paul Cooper,
Zhenjun Ma,
Laia Ledo Gomis,
Lewis Green

This report is the Interim Technical Report for the Building Code Energy Performance Trajectory Project. It accompanies the Interim Synthesis Report for the Building Code Energy Performance Trajectory Project, entitled The Bottom Line – the household impacts of delaying improved energy requirements in the Building Code and which was published on the 8th of February 2018, providing more detail on the assumptions behind and the preliminary results from the underlying modelling work.

The report provides the following key items:

Did it work: Evaluating the multiple benefits of energy efficiency

Presentation
Authors:
International Energy Agency,
BEEP,
UCL Energy Institute

The presentation guide policymakers on the fundamentals of how to evaluate both energy and non-energy benefits (the multiple benefits) of energy efficiency for buildings. Previous case studies that have been completed were compared to evaluate the monetised value of energy efficiency measures using numerous categories for multiple benefits.

Trainers: Brian Dean and John Dulac
 

Mapping of existing technologies to enhance energy efficiency in buildings in the UNECE region (presentation)

Presentation
Authors:
Kankana Dubey,
Andrey Dodonov

A workshop on validation of preliminary results of mapping of existing technologies to enhance energy efficiency buildings, including gap analysis and recommendations for their use in the region is held under the auspices of the Joint Task Force on Energy Efficiency Standards in Buildings and serves as the third meeting of the Joint Task Force. The Committee on Sustainable Energy and the Committee on Housing and Land Management established the Joint Task Force on Energy Efficiency Standards in Buildings in 2015.

Toolkit: Energy efficient building technologies

Presentation
Authors:
International Energy Agency,
UCL Energy Institute,
BEEP

Slide presentation documenting fundamentals of building technologies and energy efficiency products to reduce energy use in buildings.

Trainers: John Dulac and Brian Dean 

Final energy savings analysis of the proposed NYStretch-Energy Code 2018

Technical report
Authors:
Yan Chen,
Bing Liu,
Jian Zhang,
Michael Rosenberg,
Jim Edelson,
Mark Lyles

In 2017, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) developed its 2016 Stretch Code Supplement to the 2016 New York State Energy Conservation Construction Code. Since 2017, NYSERDA has continued to develop the 2018 edition, as part of the efforts to achieve a statewide Net Zero Energy Code by 2028.

Validating and improving the BASIX energy assessment tool for low-carbon dwellings: final report

Technical report
Authors:
Lan Ding,
Anir Kumar Upadhyay,
William Craft,
Komali Yenneti,
Marini Samaratunga,
Krishna Munsami,
Deo Prasad

This report is a product of the collaborative research project ‘Validating and Improving the BASIX Assessment Tool for Low-Carbon Dwellings’. Initiated by the Cooperative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the New South Wales Government, this project addresses the policy need for post-occupancy evaluation of the BASIX tool by measuring the actual energy consumption of BASIX-compliant dwellings.

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