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Identifying macro-objectives for the life cycle environmental performance and resource efficiency of EU buildings

Working paper
Authors:
Nicholas Dodd,
Shane Donatello,
Elena Garbarino,
Miguel Gama-Caldas

This working paper brings together the findings of the first stage in this study, which focusses on the identification of 'macro-objectives' for the environmental performance of the EU building stock. This stage is intended to provide an initial 'top down' view of what the strategic priorities (the 'macro-objectives') should be for the building sector.

The EnergyFit Homes Initiative Working Paper 8: Home Energy Efficiency Stakeholder Map

Working paper
Authors:
Henry Adams,
Matthew Clark

Executive Summary Scope and objectives This report provides the findings from the stakeholder-mapping stage the EnergyFit Homes Initiative phase 1. The objectives of this phase were to develop a map of the relevant stakeholders and to understand their perspectives of the need, scope and implantation of a national home energy efficiency information framework. A secondary objective of this stage was to begin to build consensus and a coalition of support for options to be built on in the next stage. This is the penultimate research stage of Phase 1.

Pathways to zero energy buildings through building codes

Working paper
Authors:
Christopher Perry

Designers can use superior building design and energy management strategies to create buildings that produce at least as much energy as they consume. These are called zero energy buildings (ZEBs). ZEBs exist in the United States and Canada now; however building energy codes will have to be continuously improved to achieve widespread ZEBs by 2030, a common goal of many cities and some states.

The distributional effects of building energy codes

Working paper
Authors:
Chris Bruegge,
Tatyana Deryugina,
Erica Myers

State-level building energy codes have been around for over 40 years, but recent empirical research has cast doubt on their effectiveness. A potential virtue of standards-based policies is that they may be less regressive than explicit taxes on energy consumption. However, this conjecture has not been tested empirically in the case of building energy codes.

Accelerating building decarbonization: eight attainable policy pathways to net zero carbon buildings for all

Working paper
Authors:
Renilde Becque,
Debbie Weyl,
Emma Stewart,
Eric Mackres,
Luting Jin,
Xufei Shen

Buildings that emit no greenhouse gas emissions during their operation are vital to meeting the SDGs and Paris Agreement targets. But in the past, zero carbon buildings have been assumed to be only attainable by technologically advanced or wealthy countries. New WRI research finds there are policy pathways to reach zero carbon buildings regardless of location or development status. The report identifies eight pathways countries can take to reach zero carbon buildings by reducing energy demand and cleaning energy supply.

Residential building codes do save energy: evidence from hourly smart-meter data

Working paper
Authors:
Kevin Novan,
Aaron Smith,
Tianxia Zhou

In 1978, California adopted building codes designed to reduce the energy used for heating, cooling, and water heating in buildings. Using a rich dataset of hourly electricity consumption for 158,112 California houses during 2012-13, this paper estimates that single-family homes built from 1980 through 1982 consumed on average 13% less electricity for cooling than premises constructed between 1975 through 1977. This estimate is similar to projected cooling-energy savings made using engineering models at the time the codes were enacted.

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