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Urban efficiency II: seven innovative city programmes for existing building energy efficiency
Urban Efficiency II: Seven Innovative City Programmes for Existing Building Energy Efficiency builds on research in the successful predecessor “Urban Efficiency” Report and captures seven new detailed city case studies from C40 member cities.
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DocumentThe 2019 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard
The State Energy Efficiency Scorecard, now in its 13th edition, ranks states on their policy and program efforts. It assesses performance, documents best practices, and recognizes leadership.
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- Performance approach
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Identifying macro-objectives for the life cycle environmental performance and resource efficiency of EU buildings
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.
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- Energy efficiency and renewable energy
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What are the steps? Building energy codes and standards
This presentation provides a guideline to policymakers on
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- Policy packages
- Taxation mechanisms
Code Requirements
2015 Washington State Energy Code: residential impact assessment
For more than 30 years, the Pacific Northwest has successfully pursued state residential energy codes and building programs to create ever more efficient housing.
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- Code requirements
Inclusion of heating and cooling energy load limits in NatHERS assessments: Regulation Impact Statement for decision
This Decision Regulation Impact Statement (RIS) examines the expected impacts, including costs and benefits, associated with a proposal to add separate heating and cooling load limits or ‘load limits’ to the current Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS) compli
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- Code requirements
A review of roadmaps for transitioning to a zero carbon built environment in Australia
This paper outlines and critically ‘maps’ existing roadmaps relevant to transitions to a low or zero carbon built environment in Australia. A roadmap describes the measures required to achieve goals and/or map future innovation opportunities.
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- Code requirements
The rationale for energy efficiency policy: assessing the recognition of the multiple benefits of energy efficiency retrofit policy
The rationale for energy efficiency policy can be framed in terms of a variety of different benefits. This paper considers how different benefits have been used within the overall rationale for energy efficient retrofit policy in different contexts.
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Residential building codes do save energy: evidence from hourly smart-meter data
In 1978, California adopted building codes designed to reduce the energy used for heating, cooling, and water heating in buildings.
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- Code requirements
- Performance monitoring
- Energy efficiency and renewable energy
- Zero energy target
- Policy packages
Energy codes 101: benefits for the residential real estate industry
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 renovatio
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- Code requirements
- Incentive schemes
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Labelling Schemes
Insight into the property valuer’s perspective of energy efficiency in housing
The research examined the role of energy efficiency initiatives on overall residential property value and explored the ability of residential valuation professionals to incorporate energy efficiency into the valuation process, focusing on their use of currently availabl
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- Labelling schemes
Paying the right price for energy efficient homes
New research finds that people are willing to pay more for energy efficient housing, making the case for a mandatory national rating system for existing homes.
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- Labelling schemes
Incentive Schemes
Evaluation of actions and policies to reduce urban GHG emissions using multiple criteria: A contribution Towards energy efficiency in British Columbia’s Built Environment
In this report, we evaluate policies to reduce GHG emissions in urban areas according to multiple criteria, based on an extensive literature review.
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- Incentive schemes
Boosting renovation with an innovative service for home-owners
For building owners, the renovation process can be a hassle, shaped by the ambiguity of the measures to implement. Uncertainty is one of the reasons why the renovation rate continues to linger around 1% and private investments remain limited.
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- Incentive schemes
Guide to implementing low carbon retrofits for social housing
This Guide to Implementing Low Carbon Retrofits for Social Housing is intended as a simple to use reference for social housing asset managers and others involved in social housing upgrades.
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- Incentive schemes
Energy codes 101: benefits for the residential real estate industry
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 renovatio
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- Code requirements
- Incentive schemes
- Market instruments
Taxation Mechanisms
Green building policy case studies, New Mexico
First adopted in 2007, and most recently renewed in 2015, New Mexico’s Sustainable Building Tax Credit supports the greening of many building types across the state.
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- Taxation mechanisms
Utility Funded Programmes
Residential dual-fuel programs
Most energy efficiency programs target only one fuel, usually electricity or natural gas. While they achieve savings, they sometimes miss opportunities by failing to address other fuels.
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- Utility funded programmes
Market Instruments
Energy codes 101: benefits for the residential real estate industry
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 renovatio
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- Code requirements
- Incentive schemes
- Market instruments
Renovating Germany’s building stock: An economic appraisal from the investors’ perspective
The creation of a comprehensive policy framework including the lowering of transaction costs, increased energy price signals and targeted subsidies would mean that almost all of the German building stock, except for residential buildings younger than 20 years, could be
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- Market instruments
What are the effects of residential building energy performance disclosure policies on property values?
Objectives of this rapid review The energy usage of a home is often an important factor for people when considering renting or buying. Using an energy performance rating is one way to show how “energy hungry” a home could be.
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Creating an energy efficient mortgage for Europe: the supporting role of the green building sector
This guide from the World Green Building Council’s (WorldGBC’s) Europe network and EeMAP's partner E.ON sets out how they believe the sectors and stakeholders involved in delivering green buildings should support the growth of energy efficient mortgages.
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Maximising your investment: using rating tools to attract sustainable finance for real estate
Sustainable finance has been an area of interest to the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) for some time.
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- Market instruments
- Market instruments
Assistant Building’s addition to Retrofit, Adopt, Cure And Develop the Actual Buildings up to zeRo energy, Activating a market for deep renovation (ABRACADABRA) - toolkit regulatory
The ABRACADABRA project is developing a toolkit, targeting policy makers, with a focus on regulatory challenges and opportunities for boosting energy retrofitting of buildings.
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- Market instruments
- Performance monitoring
- Market instruments
Training and Education
Understanding potential user needs
The iBRoad project aims to eliminate barriers to deep renovation by developing an Individual Building Renovation Roadmap for single-family houses.
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- Training and education
The concept of the individual building renovation roadmap
Roughly 97% of the European Union (EU)’s building stock, amounting to over 30 billion m2, is not considered energy efficient, and 75 to 85% of it will still be in use in 2050.
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- Training and education
Low Carbon Residential Refurbishments in Australia: Progress and Prospects
Recognising both the recent surge in interest in low carbon refurbishments of residential buildings and the diversity of emergent terminology and perspectives, the authors set out definitions for key terms and frame a discussion of the phenomenon of refurbishments.
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- Training and education
Performance Monitoring
2019 New York Getting to Zero Status Report
This Getting to Zero Status Report (the Status Report) offers building owners, tenants, design teams, contractors, and policymakers a summary of NZE commercial and multifamily buildings data in New York and how trends across the State compare with the national landscape
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- Performance monitoring
- Performance monitoring
Analysis of energy consumption profiles in residential buildings and impact assessment of a serious game on occupants’ behavior
Highlights
The paper has a focus on energy consumption habits and trends using statistical methods.
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- Performance monitoring
Building energy performance standards project: issues paper
Australia’s current national emissions reduction target is to reduce emissions to 26-28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.
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- Performance monitoring
- Labelling schemes
Driving to outcomes: How evolving energy performance policies impact the building process
Speaker: Ryan Colker, J.D., from the National Institute of Building Sciences Communities are establishing energy performance and/or greenhouse gas emission goals. This requires a new approach to building codes and other policies.
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- Performance monitoring
Residential building codes do save energy: evidence from hourly smart-meter data
In 1978, California adopted building codes designed to reduce the energy used for heating, cooling, and water heating in buildings.
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- Code requirements
- Performance monitoring
- Energy efficiency and renewable energy
- Zero energy target
- Policy packages
Assistant Building’s addition to Retrofit, Adopt, Cure And Develop the Actual Buildings up to zeRo energy, Activating a market for deep renovation (ABRACADABRA) - toolkit regulatory
The ABRACADABRA project is developing a toolkit, targeting policy makers, with a focus on regulatory challenges and opportunities for boosting energy retrofitting of buildings.
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- Market instruments
- Performance monitoring
- Market instruments
