This article examines how the behaviour of occupants is assessed in a project with ambitious targets for energy use reductions and within framework an approach based on performance contract. Its starting point observation that there may be significant disparities between consumption threshold required by regulations or labels actual building its post-delivery existence. While cannot only factor...

Abstract The European Commission strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate-neutral economy by 2050 outlines main blocks to maximise the benefits of energy efficiency, including zero emission buildings deployment renewables use electricity fully decarbonise Europe’s supply. following EU Climate Target Plan 2030 underlines, once again even more urgently than in ...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com is not the same as in the past. In the past materials have been evaluated on the basis of their physical properties. Today, the integrated design process looks at performance of a building as a system with materials interacting and contributing to the performance of the system. Effectively, even though our testing methodology is still based on compa...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com is not the same as in the past. In the past materials have been evaluated on the basis of their physical properties. Today, the integrated design process looks at performance of a building as a system with materials interacting and contributing to the performance of the system. Effectively, even though our testing methodology is still based on compa...