Typology Approach

Many energy and building experts are presently facing the same questions:

• What is the level of energy performance of the different building types in the national housing stock?
• How many existing buildings have already been refurbished? Which kinds of measures were applied in the past?
• What is the annual rate of energy refurbishment?
• Which energy saving potentials could theoretically be achieved in the housing stock through existing technologies?
• Can the average relation of calculated and actually measured energy consumption be determined?
• Which refurbishment strategies must be implemented to achieve the national climate protection targets?
• How can the related investment costs and required subsidies be estimated?

Although the building stock situation and the renovation processes are different in each European country, the methods to assess them and to investigate improvement strategies are similar. To discuss these methodological questions, we would like to invite you to participate at the

International Expert Workshop

"Energy Assessment of National Housing Stocks - Building Typologies"

which will take place on

Wednesday, 29th February 2012

in the framework of the „World Sustainable Energy Days 2012“

in Wels / AUSTRIA

participation fee: 100 €

During the workshop experts from different European countries will share insights about their approaches to set up building typologies and housing stock models, to collect the necessary data and statistics and to apply these instruments for the continuous development of policies and measures.

For other events of the “World Sustainable Energy Days 2012 (WSED)” consult: http://www.wsed.at/