Strategies and Policies to Improve the Energy Performance of Buildings
Chair: Renato D’Alençon Castrillón, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Policies to improve the energy performance of the building stock
- Analyses of the efficacy of policies
- Development of future scenarios to stimulate the adoption of energy techniques and measures
Bram Entrop, Dep. of Construction Management and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands
- The current code in New Zealand
- The market
- International practice
Irene Boles, Dep. of Engineering and Architectural Studies, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, New Zealand
- Santiago’s climatic situation
- Regulations
- Energy performance of office buildings
Claudio Vásquez Zaldívar, Escuela de Arquitectura Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Removing obstacles focusing on the user's interest
- Improving the awareness of refurbishment goals
- Sustainable reasons to convince owners and users
Carmen Alonso, Dep. of Construction, CSIC Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain
- The TU Delft submission to the Solar Decathlon 2014, focused on Dutch row-housing
- Sustainable renovations of post-war Dutch row-houses to energy neutral dwellings
- Essential aspects of the business case for sustainable renovation
Bob Bogers, Dep. of Real Estate & Housing, Faculty of Architecture, University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
- Optimisation of refurbishment alternatives of building envelope
- Application of dynamic energy simulation to representative building models
- Refurbishment alternatives considering the effect of energy reduction on thermal comfort
Özlem Duran, School of Civil and Building Engineering, Centre for Doctoral Research in Energy Demand, London, United Kingdom
15:30 Coffee Break