• 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