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Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Meeting the G8 Gleneagles Challenge

Location and date(s) of workshop:	IEA, Paris: 27-28 November 2006

Organiser(s):	International Energy Agency IEA’s Standing Group on Long-Term Co-operation (SLT) IEA’s Committee on Energy Research & Technology (CERT)

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Background:	At the request of the IEA Governing Board, the SLT and CERT convened a joint workshop addressing energy efficiency in buildings and drawing on the expertise of the IEA’s Energy-Efficiency and End-Use Working Parties and the IEA’s Implementing Agreements on buildings technology RD&D. The workshop explored key technology and policy themes relating to energy efficiency in buildings. The workshop’s findings and recommendations contributed to: - Preparations for the 2007 IEA Ministerial Meeting - The IEA’s response to its mandate under the G8’s Gleneagles Plan of Action on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development - The orientation and design of policies for energy performance in buildings within IEA Member countries - The future direction of IEA buildings-related Implementing Agreements and international buildings R&D efforts - Potential international initiatives in this general area

Links to relevant documents:	Workshop Announcement Agenda

Proceedings:	Potentials, technologies and indicators for energy efficiency in buildings Welcome Claude Mandil, Executive Director, International Energy Agency Background and expected output Alicia Mignone, ENEA, Vice Chair, Committee on Energy Research & Technology G8 Gleneagles Challenge: IEA Work Programme on Buildings Wolfgang Stinglwagner, Head of Division, Energy Conservation, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft & Technologie, Germany Recent IEA analyses on efficiency potentials and messages on policies Paul Waide, Senior Analyst, Energy Efficiency and Environment Division, International Energy Agency Session 1: The potential to raise energy efficiency of buildings Chair Neil Hirst, Director, Office of Energy Technology and R&D, International Energy Agency Potentials in the USA Ken Mentzer, President and CEO, North American Insulation Manufacturers Association, United States Potentials in Japan Shuzo Murakami, Professor, Keio Unversity, on behalf of Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport, Japan Potentials in Europe Kees Stap, Managing Director, Ecofys, The Netherlands Session 2: Zero and low energy buildings Chair Egil Öfverholm, IEA End-Use Working Party Vice Chair for Buildings, Sweden The role of R&D in the development of energy efficiency Hans Erhorn, ECBCS IA, Germany Opportunities and challenges for the private sector in Zero Energy Buildings Christian Kornevall, Director, Energy Efficiency in Building Projects, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland Public policy to encourage low energy buildings Mark Ginsberg, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, United States Department of Energy Session 3: Energy performance indicators for buildings Chair Noé Van Hulst, Director, Long-Term Co-operation and Policy Analysis Office, International Energy Agency The role of indicators for policy design Takehiko Matsuo, Counsellor, The Permanent Delegation of Japan to the OECD, On behalf of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Overview of past work on building energy efficiency indicators Fridtjof Unander, Deputy Director, ENOVA, Norway State of the art in analysis of building energy efficiency indicators Dr. Wolfgang Eichhammer, Deputy Head, Department of Energy Policy and Energy Systems, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany Developing future building energy performance indicators Jens Laustsen, Building Policy Analyst, Energy Efficiency and Environment Division, International Energy Agency Economics, barriers and good policy practice of energy-efficiency in buildings Session 4: The economics of and barriers to building energy-efficiency Chair Wolfgang Stinglwagner, Chair of IEA Energy Efficiency Working Party, Germany Societal economic benefits from optimised building energy performance: what’s at stake Paul Davidson, Building Research Establishment, Vice Chair, IEA Demand Side Management Implementing Agreement, United Kingdom The economic self-interest of individual actors in the building energy life cycle: understanding the barriers to reaching societal economic optimums Martin Jakob, Centre for Energy Policy and Economics CEPE, ETH Zürich, Switzerland What are the barriers to optimised building energy performance in real construction projects? John Goodall, Director, Technical and Environmental Affairs, European Construction Industry Federation, Belgium Session 5: Policy best practice Chair Peter Cunz, Chair of IEA End Use Working Party, Switzerland Opportunities in building energy certification Paula Rice, Sustainable Energy Ireland, Ireland Best practice in building codes David Goldstein, Energy Program Director, Natural Resources Defence Council, United States Unlocking the potential – how should Government and the private sector work together? Kurt Emil Eriksen, President, The European Alliance of Companies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Belgium Session 6: Policy best practice Chair Vincent Berrutto, Head of Unit, Intelligent Energy Executive Agency, Belgium Building energy technology policy Herbert Greisberger, Director,Ö GUT, Austria Capacity building and finance Peter Smith, President and CEO, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, United States How can governments support improved building energy performance – good practise examples. Peter Bach, Danish Energy Authority, Denmark Session 6: Roundtable discussion on issues raised in Day 1 and 2 Chair Paul Waide, Senior Analyst, Energy Efficiency and Environment Division, International Energy Agency