Information Papers
ASIEPI Information Paper P192
Comparing Energy Performance Requirement Levels: Method and Cross Section Overview
One of the challenging tasks of the ASIEPI project was to develop a method to compare energy performance requirement levels. During this development pilot studies were performed. These give a global impression of the severity of the energy performance requirement levels for dwellings of the participating countries. This information paper describes the comparison method which has been developed during the project and shows the results of the cross section overview.
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ASIEPI Information Paper P164
Developing a method for comparing energy performance requirement levels among Europe
Within the ASIEPI project a methodology was developed to make possible a comparison of energy performance requirement levels among Member States of the EU. An unexpected finding has been that far from all the EU countries consider all energy uses in their energy performance calculation method required by the EPBD (Energy Performance of Buildings Directive). The energy use for fans, domestic hot water and cooling are among the energy uses which are not taken into account by various countries. This largely complicates the comparison over Europe. What also complicates the comparison is that sets of energy saving measures are not equally relevant in all climates in Europe. The paper summarises the difficulties in comparing the national regulations and presents options for the comparison.
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ASIEPI Information Paper P158
A set of reference buildings for energy performance calculation studies
The choice of the building geometry is often one of the first deter-minations during comparison studies of national energy performance requirements. Experiences with realised intercomparisons show that the results are influenced already by this choice as they can depend on the type of the building and because of different calculations methods for floor and envelope areas also on the building geometry. Possible reference buildings from various EU Member States are presented in this paper.
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ASIEPI Information Paper P065
Comparing energy performance requirements over Europe
This information paper summarizes the aims of the study on comparing the energy performance requirement levels between the EU Member States, which is one of the tasks in the ASIEPI project. For everyone involved in the discussion on the comparison of energy performance requirement levels in Europe, it is crucial to understand the challenges involved in this task. Therefore this paper gives an overview of the most important lessons learned from a preliminary comparison study of the EP requirement levels in four Member States.
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Last update : 22-03-2010