• Webinar & E-Learning 3 May 2017 Options for Incentivizing Voluntary, Above-code Construction (Webinar) - 10.05.2017 This BEA webinar, open to BEA cities and partners, as well as the general public aims to help cities identify incentive types that may work to spur above-code development in their local context. Building on the first webinar from this working group that featured the ‘what and why’ of above-code construction, this webinar looks in greater detail at different policy options intended to stimulate green building in the private sector, and in some cases, the public sector…
• Webinar & E-Learning 14 November 2016 Sustainable Procurement of Buildings: Project Design and Delivery Systems (Webinar) - 02.11.2016 This webinar will provide an overview of how to design and deliver successful sustainable procurement of building efficiency performance measures. Topics will include a local authority perspective on effective public procurement strategies for construction, and a private sector perspective on integrating building efficiency performance measures into responses to tenders (solicitations for services) and the role of voluntary certification programs, such as LEED, within procurement regulations…
• Webinar & E-Learning 11 November 2016 Lessons from 18 months of BEA engagement in Mexico City (Webinar) - 19.10.2016 This BEA partnership webinar describes the process of BEA engagement in Mexico City from March 2015 to now. Mexico City has put in place first-of-their-kind construction regulations that incorporate energy performance as their BEA policy, and will audit and retrofit several public sector buildings as their BEA project. It will provide perspectives from Mexico City, the private sector, and the lead local partner in this engagement. Speakers will reflect on what has been achieved so far, what…
• Tools 19 August 2016 Building Energy Optimization (BEopt™) BEopt is a software tool that can evaluate residential building designs and identify cost-optimal efficiency packages at various levels of whole-house energy savings along the path to zero net energy. It is used to analyse both new construction and existing home retrofits, as well as single-family detached and multi-family buildings, through evaluation of single building designs, parametric sweeps, and cost-based optimizations. Aim To help evaluate building design and cost-optimal…
• Webinar & E-Learning 25 July 2016 Introduction to Sustainable Procurement Principles for Building Efficiency (Webinar) - 19.07.2016 The first of three topical webinars concerning Procurement for Sustainable Buildings. Participants will receive an introduction to Sustainable Procurement principles, based on the ‘Guidebook for Procuring Sustainable Buildings and Construction’ being produced jointly by 10YFP Sustainable Buildings and Construction and Sustainable Public Procurement programmes, specific application for local authorities, and a presentation of select case studies. Funding from the Global Environment Facility…
• Webinar & E-Learning 17 June 2016 Considering Above Code Certification Policies for Your City (Webinar) - 16.06.2016 In support of the Global Building Efficiency Accelerator Platform the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in collaboration with Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2) hosted a no-cost, webinar-based training on above-code green building certification systems and the various benefits they provide to cities, owners, and occupants. The focus of this webinar is to highlight what green building is and why  local governments around the world have elect to promote green building practices…
• Tools 19 January 2016 Typology Approach for Building Stock Energy Assessment The TABULA WebTool has been developed within the framework of the Intelligent Energy Europe projects TABULA and EPISCOPE.The objective is to disseminate the general idea of national residential building typologies to building experts from European countries and to give them an understanding of the concrete implementation according to the TABULA concept http://www.episcope.eu/building-typology/:The division of residential building stocks in size and age classes;Data of exemplary buildings:…

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