Buildings: Documents and links
Please find the documents and links related to the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive below, under the following headers:
eceee documents
eceee Maze guides on buildings
- Steering through the Maze #2 (revised) - Understanding (the very European concept of) Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (11 April 2014) (pdf)
- Steering through the Maze #4 - Capturing the collective knowledge base on building retrofit. (6 May 2011) (pdf)
- Steering through the Maze #3 - Frequently asked questions of the recast of the EPBD. (8 November 2010) (pdf)
- Steering through the Maze #2 - Nearly zero energy buildings: achieving the EU 2020 target. (updated 8 February 2011) (pdf)
- Steering through the Maze #1 - The recast of the EPBD. (updated 9 March 2010) (pdf)
eceee other eceee reports
- eceee understanding the economics of renovation (pdf)
eceee archived material from the EPBD recast process
- eceee policy brief (pdf) rev. 18 October 2010
- eceee position on the recast of the EPBD (pdf)
- eceee key issues on the EP vote on EPBD (pdf)
eceee reports and case studies
- Cost optimal building performance requirements (under the cost optimatliy page)
- eceee report on Major renovation – definition in monetary terms, 25 February 2009
Download report (pdf), eceee press release regarding the report - eceee report on Understanding the economics of renovation, 7 September 2009
Download report (pdf), eceee press release regarding the report - eceee case study: Successful building certificates in Portugal and Ireland (pdf)
eceee presentations
- Rod Janssen: The economics of the renovation of buildings: a view from eceee (pdf)
EU documents and links
The Directive and related documents
- The Commission pages on buildings
- Directive 2010/31/EU (EPBD recast 2010, English)
- Directive 2002/91/EC (EPBD 2003, all languages)
- Recast proposal (pdf)
EU links
EU events
Associated links
Other reports
- "Cost-Optimality. Discussing methodology and challenges within the recast Energy Performance of Buildings’ Directive." This publication has been created by the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) in support of the comitology process that started following the EPBD recast (Directive 2010/31/EU). It is targeted at all internal and external stakeholders of this process and explains the background, process and generic principles of the methodology.
Long version (pdf)
Flyer (pdf) - RICS implementation report Towards an Energy Efficient European Building Stock, 2009
