Energy Challenge: Experts' Visions
En Grande-Bretagne, le projet de recherche « Démonstration du potentiel d'efficacité énergétique (DEEP) », financé à hauteur de 3 millions de livres par le gouvernement britannique, est une initiative exemplaire en termes de performance énergétique Il s’agit d’une étude approfondie sur la manière dont les habitations peuvent être rénovées pour les rendre conformes aux normes d'efficacité énergétique.
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“Change will require a systemic approach to modify policies and markets in a synchronized way.”
Professor David Glew is Director of the Leeds Sustainability Institute (LSI) and Head of Energy Efficiency and Policy at Leeds Beckett University. With his team, he conducts research projects on building performance assessment. His work, based on field trials, has been decisive in advancing knowledge of real building performance.
“In Japan, the spread of well-insulated windows is the most important development of the last ten years.”
Professor David Glew is Director of the Leeds Sustainability Institute (LSI) and Head of Energy Efficiency and Policy at Leeds Beckett University. With his team, he conducts research projects on building performance assessment. His work, based on field trials, has been decisive in advancing knowledge of real building performance.
“Rapid transition in the space of a few decades is possible.”
The building renovation unit of Copenhagen supports the retrofit of the city’s existing built environment. Leading the unit is Janus Christoffersen*, who has worked on renewable energy projects aimed at drastically reducing resource use and limiting CO₂ emissions in the city. He shares his on-the-ground expertise with us.
“The construction sector has an essential role to play in integrating renewable energies.”
Hannah Audino leads the Energy Transition Commission’s work on building decarbonization and low-carbon finance. She agreed to share her analysis of the energy challenge facing the construction sector.
“The challenge: massifying energy renovation”
Andreas Rüdinger is Energy Transition France Coordinator at IDDRI, an independent institute whose mission is to place sustainable development at the heart of international relations and public and private policies. At the Sustainable Construction Talk organized in Paris by Saint-Gobain, he spoke on the topic of “Global and sustainable renovation: why and how to change scale?”
