ROADMAP FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES IN THE EXISTING BUILDING STOCK

The roadmap for energy efficiency measures in the existing building stock was developedwithin the framework of the European Intelligent Energy Europe programme or moreprecisely in the project ENPER-EXIST, which started in January 2005 and ended in June2007. The project can be summarised as follows:The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) set a series of requirementsspecifically dedicated to existing buildings. But the Member States were facing difficultiesto implement some of them. The main objective of the ENPER-EXIST project was tosupport the take off of the EPBD in the field of existing buildings. This was achieved byworking on three main issues which were faced by Member States in the application of theDirective:- lack of coordination of technical work on existing buildings- lack of coordination of work on non-technical issues especially the impact ofcertification on the market, the human capital and the national administration- insufficient knowledge of the building stockENPER-EXIST used an intensive networking of existing national and international projectsto defragment efforts to solve these three issues. In addition the project defined a roadmapfor future actions regarding existing buildings.