British Isles Regional Group Workshop, Dublin, November 2005

EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD)

Energy Performance Certificates for Non Domestic Buildings

Date : Wednesday, 2nd November 2005
Venue: Urban Institute Ireland, Richview, University College Dublin

9:00 Registration and Coffee

9.15 Welcome and Introduction. J.O. Lewis, University College Dublin

9.30 EPBD implementation and Plans for Non-domestic Building Certification in Ireland (Kevin O’Rourke, Sustainable Energy Ireland).

10.00 Managing and tracking the energy use in a large building stock (Conor Clarke, OPW)

10.30 Questions and answers

10.45 Coffee

11.00 Certification of Buildings using their ‘Asset Rating’. BESTCert Approach (Patxi Hernandez, UCD Energy Research Group).

11.30 Certification of Occupied Buildings using their ‘Operational Rating’. EPLABEL Approach (Robert Cohen, ESD, UK).

12.15 Discussion

13.00 Lunch