EFES – Energy Efficiency of Settlements

Countries

Employer

Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology

Project partner

Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning, pos Architects

Time frame

2009 - 2010

Project website

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Project description

The project aims at developing tools for measuring the energy efficiency of existing and planned settlements. Therefore spatial planning instruments are assessed concerning their effects on energy efficiency and recommendations for new measures are given.

Service catalogue

Module 1: Identification of criteria for measuring the energy efficiency of settlements
Module 2: Setting up of an evaluation tool incl. test runs (four settlements)
Module 3: Specification of potential steering instruments incl. recommendations
Module 4: Impact analysis of the dynamic system model
Module 5: Communication with relevant stakeholders and consideration of feedback

mecca-Experts

All references with: Hannes Schaffer
All references with: Hartmut Dumke
All references with: Stefan Plha

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