2
Fully fitted
2
Simple building
Not applicable
Shell & core
Not applicable
Shell only
No minimum standards
To encourage installation of energy efficient equipment to ensure optimum performance and energy savings in operation.
Value
- Reduce unregulated energy consumption loads based on the building’s usage and occupants patterns.
- Promote a better understanding of unregulated energy consumption for the significantly consuming systems, thereby reducing the performance gap.
Context
The current building regulations do not account for all energy uses in buildings and aim to address regulated energy consumption. Unregulated sources of energy consumption such as swimming pools, server rooms, commercial and domestic-scale appliances, are rarely considered and modelled at the design stage. However, they can have significant impact on the energy use. In an office building for instance, they typically account for more than 30% of the energy consumption1. It is important to encourage solutions that result in unregulated energy reduction, which is variable between different building types and ignored by current regulatory standards.