A holistic approach at the overall energy performance of a building

The AAC industry supports this initiative wholeheartedly as its products are among the building blocks for increased urbanization. A major challenge before us is to ensure that increased urbanization does not come to the detriment of our environment.

Many of our industry’s efforts revolve around a question how to build affordable highly efficient buildings, also called near Zero Energy Buildings. We need a holistic approach that looks at the overall energy performance of a building, to achieve highly energy efficient buildings. The use of on-site or district-level renewable energy is required to create cost-optimal solutions. Moving away from individual solutions towards the district level can further optimise these solutions and provide more flexibility to adapt to local conditions.