HEB

What problem it solves

HEB (High Efficiency Buildings) model analyses building energy use and CO₂ emissions. This model is novel in its methodology as compared to earlier global energy analyses and reflects the emerging new paradigm – the performance-oriented approach to buildings energy analysis. As opposed to component-oriented methods, a systemic perspective is taken: the performance of whole systems (e.g. whole buildings) is studied and these performance values are used as inputs in the scenarios. This model calculates with the overall energy performance levels of buildings regardless of the measures applied to achieve it. Moreover, this model also captures the diversity of solutions required in each region by having region-specific assumptions about advanced and sub-optimal technology mixes. The elaborated model is in the framework of the bottom-up approach, as it includes rather detailed technological information for one sector of economy, however, it also benefits from certain macroeconomic (GDP) and sociodemographic data (population, urbanization rate, floor area per capita, etc.). This model consider three different scenarios namely Deep Efficiency Scenario, Moderate Efficiency Scenario and Frozen Efficiency Scenario  to investigate the potential of building sector to mitigate climate change through the various opportunities.

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