Building Codes in Caribbean
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1 - Energy Conservation and Efficiency 1.3: Building Sector
Best Practice examples ± Building Code
± CROSQ: is currently preparing a regional Building standard based on ICC standards. CROSQ is collaborating with the Council of Caribbean Engineering Organisations (CCEO), the Association of Commonwealth Societies of Architects of the Caribbean (ACSAC), the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) in order to facilitate the development of the Regional Building Standard under this project ± Jamaica is developing a New Building Code based international codes developed by the International Code Council tailored to suit Jamaican conditions. This building code will be compulsory for residential and commercial buildings . It will address energy used for: AC, Lighting, Appliances, Insulation, Solar and thermal gains... expected energy savings of 30% for office buildings ± Barbados: a National Building Code promoting energy efficiency and energy conservation is under preparation. It should become mandatory for all new buildings ± And in St Lucia?
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1 - Energy Conservation and Efficiency 1.3: Building Sector
Best Practice examples ± Building certification schemes
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1 - Energy Conservation and Efficiency 1.3: Building Sector
Best Practice examples ± Building certification schemes
± Hotel sector:
Financial Reasons: Decrease in operating costs of the hotel Marketing reasons Comfort Cut in emissions and environmental footprint: Carbon emissions, Solid and liquid waste, water
± Commercial sector: Energy label Scheme in Brazil
The proposed building label will be a voluntary scheme for commercial and office buildings. But is likely to become a compulsory regime after 5 years The labelling in Brazil will go further than the US or European building rating systems as it will provide individual ratings for lighting, mechanical systems and the building shell. The Government expects to promote actively Energy Efficiency measures through the display of the Energy performances of the new commercial buildings.
± Residential sector: compulsory energy rating of residential premises when sold or rent all over Europe, to raise awareness amongst buildings¶ users.
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1 - Energy Conservation and Efficiency 1.3: Building Sector
Best Practice examples : Barbados: Solar Water Heating programme: The success Story
± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± about 50,000 SWH installed for a population of 273,000 The 2nd highest SWH penetration in the world ± 40% The SWH are produced locally, creating jobs opportunity in the µGreen Sector¶ This success was possible as the Government implemented the right policy and the good incentives at the right time. The private sector was highly involved in the implementation of the programme Waiver of taxes on raw materials to manufacturers Maintenance of high taxes on electric heaters (60%) to improve SWH competitiveness Allowing a 100% tax rebate on income taxes to households purchasing a SWH (up to $3,500) Retrofitting into the hotel industry: a $10million fund was created to assist the hotel industry to ³greenify´ their operations and hotels borrowing from the Barbados National Bank are required to carry out energy audits, often suggesting the installation of SWH Payback period in Barbados § 2.5 years Benefits to economy of approximately US$ 10 million / year (avoided fossil fuel costs of producing 128GWh of electricity)
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1 - Energy Conservation and Efficiency 1.5: Labelling
Other good practice actions in the energy performance / efficiency labelling sector:
± SVG: awareness campaign designed for the civil society on appliances ± Barbados: proposed to introduce a mandatory energy efficiency labelling for all appliances ± Belize: proposed to establish technical specifications for imported goods using an international labelling system ± Dominica is proposing to set incentives and standards to encourage appliances imported to import only EE products and label them in an appropriate way ± Anguilla is about to introduce labels to identify EE appliances. And verify the labels through a suggested regional standard agency, such as CROSQ ± Bermuda is as well considering introducing minimum energy efficiency standards for lighting, appliances, AC... ± And in St Lucia, what about:
Playing a more active role within CROSQ to set energy efficiency standards? Reinforcing Bureau of Standards capacity to allow the agency setting its own performance requirements and verify the efficiency of products entering the island? Training the appliances retailers on EE and its related financial savings? If unable to create its own or a regional labelling scheme why not adopting an international one such as Energy Star, or the EU Energy Label?
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1 - Energy Conservation and Efficiency 1.5: Labelling
Labelling Best Practice: Energy Efficient Label ± PROCEL in Brazil
± The label was introduced in 1993, it aims to distinguish the most efficient products among those labelled for a given year ± The labelling scheme has 2 goals:
Guide the consumer to purchase the most efficient appliance Stimulate the national manufacturers to produce more efficient products
± Covers refrigerator, freezers, AC, SWH, light bulbs, motors, electric showers, washing machines, boilers, TVs, light vehicles, screens... It will cover wind turbines, microwave ovens, heat pumps... ± It started as a voluntary programme but should become mandatory in 2011. ± The industry associations have been involved in the project ± All equipments should have minimum energy efficiency indexes ± It labels active and standby modes ± The TV labelling was estimated to save: 540GWh/year, peak power shaving of 135MW
Source: http://www.eedal.eu/fileadmin/eedal2009/presentations/Televisions_and_Consumer_Electronics/126_Pollis.pdf
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Best Practice examples ± Building Code
± CROSQ: is currently preparing a regional Building standard based on ICC standards. CROSQ is collaborating with the Council of Caribbean Engineering Organisations (CCEO), the Association of Commonwealth Societies of Architects of the Caribbean (ACSAC), the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) in order to facilitate the development of the Regional Building Standard under this project ± Jamaica is developing a New Building Code based international codes developed by the International Code Council tailored to suit Jamaican conditions. This building code will be compulsory for residential and commercial buildings . It will address energy used for: AC, Lighting, Appliances, Insulation, Solar and thermal gains... expected energy savings of 30% for office buildings ± Barbados: a National Building Code promoting energy efficiency and energy conservation is under preparation. It should become mandatory for all new buildings ± And in St Lucia?
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1 - Energy Conservation and Efficiency 1.3: Building Sector
Best Practice examples ± Building certification schemes
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1 - Energy Conservation and Efficiency 1.3: Building Sector
Best Practice examples ± Building certification schemes
± Hotel sector:
Financial Reasons: Decrease in operating costs of the hotel Marketing reasons Comfort Cut in emissions and environmental footprint: Carbon emissions, Solid and liquid waste, water
± Commercial sector: Energy label Scheme in Brazil
The proposed building label will be a voluntary scheme for commercial and office buildings. But is likely to become a compulsory regime after 5 years The labelling in Brazil will go further than the US or European building rating systems as it will provide individual ratings for lighting, mechanical systems and the building shell. The Government expects to promote actively Energy Efficiency measures through the display of the Energy performances of the new commercial buildings.
± Residential sector: compulsory energy rating of residential premises when sold or rent all over Europe, to raise awareness amongst buildings¶ users.
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1 - Energy Conservation and Efficiency 1.3: Building Sector
Best Practice examples : Barbados: Solar Water Heating programme: The success Story
± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± about 50,000 SWH installed for a population of 273,000 The 2nd highest SWH penetration in the world ± 40% The SWH are produced locally, creating jobs opportunity in the µGreen Sector¶ This success was possible as the Government implemented the right policy and the good incentives at the right time. The private sector was highly involved in the implementation of the programme Waiver of taxes on raw materials to manufacturers Maintenance of high taxes on electric heaters (60%) to improve SWH competitiveness Allowing a 100% tax rebate on income taxes to households purchasing a SWH (up to $3,500) Retrofitting into the hotel industry: a $10million fund was created to assist the hotel industry to ³greenify´ their operations and hotels borrowing from the Barbados National Bank are required to carry out energy audits, often suggesting the installation of SWH Payback period in Barbados § 2.5 years Benefits to economy of approximately US$ 10 million / year (avoided fossil fuel costs of producing 128GWh of electricity)
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1 - Energy Conservation and Efficiency 1.5: Labelling
Other good practice actions in the energy performance / efficiency labelling sector:
± SVG: awareness campaign designed for the civil society on appliances ± Barbados: proposed to introduce a mandatory energy efficiency labelling for all appliances ± Belize: proposed to establish technical specifications for imported goods using an international labelling system ± Dominica is proposing to set incentives and standards to encourage appliances imported to import only EE products and label them in an appropriate way ± Anguilla is about to introduce labels to identify EE appliances. And verify the labels through a suggested regional standard agency, such as CROSQ ± Bermuda is as well considering introducing minimum energy efficiency standards for lighting, appliances, AC... ± And in St Lucia, what about:
Playing a more active role within CROSQ to set energy efficiency standards? Reinforcing Bureau of Standards capacity to allow the agency setting its own performance requirements and verify the efficiency of products entering the island? Training the appliances retailers on EE and its related financial savings? If unable to create its own or a regional labelling scheme why not adopting an international one such as Energy Star, or the EU Energy Label?
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1 - Energy Conservation and Efficiency 1.5: Labelling
Labelling Best Practice: Energy Efficient Label ± PROCEL in Brazil
± The label was introduced in 1993, it aims to distinguish the most efficient products among those labelled for a given year ± The labelling scheme has 2 goals:
Guide the consumer to purchase the most efficient appliance Stimulate the national manufacturers to produce more efficient products
± Covers refrigerator, freezers, AC, SWH, light bulbs, motors, electric showers, washing machines, boilers, TVs, light vehicles, screens... It will cover wind turbines, microwave ovens, heat pumps... ± It started as a voluntary programme but should become mandatory in 2011. ± The industry associations have been involved in the project ± All equipments should have minimum energy efficiency indexes ± It labels active and standby modes ± The TV labelling was estimated to save: 540GWh/year, peak power shaving of 135MW
Source: http://www.eedal.eu/fileadmin/eedal2009/presentations/Televisions_and_Consumer_Electronics/126_Pollis.pdf
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