Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Problem formulation and research approach -- Introduction -- Context and goals -- Research questions -- Research methods and sources -- Scope and limitations -- Basic data of the residential and non-residential building stocks -- Organisation of this book -- Energy use in the residential building stock -- Compared final energy consumption in the residential and non-residential buiding stock -- Energy use in the residential building stock -- Conclusions -- Characteristics of the residential building stock -- Introduction -- Ownership structure and stakeholders -- Building types -- Relationship between type of building and tenure -- Regional specificities -- Age of the residential building stock -- Reference buildings -- Match with market demand -- Conclusions -- Physical quality of the residential building stock -- Introduction -- Insulation and type of external walls, roofs, floors and glazing -- Heating and cooling systems -- Domestic hot water -- Ventilation -- Sanitation -- Elevators -- Thermal comfort and health quality -- Conclusions -- Developments in the residential building stock -- Introduction -- New construction and demolition rates -- Relative importance of renovation -- Renovation activities -- Reasons for renovation of residential buildings -- Crucial actors in the renovation process -- Conclusions -- Policies & incentives and barriers & opportunities -- Introduction -- Policies & incentives -- Existing policies and incentives at national level -- Demands on decent housing -- Energy requirements for the residential sector (new and existing) -- European policy -- Barriers & opportunities -- Conclusions -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Characteristics of the residential building stock -- Quality of the residential building stock -- Developments of the residential building stock.

Current policies and incentives -- Current barriers -- Future policies and incentives -- Recommendations -- References -- Appendix A Non-residential building stock -- Introduction -- Ownership structure and stakeholders -- Building types and relationships to tenure -- Age of the non-residential building stock -- Reference buildings -- Energy use -- Quality of the building envelope in the non-residential building stock -- Building services -- Renovation activities -- Appendix B Modernisation and renovation research -- Introduction -- Main focus of sustainable renovation research -- European research projects -- Major ongoing and future research in the field of renovation -- Main current and future research programmes -- Research orientation, funding and research developing organisations and future themes -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix C Energy -- Appendix D Characteristics of the residential building stock -- Appendix E Physical quality of the residential building stock -- Appendix F Developments in the residential building stock -- Appendix G Policies & incentives and barriers & opportunities -- Sustainable Urban Areas.

Never were energy use and security of energy supply as high on the international political agendas as they are now. There seems to be a consensus that energy savings and sustainable energy production must have a high priority. Because the energy use in the residential and non-residential sectors account for a large part of the total energy use, new programs are being developed in order to limit the consumption of energy in these sectors and a lot of attention is put into increasing the energy efficiency of the existing building stock. Towards a Sustainable Northern European Housing Stock is based on a search and inventory of data on the existing Northern-European building stock and related policy developments. In this book, the authors try to give a realistic image of what is really known about the current quality of the building stock, the type of renovation activities that are undertaken and the policies being currently implemented. Recommendations are also made on how to improve the present situation.

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