Social Housing Net-Zero Energy Renovations With Energy Performance Contract: Incorporating Occupants’ Behaviour

This article examines how the behaviour of occupants is assessed in a project with ambitious targets for energy use reductions and within framework an approach based on performance contract. Its starting point observation that there may be significant disparities between consumption threshold required by regulations or labels actual building its post-delivery existence. While cannot only factor explaining this overconsumption, promoters high-performance renovation operations often marginalise their importance. The recent surge requirements new renovated buildings Europe further exacerbates these problems. In light challenges, strong demand compulsory verification performances developing contracts. context, building’s can no longer considered as simple adjustment variable. Through analysis Energiesprong, net-zero social housing developed Netherlands France, built around principle contract over long timeframe, highlights injunctions to behavioural changes, strategies, negotiations, adjustments deployed leaders. It finally shows still way go before occupant’s high-energy fully taken into account.