📋 Tender Overview
The requirements for Nearly Energy Neutral Buildings BENG were published in the Belgian Official Gazette. BENG sets three requirements for new buildings to reduce energy consumption. BENG must ensure better energy performance of all new buildings. This makes an important contribution to the Paris climate goals and the agreements in the Energy Agreement. BENGBENG is an important step to limit the energy demand of buildings. Instead of one the new requirements set three requirements for buildings namely energy requirements primary fossil energy use and the share of renewable energy. Because fossil fuels are finite and environmentally harmful the European Union encourages in addition to saving energy investing in renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy. By generating energy and working towards a single European energy network energy must become cleaner and cheaper.Current EPC requirementThe current requirement for a new EPC Energy Performance Coefficient does not set separate requirements on the outside of a building as the BENG requirements do. Also the share of renewable energy the use of energy from sun wind or water is now not a separate requirement. As a result it may be that poor insulation of a building can be compensated with solar panels. The EPC requirement does not take into account the energy loss of a building due to its shape.
