Handbook on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

As Asia’s building sector booms, this handbook provides practical tools and guidance to design, evaluate, and finance energy efficient building projects to help make the sector greener and more resilient. Explaining how energy efficient construction can help reduce costs, lower emissions, and improve affordability, the handbook offers practical guidance and tools, covers key project cycle stages, and delves into sustainable heating and cooling strategies. It details ways to improve procurement, monitoring and evaluation of energy efficiency measures in the building sector while underscoring the need for governments and the private sector to work together to help transition toward a zero-carbon building stock.