Conferencier: Thorkild Ærø, Director of Danish Building Research Institute, AAU
09.30 Registration, coffee & croissant
10.00 Welcome and introduction: ’A new direction for revising national and EU building regulations’. Professor Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Danish Building Research Institute, AAU.
10.10 Building regulations, energy planning and the performance gap – the perspective of the DHC sector Policy and Project Officer Ingo Wagner, Euroheat & Power.
10.30 Rebound effect and performance gaps in home heating. Dr Ray Galvin, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.
10.50 Coffee break
11.10 Instruments for reducing energy consumption in the building sector. Niels Bruus Varming, The Danish Transport and Construction Agency.
11.30 Portugal’s experience with building regulations in the context of a mild climate. Professor Eduardo Maldonado, Dep. Mechanical Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal.
11.50 The Danish goals for energy reductions – and how to reach them. Renato Ezban, Chief Consultant at The Danish Energy Agency.
12.10 Lunch
13.10 Governance, building regulation and users: new challenges. Editor Richard Lorch, Building Research & Information.
13.30 Plugging the gap? Understanding households and everyday life. Dr Yolande Strengers, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne Australia.
13.50 Catalysing energy saving in a local community by reaching out beyond. Director Peter Rathje, ProjectZero.
14.10 Experience from energy retrofit and new buildings: going beyond compliance. Jørgen Søndermark, Realdania Byg.
14.30 Coffee break.
15.00 Panel discussion with the presenters: Problems, potentials and bottlenecks in reducing energy consumption in buildings. Moderator: Thorkild Ærø.
16.00-17.30 Retrofitting a prison – Guided social tour at 'Fængslet’ Horsens’ former State Prison.
This one-day conference with a focus on reframing policy is followed by a research workshop with discussions of what topics are next on the agenda related to understanding and reducing energy consumption from buildings inhabited by real people.