The EPB standards have been developed with a coherent set of common technical rules to ensure consistency, transparency, and flexibility. These common rules are essential for the implementation of the standards and provide a framework for assessing the overall energy performance of buildings.
The rules include common terms, definitions, symbols, and a clearly structured modular approach that facilitates implementation and national or regional adaptation.
Basic Principles
Energy Performance of Buildings - Basic Principles for the set of EPB standards;
Basic Principles
Energy Performance of Buildings - Basic Principles for the set of EPB standards;
Technical rules are the basis for a number of tools:
01
A common template for each EPB standard, including specific drafting instructions for the relevant clauses;
02
A common template for each technical report that accompanies an EPB standard or a cluster of EPB standards, including specific drafting instructions for the relevant clauses;
03
A common template for the spreadsheet that accompanies each EPB standard, to demonstrate the correctness of the EPB calculation procedures.
04
By definition, each EPB standard, both in CEN and ISO, has to comply with the requirements given in ISO 52000 1 (the overarching EPB standard) and the above mentioned Basic Principles and Detailed Technical Rules documents.