%0 Journal Article
%T Implications of building energy standard for sustainable energy efficient design in buildings
%A Joseph Iwaro
%A Abraham Mwasha
%J International Journal of Energy and Environment
%D 2010
%I International Energy and Environment Foundation (IEEF)
%X The rapid growth of energy use, worldwide, has raised concerns over problems of energy supply, energy sustainability and exhaustion of energy resources. While most of the developed countries are implementing building energy standard rapidly to reduce building energy consumption and moving aggressively to achieve sustainable energy efficient building; the position of developing countries respect to energy standard implementation for this purpose is either poorly documented or not documented at all. Presently, there exists a gap between existing building designs and the increasing demand for sustainable energy efficient building design in developing countries. In that respect, this paper investigates the implementation status of building energy standards in developing countries and its implications for sustainable energy efficient designs in building. The present implementation status of building energy standard in 60 developing countries around the world, were analyzed using online survey. Hence, this study revealed the present implementation status of building energy standards in developing countries, implications for sustainable energy efficient designs in building and how building energy standards can be used to fill the gap between existing building designs and increasing demand for sustainable energy efficient building.
%K Energy
%K Standard
%K Building
%K Developing
%K Conservation
%U http://www.ijee.ieefoundation.org/vol1/issue5/IJEE_01_v1n5.pdf