Architecture & Built Environment · Sustainable & Environmental Design
A topic within Sustainable & Environmental Design, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
2 works
United Nations Environment Programme & International Energy Agency
Buildings account for over a third of global energy demand and emissions, and the sector is falling further behind the efficiency and decarbonisation trajectory the Paris Agreement requires rather than catching up to it.
41 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026Paul Torcellini, Shanti Pless, Michael Deru & Drury Crawley
Argues that 'net zero energy building' has no single meaning until its measurement boundary, metric and accounting period are fixed, and proposes four rigorous definitions so that competing zero-energy claims can actually be compared.
15 pages