Earlier this year, the International Passive House Association introduced a campaign to highlight the importance of energy efficiency.
Called Efficiency: The First Renewable Energy, the campaign is using the hashtag #EfficiencyFirst and aims to demonstrate that energy-efficient buildings provide a comfortable, healthy and sustainable built environment.
Currently, 35 % of global energy consumption stems from the building sector alone. The operational stage is the largest contributor to carbon emissions. The majority of this stemming from heating and cooling demand. The past decade has seen an increased awareness of the need for renewable energy and reducing embodied energy. Using the slogan “Efficiency: The First Renewable Energy”, the #EfficiencyFirst campaign aims to inform the public on a foundational aspect of sustainable buildings that is too often overlooked: energy efficiency.
Over the course of 2021, the iPHA network will be running a series of activities and events. All of them aim to promote the significance of an efficiency first approach to building design; wherein buildings are planned, constructed and retrofitted to have an extremely low heating and cooling demand. Planned activities include a range of talks and informational sessions; explanatory materials for print and online publication; the International Passive House Open Days and more.
The campaign is expected to run until the end of the year 2021.
