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dc.contributor.authorSund, Nina Kristin
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-03T06:25:21Z
dc.date.available2014-09-03T06:25:21Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/218594
dc.description.abstractThe focus of this thesis is the energy requirements in the Norwegian technical Building Regulation. In 2015, these energy requirements are expected to be tightened. The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate whether this planned tightening of the energy requirements is likely to be positive for the society as a whole. This will be the case if the increased social benefits associated with the stricter energy requirements exceed the increased social costs related to these requirements. In order to evaluate whether this will be the case, a cost-benefit analysis was conducted. In this cost-benefit analysis, some of the major costs and benefits associated with the tightening of the energy requirements were assessed. The energy requirements in TEK10 represented the current requirements, and the energy requirements in the Passive House Standard represented the stricter energy requirements. Hence, the costs and benefits associated with a building that meets the energy requirements in TEK10 and a building with the Passive House Standard were estimated and compared. This was done for four different building types; a sports building, a kindergarten, a school building, and an office building. In order to evaluate whether the tightening of the energy requirements is likely to be positive for the society as a whole, the net social benefits were calculated for each building type. These net social benefits were then discounted in order to find the net present value. The net present value turned out to be positive for all building types. It is therefore expected that the increased benefits associated with stricter energy requirements will exceed the increased costs. Hence, the tightening of the energy requirements is expected to be positive for the society as a whole. A tightening of the energy requirements in the Technical Building Regulation can therefore be recommended.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.titleEnergy requirements for Norwegian commercial buildings : an assessment of the major social costs and benefits associated with stricter energy requirements in the technical building regulationnb_NO
dc.typeMaster thesisnb_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Business: 213nb_NO
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