Implementing organisation: IMT

Status: ongoing

Description:
In 1994, Moscow adopted a building code to improve the energy efficiency of buildings.  In the years since, 49 of Russia’s 89 regions have followed Moscow’s lead to reduce the heating requirements of buildings.  In 2003, The Russian Federation passed legislation on energy efficiency, similar legislation was adopted by Kazakhstan in 2004.  The new building codes have transformed markets and resulted in major manufacturing changes within wall panel, insulation and window factories.

 In the next five years, Russia alone will build approximately 250 million square metres of new residential buildings.  All new residential and commercial buildings are subject to Russia’s new codes.  Anecdotal observations indicate that compliance is surprisingly high.

This project improves compliance with new building codes and provide training and resources to enable designers and architects to go beyond compliance.  It will also target building officials, providing them skills for improved implementation and enforcement of codes, as well as lay the groundwork for further code improvements.

The project accelerates the pace of CO2 emission reductions and save Russian and Kazakh consumers millions of Euros.  Compliance manuals will also be produced and successful financial incentives utilised by Moscow will be replicated elsewhere.