DEEP Stockholm

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Energy efficiency measures in the public building
sector the DEEP project Freiburg, 14 June 2007
Philipp Tepper Sustainable Procurement ICLEI -
Local Governments for Sustainability
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ICLEI an overview

• International association of local authorities
  dedicated to sustainable urban environment
• Organisation founded by local authorities to
  represent them at the strategic level, and assist
  them in developing tools and campaigns for
  sustainability
• Sustainable Procurement team www.iclei-europe.org
  /procurement
• Product groups green electricity, IT devices,
  energy-efficient buildings, low-emission
  transport, organic food, health-oriented cleaning
  services, Fair Trade

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• DEEP Project overview

To develop new and review existing key purchasing
criteria with a view to latest market
developments for green electricity, building
materials, and energy performance.
To promote the opportunities in improving energy
efficiency through high environmental standards
for public office buildings
To apply the criteria in public authorities
throughout Europe through Procura, ICLEIs
Sustainable Procurement Campaign
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Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria
development I

• FIVE fundamental needs to balance
• Real environmental improvement
• Applicable across Europe
• Easy-to-use and practicable for procurers
• Legally valid and possible to verify compliance
• Realistic must be possible for the market to
  meet the demands

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Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria
development II

• Methodology
• Criteria developed by experts in the field, and
  through discussion with stakeholders at a series
  of expert roundtables

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Sustainable construction and public procurement I

• Building environment one of the largest sectors
  where energy is consumed in Europe 40 of final
  energy consumption
• EC research demonstrates that energy efficiency
  improvements could lead to over 40 CO2 emission
  savings
• Construction activities consume more raw
  materials by weight (about 50) than any other
  industrial sector cause the largest waste streams
  (between 40 and 50)

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Sustainable construction and public procurement II
Hurdles to universal EU standards for sustainable
construction

• Differing national calculation methods and
  standards
• Lack of universally valid Lifecycle Assessment
  (LCA) construction tools
• Local/national differences in availability and
  sustainability of materials used
• Different construction procedures
• Different climatic zones

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Sustainable construction and public procurement
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• Results
• One set of universally applicable criteria is not
  possible
• Solution Guidelines presenting several options
  for each issue, depending on the regulatory
  framework in the country and the level of
  expertise in the authority
• see also EPBD (Energy Performance of Buildings
  Directive) country reports www.buildingsplatform.
  org

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Sustainable Construction structure of the
guidelines

• The issue addressed
• Energy consumption
• Use of renewable energy sources (RES)
• Use of sustainable building materials
• Monitoring and user aspects
• Experience of the architect

• The stage of the tendering process
• Preliminary design/architects competition
• Tendering of the building construction
• Tendering of the building services

• The place in the tender document
• Technical specifications
• Award criteria
• Contract conditions

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Sustainable Construction example I
Energy consumption architects competition

• Option 1 - Minimum standards for net energy
  demand (Specification)
• National/regional standards are available
  together with calculation methods, or
• Expertise is available to the authority to set
  standards and select calculation methods

• Option 2 - Competition around shape/volume ratio
  (Award phase)
• Possible without existing standards or expert
  knowledge

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Sustainable Construction example II
Experience of the architect architects
competition

• Selection criteria - Experience with sustainable
  building design
• Energy efficient construction design. Including
  specific energy demand per m² space for previous
  construction
• Airtightness and heat recovery
• Use of RES
• Bioclimatic architecture
• Reference list of used sustainable building
  materials
• Use of LCA tools in design

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Sustainable Construction example III

• Use of renewable energy sources tendering for
  building services

• Option 1 - Minimum percentage of the energy
  demand met by localised RES (Specifications)

• Option 2 - Competition around the percentage of
  energy demand met by localised RES (Award
  criteria)

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Green electricity and public procurement

• Complementary to building and construction sector
• RELIEF project results - if all European public
  authorities purchased green electricity
  reduction of 60 mill. tonnes of CO2-equiv. 18
  of Kyoto commitments
• Challenges in tendering for green electricity
• How to define green electricity?
• How to verify compliance with standards set?

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Specifications for green electricity tender
a) At least 50 of the supplied electricity must
come from renewable energy sources (RES-E).
Eligible sources as defined by EU Directive
2001/77/EC Verification Credible independent
third party (Guarantees of Origin according to
RES-E Directive if possible). Alternatively,
tradable certificates
b) 30 of supplied RES-E must be from new
renewable plants. Definition Plants which came
into operation less than 7 years ago. Or a
commitment to bring a new plant online within the
next 2 years
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Green electricity - award phase
criteria Further recommendations

Bonus points for every additional X the
electricity supplied from RES plants, beyond the
minimum. Bonus points for every additional X
the electricity supplied from new renewable
plants.

• Adopt political commitment at municipal level in
  view of the green electricity tender process.
• To support small green electricity suppliers
  through tenders could be divided in partial lots
• Consider excluding nuclear power
• Request additional energy services (Training,
  awareness raising)

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Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria
publication
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DEEP Energy Efficient Procurement Toolkit

• Package of resources designed to help public
  authorities who would like to use purchasing
  power to improve their energy efficiency
  performance.

• Guidance on developing and implementing an energy
  efficient procurement policy
• Life-cycle costing tool, and introductory
  presentations
• Self-assessment energy audit tool
• Purchasing criteria for electricity, buildings
  and IT products

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Further information
Website www.iclei-europe.org/deep E-mail phili
pp.tepper_at_iclei-europe.org
Thank you very much for your attention!