Fwd: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) TBT Notifications for Europe Update

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Subject: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) TBT Notifications for Europe Update
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France FRA/158 (Building shell components, heating systems, domestic hot water systems, cooling systems, equipment for generating energy using renewable energy sources, ventilation systems, and lighting systems.)

07/31/2014 08:00 PM EDT

The notified draft order concerning the thermal characteristics of and energy performance requirements for new buildings and new parts of buildings with a small surface area, and various simplifications, defines a number of areas of flexibility in the regulatory requirements for energy performance that are applicable to all new buildings. The main requirements relate to a limit on energy consumption for five types of appliance (heating, cooling, domestic hot water, lighting and ancillary appliances), a limit on energy requirements in terms of heating, cooling and artificial lighting, and a summertime discomfort limit. The amendments affecting the regulations are described in Last Date for Comments: 10/01/2014 (Texts provided by the World Trade Organization.)

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