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New home prices could rise as much as 15% next year, when real estate developers have to meet new energy efficiency requirements.
In short, builders have to give up cheap and bad materials. Insulate buildings on request and use “green” facilities.
Investments can cut utility bills in half compared to old apartment buildings.
It is a national law and a directive of the European Union: new buildings, whether we are talking about houses, blocks of flats, offices, schools or hospitals, must be erected without loss of energy. The new rules require developers to invest in materials. For exterior insulation, the efficiency is mineral wool, 25 percent more expensive than polystyrene. The glass in the windows should be thermally insulated and central heating is preferable to that of the apartment.
PlusIn new blocks with at least 10 parking spaces, developers will need to pull the cables so that a charging point for electric cars is installed in each parking space.
In the new buildings at least 30% of energy must be renewable obtained with solar panels or heat pumps.
Green roofs are also recommended for thermal insulation of homes, a new concept in our country.
In Belgium, however, they are mandatory for large buildings. In summer, vegetation significantly lowers the temperature on the roof.
All of these investments drive up the prices of new homes.
Antoanela Comșa, real estate developer: It will probably exceed 15%, I do not think that today we can make buildings with good materials and that they comply with current legislation in less than 1000 euros -1050 euros per square meter. I mean the sale price. “
Buildings already built must also be renovated to keep energy losses to a minimum. Builders talk about insulating facades, sealing windows or installing taps in sinks with low water consumption. Once these investments are made, the bills also decrease.
In addition to energy losses, carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced. Both in homes and in public buildings, in hospitals and offices.
If the law is obeyed, we will breathe cleaner air, indoors or outdoors. We will have brighter and warmer homes with lower utility bills. But it is the real estate developers who ask the authorities to control thoroughly. Because in the building license the project can be seen very well, but as the building rises, through various legislative devices, some energy efficiency solutions are abandoned.
