Energy efficient buildings and behavioural implications

The ever-increasing frequency of extreme weather events and even more relevant structural alterations of temperature trends, draught periods and heat waves recurrency in many countries have recently showed not only the urgency to cope with Climate Change impacts but also the dependency on energy supply to maintain acceptable indoor comfort levels within the built environment which definitely contributes to increase the energy demand and the related emissions responsible of such changes. Thus, it is evident that the recent claim for action directly involves the built environment and the building sector both in terms of appropriate technical answers and also in terms of more adequate end-users’ behaviour.