Construction of housing in Nantes (illustration).
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Building professionals have a little more time to prepare.
The government has granted six months of additional time to comply with the new standards intended to reduce the energy consumption of new homes, Emmanuelle Wargon announced to
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The RE 2020, initially planned for next summer, "will come into force on January 1, 2022, when the objective remains a gain of 30% on the energy consumption of new homes compared to the current RT2012 standard", indicated the Minister for Housing.
The concerns of the French Building Federation
This new calendar “shifts the following milestones for the evolution of carbon emission thresholds by as much: both in individual and collective housing, they are now set at 2025, 2028 and 2031,” the Minister specified, without giving further details.
It thus responds to the French Building Federation, which was worried about the announced objectives and deadlines which seemed "unrealistic" to it, both economically and in terms of the sector's capacity to adapt to these changes.
Regarding the materials used in the construction of these new homes, the Minister assured that "each sector will have its place": "wood, but also geosourced materials [freestone, for example] as well as brick, cement and concrete if the latter reduce their emissions by 34% by 2030 as they have committed elsewhere ”.
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