Obligation for energy label C for offices seems to have desired effect

In 2018, the Dutch government announced that all office buildings larger than one hundred square meters would have to have an energy label C as of Jan. 1, 2023, if they are still to be used. These regulations seem to be followed in other sectors, as well as throughout the European Union. But are these rules working?

Read the entire article by researchers Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok and Xudong Sun via ESB (in Dutch)

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