Refurbishment of Existing Buildings Sample Clauses

Refurbishment of Existing Buildings. The Academy will take up occupation of the existing building pursuant to the Occupational Licence on the date of exchange of the Development Agreement. The Academy will continue to occupy under the Occupational Licence until expiry of the Defects Liability Period. The Licence will come to an end automatically on the grant of the Long Lease. Any occupation of the existing building prior to exchange of the Development Agreement will have authorised by a Short Term Lease. The Short Term Lease will determine on the date of exchange of the Development Agreement, pursuant to the break clause set out in the Short Term Lease.

Refurbishment of Existing Buildings. The legislation in the Brussels Region makes a distinction between major and small renovations. A renovation is considered to be major whenever the renovation activities cover at least 75% of the heat loss surface area and the HVAC system. Major renovations are considered to be almost new construction, so the same requirements apply, but all limits for requirements are multiplied with a factor 1.2, except for indoor temperature overrun. Small renovations only have to fulfil requirements on thermal insulation (U-values and risk assessment of thermal bridges) and ventilation. It is important to note that from 1 January 2015 each submission of a building permit can follow two directions: either complying with the ‘passive house’ concept or complying with an alternative solution taking account of specific urban characteristics such as a poor compactness and/or less solar gains. As such, the legislation avoids that ‘unfortunate’ buildings require excessive investment. The alternative route requires thermal insulation (U-) values of the building skin (average U-value 0.85 W/m2K for transparent parts; average U- value 0.12 W/m2K for non-transparent parts). Walloon region Tenders for a public service contract were called for by the Walloon Region at the end of 2011 to conduct a study (Co-ZEB Study). The study has not yet determined the nZEB reference level in kWh/m² per year. However, the study qualifies any nZEB by a level of energy performance of the building’s envelope close or equivalent to the passive standard. Nevertheless, an nZEB does not necessarily have to comply with all of the criteria set by the passive standard given the highly constraining nature of these criteria for certain types of building and/or in certain locations (in particular the criterion regarding the airtightness of the building envelope, which imposes a specific level of performance that is often difficult to achieve in construction terms). Hence, in the Walloon region, regarding new buildings, all construction will comply with the ‘very low energy’ standard from 2014 onwards. Construction will also comply with the ‘passive’ standard or equivalent from 2017. From 2019 onwards, all new buildings – in addition to the passive standard – will be required to comply as a minimum with the ‘net zero’ standard and tend towards positive-energy buildings (i.e. buildings where the production of renewable energy is equal to or greater than the consumption of non-renewable primary energy on an annua...