Energy Efficiency: Buildings, Materials

Market Analysis

• BCC Research - market overviews of the building industry including building materials and clean technologies. (HU PIN)

• EMIS (Emerging Markets Information System) - country, industry, and company information on Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East, as well as global market reports on the topic.

• IEA Energy Efficiency and Demand portal – reports and data on energy demand, end-use data, and efficiency indicators at national and sectoral levels.

• Moody's Analytics CRE - Property profile includes a section on climate risk. 

Buildings: Energy Efficiency Data

• Building Performance Database (BPD)
  It is publicly available datasets of U.S. building energy performance. It includes energy use, physical and operational characteristics, location, equipment, and asset details for both commercial and residential buildings.

• EU Building Stock Observatory (BSO)
  A primary EU-level tool for the energy performance of buildings across Europe. It provides stock, energy consumption, technical systems, energy performance certificates (EPCs), renovation rates, energy poverty, and financing. Data can be accessed by topic, year, and country, and is available for downloading in summary tables and graphs.

• Statista
  It is a statistics portal that integrates thousands of diverse topics of data and facts from a wide range of sources onto a single platform.
  

Additional resources

• Institute for Market Transformation (IMT)
  has more information on the topic including background information on benchmarking (select benchmarking as a topic in your search).

• USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) LEED Project Directory
  Provides data about building energy, waste and water use. Data is collected under the popular LEED green-building rating system.

Construction Materials

Use the following databases as well as explore the above resources.

• ScienceDirect
  Covers research papers and review articles from both technical and application perspectives. A good place to go for understanding trends, challenges, and more.

• IEEE Xplore
  Provides access to IEEE transactions, IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and links to IEEE Standards and IEEE Spectrum. Useful for understanding leading innovations, technology applications and more.