Abstract:

Today, energy consumption in the cities is dramatically increasing due to the growing population and various economic activities. The construction sector has a significant responsibility to increase global final energy consumption and total CO2 emission in the European Union. In the last two decades, policies on energy efficiency for residential buildings have been implemented in European Union. In this context, several legal regulations have been introduced in Turkey by the impact of the EU Directive on Energy Efficiency. Energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of structures are expected to be reduced with the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) procedure described in the Regulation on Building Energy Performance. EPC actions should not be considered only in terms of the scale of a single building, and these efforts should be addressed with a holistic approach within the scope of land management. The data obtained from EPC applications should be integrated with land tenure, land use, topographic and atmospheric data to create an effective energy efficiency policy in settlements. Information infrastructure should be established to enable the application of spatial analysis. In this study, EPC actions in our country were evaluated within the land management paradigm, significant deficiencies were introduced, and some suggestions were made.

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