Source: Domestic Administration & Michiel Maas
All offices in the Netherlands must have at least an energy label C by 2023. This also applies to the city offices and town halls of Dutch municipalities. But while most municipalities have strong ambitions about making their own real estate more sustainable, many of them will not meet that requirement. It is estimated that only a third of the square meters of office space in Dutch municipalities now has a label C or better, according to an inventory by the Land Registry and Domestic Administration.
Faded away
It may seem that the attention for the recent climate plans of governments has faded after the Climate Agreement concluded last year, but the 2013 Energy Agreement made a firm agreement for making offices more sustainable. Every office building must have at least energy label C by 2023. This also applies to city offices and town halls, as long as they are not monuments.
Registered
But the inventory makes it clear that this standard has not yet been achieved. The Land Registry study shows that only an estimated 16 percent of municipal buildings that are intended for offices have label C or higher. If we look at the number of square meters, it is somewhat higher. 32 percent of the m2 of municipal office real estate has label C or better. It is also notable that the majority of municipal real estate still has no label at all, or is not registered in the administration: 54 percent of the square meters is completely without label. There are even G40 municipalities for which not a single energy label from a municipal office has been registered.
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