Professionals of building have a little more time to prepare. The government has granted six months of additional time to comply with the new standards intended to reduce the energy consumption of new homes, Emmanuelle Wargon told the newspaper The echoes .
The RE 2012, initially scheduled for next summer, “will come into force on January 1 2022, date on which the objective remains a gain of 30% on consumption energy efficiency of new housing compared to the current RT standard 310 ”, indicated the Minister for Housing. The concerns of the French Building Federation
This new calendar “shifts all the following milestones in the evolution of emission thresholds
carbon : both in individual and collective housing, they are now set at 2022, 2028 and 2030 ”, Specified the Minister, without detailing further. It thus responds to the French Building Federation, which was concerned about the announced objectives and deadlines which seemed “unrealistic” to it, both economically and in terms of the sector’s capacity to adapt to these changes.
Regarding the materials used in the construction of these new housing, the Minister assured that “each sector will have its place”: “wood, but also geosourced materials as well as brick, cement and concrete if the latter reduce their emissions by 30 % from here to 2030 as they have undertaken elsewhere ”.