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CIB W116—Smart and Sustainable Built Environments - Test Input

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Figure 1: Brazilian Bioclimatic Zoning (Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT) 1998)<br />

3.2 PROCEL EDIFICA<br />

The PROCEL – Programa Nacional de Conservação de Energia Elétrica (National Program for<br />

Electricity Conservation) – is a Brazilian government program, whose mission is to promote energy<br />

efficiency, helping to improve life quality <strong>and</strong> efficiency on goods <strong>and</strong> services, reducing<br />

environmental impacts. It covers different power consumption segments with specific programs, such<br />

as PROCEL EDIFICA – Eficiência Energética em Edificações (Energy Efficiency in Buildings) –<br />

approached in this paper. PROCEL EDIFICA proposes labeling energy efficiency level in commercial<br />

<strong>and</strong> public buildings. Next step, scheduled to become operate in 2010, will classify residential<br />

buildings through regulation of Law. 10.291/01.<br />

This program exists since 2003, but its operation was limited to promote <strong>and</strong> disseminate energy<br />

efficient practices <strong>and</strong> develop new technologies. The regulation is still voluntary <strong>and</strong> will be<br />

compulsory by 2012, when the initiative will evolve from label (consumption analysis) to seal<br />

(quality certificate). During this period the system will be tested <strong>and</strong> the market will be able to adjust<br />

to changes.<br />

The labeling program will be governed by a regulation which allows to classify efficiency level (A to<br />

E, with the letter A more efficient) to buildings with total useful area of at least 500 m² <strong>and</strong>/or supply<br />

voltage exceeds 2.3 kV, <strong>and</strong> includes additional incentives for adoption of systems such as water<br />

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