Energy Certificates: Housing Group Leg Calls for Equal Heating Rules for All Eu Countries

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The energy transition in the building sector costs billions. The efficiency level in many places is already high and further measures expensive, says the head of LEG Immobilien, Lars von Lackum. Elsewhere you can save more CO2 with less money. He is sceptical about the Federal Government's constructionturbo.

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Ahead of further reform of the German Building Energy Act, Lars von Lackum, CEO of the residential real estate group LEG Immobilien, is calling for EU-wide harmonization of emissions regulations for buildings. "We need harmonization of efficiency classes," the LEG CEO told "Welt am Sonntag." "In Germany, a house may consume 75 kilowatt hours of energy per square meter per year to achieve Class C. In the Netherlands, it's 250. With smaller, more …