Annex 55, Reliability of Energy Efficient Building Retrofitting - Probability Assessment of Performance and Cost, (RAP-RETRO): Stochastic Data

The International Energy AgencyThe International Energy Agency (IEA) was established in 1974 within the framework of theOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to implement an internationalenergy programme. A basic aim of the IEA is to foster international co-operation among the 28 IEAparticipating countries and to increase energy security through energy research, development anddemonstration in the fields of technologies for energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.The IEA Energy in Buildings and Communities ProgrammeThe IEA co-ordinates research and development in a number of areas related to energy. The missionof the Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Programme is to develop and facilitate theintegration of technologies and processes for energy efficiency and conservation into healthy, lowemission, and sustainable buildings and communities, through innovation and research. (Until March2013, the IEA-EBC Programme was known as the Energy in Buildings and Community SystemsProgramme, ECBCS.)The research and development strategies of the IEA-EBC Programme are derived from researchdrivers, national programmes within IEA countries, and the IEA Future Buildings Forum Think TankWorkshops. The research and development (R&D) strategies of IEA-EBC aim to exploit technologicalopportunities to save energy in the buildings sector, and to remove technical obstacles to marketpenetration of new energy efficient technologies. The R&D strategies apply to residential, commercial,office buildings and community systems, and will impact the building industry in five focus areas forR&D activities:- Integrated planning and building design- Building energy systems- Building envelope- Community scale methods- Real building energy us