Background
The General
Building Regulations laying down the energy performance regulations for buildings
and establishing the National committee for energy efficiency in buildings approved by Decree No. 2-13-874 aims to respect of a set of rules to be applied in the construction industry for improving the thermal insulation of buildings to
reduce energy consumption.
Goal
Theses General
Building Regulations, which aims to produce a new generation of constructions,
will strive to bring about significant technological and industrial change in
the field of building design and insulation and will promote the economic
competitiveness of engineering, techniques, and products.
This decree has
two approaches:
A performance-based
approach: Specifications
are expressed in terms of minimum requirements for annual specific heating and
cooling requirements, relative to reference indoor temperatures.
A prescriptive
approach: the technical
specifications are expressed, for each type of building and in each climatic
zone, in the form of maximum thermal transmittance coefficients (U in W / ù surface of glazed
openings at the gross surface of the facade.
Supporting measures
For the
implementation of these regulations, a series of activities have been
undertaken, including:
v The ongoing realization of the study by the Superior
School of Technology of Salé with the support of GIZ to develop the thermal
characteristics of local building materials in order to update the BINAYATE
software database which allows for the prior thermal assessment of construction
projects and verification of compliance with the Thermal Regulations in the
Construction Sector;
v Preparation of manuals and
awareness and extension guides on building energy efficiency covering the field
of passive design and the equipments integrated in buildings;
v Organization of regional
awareness workshops;
v Carrying out communication and
awareness campaigns on the economic, environmental and social impact of energy efficiency in buildings;
v Preparation and
operationalization of a training offering on Thermal Building Regulations in Morocco (RTCM) and its thermal
performance monitoring tools;
v Training of trainers;
v Training of executives,
architects, engineers and technicians on energy efficiency in buildings;
v Development of an Eco-Binayate
quality label;
v Development of a computer tool for thermal performance
control in the construction industry (prescriptive Binayate and performance-based
Binayate).
At present, a training program
on behalf of 1500 architects based on the decree's requirements relating to the
RTCM (Thermal Building Regulations in Morocco) is in
progress.
In this context, the Ministry of Energy, Mining, and Sustainable
Development and the National Council of the Order of Architects (CNOA)
organized, in collaboration with the Moroccan Agency for Energy Efficiency
(AMEE) with the support of the GIZ’s project, training sessions for architects
on the Moroccan thermal building regulations took place in Rabat in September
2018, on November 24 and 25, 2018 and on December 08 and 09, 2018 in Tangiers.
