Building the Local Capacity for Promoting Energy Efficiency in Private and Public Buildings in Bulgaria, 2008
Dr. Lari functions as team leader and evaluater of the UNDP/GEF EE project Building the Local Capacity for Promoting EE in Private and Public Buildings, Bulgaria.
Responsible for review of project implementation including outcomes, CO2 emission reduction targets, monitoring and evaluation protocols and project management. Mr Lari prepared and discussed key recommendations for the final period of project implementation and drafted Terms of Reference for consultants.
The goal of the project is to promote energy efficiency market in buildings by
- Enhancing the awareness and capacity of local architects and engineers to better adopt energy efficiency aspects into the design of new buildings and retrofit of the existing ones;
- Raising the awareness and building the capacity of the targeted end users to develop and structure financing for economically and financially feasible EE projects, thereby creating a sustainable demand for energy efficiency equipment, materials and related services in the buildings market;
- Incorporating the energy efficiency aspects more strongly into the ongoing efforts to renovate the existing building stock in general, including the UNDP funded activities to support the renovation of public buildings and private residential and service sector buildings;
- Building the capacity of the local energy service providers to effectively market their services and to meet the requirements of the targeted financiers to finance EE projects; and
- Facilitating effective replication and dissemination of the results and institutionalizing the further support needed for the promotion of EE measures in public and private buildings through applicable legal and regulatory measures and organizational arrangements.
The focus is on public buildings owned/managed by the municipalities, private residential and service sector buildings and premises of the local small and medium size enterprises, which together cover about 85% of the total energy use of Bulgaria’s building stock.