SR277/2 Building Energy End-use Study (BEES) Year 5: Barriers to resource efficiency (2018)

This report presents Building Energy End-use Study (BEES) data arising from further surveys of property managers, building owners and building owner-occupiers respectively. It considers the extent to which these stakeholders recognise or are committed to resource efficiency and the actions that they do, or do not, institute to optimise resource use in non-residential buildings.

It also provides a brief review of issues around resource optimisation in the non-residential building stock and findings of the BEES programme to date in relation to the interests, outcomes and motivations surrounding the ownership, leasing and management of non-residential buildings and their implications for resource optimisation.

BEES started in 2007 and ran for 6 years, gathering information on energy and water use through carrying out surveys and monitoring non-residential buildings.