Speaker

Mr Poul E Kristensen holds a BSc (Hons.) in Mechanical and Civil Engineering. Since graduation in 1977 he has been involved in research on energy efficiency and renewable energy in buildings, with projects under the International Energy Agency, and projects under the Danish and the European Energy Research Programs.

Mr Kristensen founded IEN Consultants in year 2000, and since 2001 the company has carried out research and demonstration projects on energy efficiency and sustainability in buildings in SE Asia from the office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Among the projects undertaken by IEN Consultants are energy design of the Low Office Building for the Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications in Malaysia,  the energy design of the Zero Energy Office Building for the Malaysian Energy Centre,  the new Sustainable Office Building for the Energy Commission of Malaysia and the new Sime Darby World HQ in Kuala Lumpur.

Abstract

The building sector needs to reduce the energy consumption and CO2 emissions drastically. Incremental improvements are not sufficient to meet the demand for a drastic reduction of the consumption of fossil fuels and in the emission of greenhouse gases.

New buildings can now be built so that the energy consumption is reduced by more than 50% with a very convincing economic and technical feasibility. This is being demonstrated with several new showcase buildings in SE Asia. Furthermore, local generation of electricity and cooling based on natural gas, and eventually based on second generation biofuels, is now possible with mature technologies that improve the efficiency of primary fuel (natural gas) from 35% to at least 70%, an improvement of a factor 2. So the combination of energy efficient buildings and local cogeneration reduces the use of primary energy by a factor 4.

In the presentation, case studies of energy efficient buildings will be shown, and the necessary technologies for the factor 4 leap will be outlined.

You are cordially invited to the Seminar.

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