Net Zero-Energy Buildings have been the object of numerous studies in recent years as various countries have set this performance level as a long-term goal of their energy policies. This book presents a unique study of 30 NZEBs that have been constructed and have had their performance measured for at least 12 months. The study is based upon an internationalcollaborative research initiated by the International Energy Agency - the Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (SHC). Itis the first book to evaluate building strategies in houses, educational buildings and offices that have been demonstrated to work in practice. It examines how the design challenges of climate and building type have been addressed, and to what extent the various design approaches have been successful.
This book presents convincing evidence that a carefulre-thinking of conventional design norms can achieve a far greater performance benefit than is normally feasible. It identifies `solution sets? that work at the whole building level and at the individual building design challenge level foreach climate and building type. In doing so, the book provides guidance as to how to improve the design by learning from these cases.

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