Environment

#VLOL2600652A18 Mart 2026 Tarihli Eklerin Enerji ve Çevresel Performans Gereksinimlerini Değiştiren Yönetmelik

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This regulation updates energy and environmental performance requirements for building extensions in France. It specifies new criteria for extensions and additional floors, particularly for non-single-family homes, based on their size and relation to existing structures. The regulation will take effect on July 1, 2026.

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Key Changes

  • New criteria for extensions and additional floors for non-single-family homes based on size.
  • Clarification that the regulation applies to both extensions and additional floors.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Apply updated energy and environmental performance requirements to building extensions with a reference surface area strictly between 50 and 80 m² (non-single-family use extensions)

Building owners, developers, and construction professionals undertaking extensions in France
operational
high

Apply updated energy and environmental performance requirements to non-single-family building extensions with reference surface area strictly between 50 and 150 m² where the extension exceeds 30% of the reference surface area of existing premises

Building owners, developers, and construction professionals undertaking extensions in France
operational
high

Apply updated energy and environmental performance requirements to non-single-family building extensions with reference surface area exceeding 150 m² where the extension represents less than 30% of the reference surface area of existing premises

Building owners, developers, and construction professionals undertaking extensions in France
operational
high

Include building extensions and elevated structures (surélévations) within the scope of energy performance standards previously applied only to extensions

Building owners, developers, and construction professionals undertaking extensions and elevated structures in France
operational
high

Comply with updated energy and environmental performance requirements for air-conditioned elevated structures on single-family homes by July 1, 2026

Building owners and developers undertaking air-conditioned elevated structures on single-family homes in France
operational

Affected Parties

Property developersHomeowners planning extensions+1 more…

Tags

energy performance,building regulations,environmental standards