Sector 2 of 4 · Buildings

How we live and work: buildings

Buildings account for a large share of Belgium's final energy use. The scenario cuts demand through better envelopes, lower indoor temperatures, heat pumps, district heating and more efficient appliances — in both residential and tertiary stock. Below, every assumption covers heating, hot water, cooking or electrical loads, with the 2019 baseline, the 2050 target and room for debate.

This sector page is being expanded with full discussions like transport, but all hypotheses and figures below are already live, generated directly from the buildings calculation notebook.

Buildings sufficiency hypotheses

Want the full calculation? Every number on this page is produced by the buildings notebook. Open the flattened notebook to see the data sources, formulas and intermediate steps.