Display® / Toward Class A

European municipal buildings climate campaign

Display® is a European Campaign aimed at encouraging European municipalities to publicly display the energy, water and green house gas emission performances of their municipal buildings. The Campaign is the first of its kind in Europe and is supported for it’s start up by the European Commission, DG ENV.

Display® is within the scope of the Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings. The objective of Display is to anticipate it’s implementation and to provide European municipalities with an opportunity to be one step ahead of this Directive. Display™ is more than a certification scheme, it is also an information tool to raise the public awareness on energy and environment related questions.

The most visible part of Display® is a poster, based on the now well-known principle of energy labels for household electrical appliances and which has been adapted for use on public buildings. This is one reason for the poster being easily understood and accessible by citizens. In the foreground of the poster there are pictures showing the classification of the building. It features a range of classes from A to G for the overall primary energy consumption, the resulting CO2 equivalent emissions, and water consumption.