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Kingspan Group is a global leader in high performance insulation, building fabric and solar integrated building envelopes (see www.kingspan.com homepage).

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Barry Andrews (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

4 Dec 2025 · Ukraine

Meeting with Anna Jarosz-Friis (Director Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood)

5 Nov 2025 · Investment climate in Ukraine

Meeting with Ciaran Mullooly (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Jul 2025 · Multiple issues

Meeting with Barbara Bonvissuto (Director Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and BASF SE and

19 Feb 2025 · Exchange on Housing and Efficient buildings initiatives in Europe

Meeting with Ciarán Cuffe (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

9 Jan 2023 · EPBD

Meeting with Ciarán Cuffe (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

19 Oct 2022 · Sustainable Building materials

Meeting with Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner) and

27 Sept 2022 · energy efficiency (insulation saves energy in buildings); decarbonisation; circularity - 40 per cent of all materials extracted from earth go into construction and only 8 per cent recycled.

Response to Revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU

19 Mar 2021

Kingspan supports the EU’s 2050 decarbonisation objective, and the crucial role the buildings sector has for us to get there, as highlighted in the Assessment. As identified by research, notably RAP in its 2020 study (Filling the policy gap: Minimum energy performance standards for European buildings. June 2020.) , current renovation rates and depth are not sufficient to ensure the whole sector would reduce its energy consumption sufficiently. A revision of the EPBD is therefore necessary. To allow the EPBD to really drive efficiency gains and refurbishments in the existing building stock, we encourage the European Commission to focus on the Option 3 identified in the Assessment: to increasing the ambition of the Directive itself. We particularly call for the introduction of mandatory minimum performance standards (MEPS) for all existing buildings. The standards can be phased in by building type and over time, for example assisted by Building Renovation Passports and linked to trigger points like sale or rent. The standards should also be supported by accompanying technical assistance and financing programmes. Therefore the non-legislative solutions under Option 2 should also be part of the whole policy framework. As shown in the RAP report, MEPS have been shown to successfully drive energy efficient renovation in different regions globally. The Commission’s own modelling from 2016 showed MEPS can be very effective in driving energy consumption changes in the building sector. Standard levels set for a certain future date show building owners and managers the expected improvements both at building stock level and for individual buildings. This allows both the authorities and building owners to plan in terms of financing programmes and technical support set up. This is also very helpful for investors and financial institutions when planning financial tools for the sector. Vulnerable populations can also be taken into account, with specific support schemes. Additionally, growth in demand for energy renovations will drive the service providers, often small companies, towards improving their skills and offering more energy efficiency know-how. Another important element where the EPBD can be strengthened is the Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs). We encourage the Commission to propose to improve their quality and availability. We also support making them more harmonized throughout the EU, which would be helpful for the industry, to be able to better plan our product range and offerings. Decarbonisation of the building stock must be based on a deep reduction of energy consumption. Deep renovations bring the multitude of additional benefits so often talked about – cost savings for consumers and public sector, an increase in the building asset value, improved health, productivity and well-being for occupants, reduced energy poverty and important increases in local jobs. These benefits would not be as potent if policy-makers prioritise decarbonising heating and cooling mainly by improvements to the energy supply side. To work toward the EU’s broader environmental objectives and the decarbonization goal, it is important to include considerations of whole life carbon and circularity of buildings as well as digitalization. Such considerations need to be worked into the policy framework at both material, technology, whole building system, supply chain and energy system levels.
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Response to Climate change mitigation and adaptation taxonomy

18 Dec 2020

Kingspan Group thanks the European Commission for the important work on the taxonomy proposal and the several opportunities for stakeholder input into the process. We firmly believe in the 2050 decarbonisation objective and have ourselves set company and supplier level strict targets to achieve this and to contribute to the overall ambition throughout our business activity. We also fully support efforts to develop clear and strong investment criteria for private and public sector investors to make decisions that support that long term vision. As shown by the European Commission’s own data, the building sector is the biggest energy consumer and therefore needs to be prioritised. However, the draft criteria currently specify that renovations deemed sustainable only need to deliver a 30% reduction of primary energy demand. Considering that we need the sector to contribute massively to the overall decarbonisation and that a vast majority of the current building stock will still be there in 2050, much more will need to be done. Often renovation cycles can be long, so we believe sustainable renovations need to be deep, and should lead to at least 60% energy savings, to improve the building stock in line with the EU’s climate objectives. Regarding sectoral criteria, as Kingspan Group, we are concerned about a narrowing in scope in the section technical screening criteria for Manufacturing of energy efficient equipment in buildings – see Chapter 3.4, page 69. When compared to the TEG report, the category of manufacturing of general insulation products has been left out of the Regulation Annex, whereas the other insulation categories (roof and external cladding) are left in. The left out category is “Insulation products with low thermal conductivity (lambda lower or equal to 0.045 W/mK)”. This seems contradictory as in other chapters of the Regulation Annex, on activities in installation, maintenance of energy efficient equipment such categories of general insulation products are included in the list. See Chapter 7.3, page 242. It seems counter-intuitive to leave some insulation manufacturing out of the list of manufacturing of energy efficiency equipment in buildings, while the installation and maintenance, repair of insulation are recognised. Indeed, insulation of building envelope and HVAC and other pipelines are crucial to achieve zero carbon and circular new buildings as well as deep renovation of existing buildings and thereby substantially contribute to EU’s decarbonisation ambitions.
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