Develop revised national building codes with enhanced energy efficiency parameters for existing ...

The United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON), on behalf of Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) invites qualified interested firms to submit Expression of Interest (EOI) to participate in the upcoming solicitation for provision of technical assistance implementation of GCF project to "Develop revised national building codes with enhanced energy efficiency parameters for existing and new public and residential buildings in the Kyrgyz Republic." United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on behalf of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) requires the services of an institution to deliver the technical assistance. The overall objective of this technical assistance is to support Kyrgyz Republic develop revised national building codes with enhanced energy performance standards for the following building components: heating, ventilation and air conditioning installations (HVAC); hot water systems (boiler installations); building envelopes for multicompartment residential buildings (energy consumption related provisions only). The building codes will cover five categories of buildings, namely residential family building, residential multicompartment buildings, administrative buildings, schools and kindergartens as stipulated in the regulation on the Energy Certification of Buildings adopted in 2012. Some of the expected outcome, outputs and activities are; 1.Contribute towards meeting the country's objective of reducing its energy consumption by 30 to 50% by increasing energy efficiency in buildings through revised building codes. 2.Develop Communication documents and implementation workplan. 3. Diagnosis of technological needs (clean energy and building materials). 4. Benchmarking of international best practices in Energy performance related to building codes from countries with similar socio-economic, geographic and climatic conditions, identify most relevant provisions for the Kyrgyz Republic. The complete details of the requirement will be provided in the tender documents that will be issued to bidders after this request for EOI is closed.