To meet regulatory and societal challenges, Luxembourg's real estate stock must become responsible. Bruno Renders, Director General of the CDEC, sees this as a unique opportunity for the sector to evolve.

The construction sector in Luxembourg has made many efforts to reduce its environmental impact in recent years, mainly in terms of energy efficiency. "Since 2017, passive houses have become the mandatory standard for all new construction in Luxembourg," says Bruno Renders, Director General of the Conseil pour le développement économique de la construction (CDEC). The sector has thus demonstrated that it can evolve, well helped by regulatory and moral pressure and economic obligations. While improving energy efficiency has long dictated the sector's quest to reduce its environmental impact, it must now integrate other issues. "For some, reducing carbon emissions or entering the circular economy are constraints. For me, I see them as an extraordinary lever of opportunity to change things. This is the perfect opportunity to promote a sector which, of course, has impacts, but which also has the keys to reduce them considerably and quickly," says Bruno Renders.

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