Building Act Brings New Climate Requirements For Construction

The new Building Act will enter into force on 1 January 2025 and replace the Land Use and Building Act currently in force for the parts concerning construction.

In accordance with the current government programme, certain parts of the Building Act are still to be amended before the Act enters into force to ease the administrative burden and reduce bureaucracy. The draft government proposal was circulated for comments in early 2024, and the Government intends to submit the proposal for amending the Building Act to Parliament in September 2024. However, the Ministry of the Environment already notified the EU on the government proposal on amending the Building Act in June 2024.

This blog is the second part of our blog series focusing on the new Building Act. Here you can find the first part, in which we discussed changes in building permits. This part focuses on one of the key changes in the Building Act, i.e. incorporating climate change mitigation into building