| Cross-Sectorial Barriers and Challenges | Building sector’s Barriers and Challenges |
Behavioural Barriers | ・ General lack of awareness by the end-users on their impact on the energy crisis, and the excess use of energy that they consume. ・ No incentives for investors to invest in energy efficiency application. | ・ General lack of awareness of the end-users and construction practitioners. ・ No familiarity with energy efficiency products. ・ No incentives for end-users to accommodate energy efficiency applications. ・ Lack of interest in energy efficiency applications. |
Structural Barriers | ・ Lack of effective actions by the government to address energy efficiency in all sectors [3] . ・ The absence of an effective policy. ・ Lack of transparency and information on the required methods and tools that can achieve energy Efficiency. ・ There is no institutional framework to promote energy efficiency and there are no dedicated prohibitive laws or regulations that call for the implementation of energy efficiency [2] . ・ Conflicting authorities and the absence of a regulating body that can help in implementing and following up on the applied energy efficiency methods. ・ The lack of clarity for energy efficiency schemes and the high risk associated. | ・ The residential energy efficiency code is not properly implemented [9] . ・ Energy saving is a hard sell as it is non-tangible, especially when it involves different buildings, applications and large number of users. ・ Efficiency tools are fragmented across the residential sector and it is hard to account its data or keep track of it. |
Resources Barriers | ・ The lack of technical capacities [3] . ・ The technology used in Energy efficiency is not well recognized and is usually expensive. ・ A lack of a specific fund dedicated for energy efficiency promotion and implementation strategies. ・ The absence of an adequate policy for promoting energy efficiency. ・ Absence of utilities as executing agencies [3] . ・ Lack of Governmental incentives and motivational schemes that encourage the private sector to invest in energy efficiency schemes. ・ The assumption of high initial cost impaired with energy efficiency tools and applications, without realising the promising saving it represent on the long run. | ・ No familiarity with the different technologies available nor the savings that they offer. ・ Substantial initial cost is required to invest in energy efficiency applications. ・ People shy away from accommodating energy efficiency applications due to the assumed higher initial cost without properly also considering the saving it will apply on the long run. |