Make saving crucial again: building energy efficiency awareness of people living in urban areas

ABSTRACT Construction is one of the most energy-intensive sectors in the world. To scale down the energy demand of the building sector, some changes must be made. Formal exemplifications of this need can be seen in recent changes in the law in different countries. The energy identity/performance certificate contains requirements about buildings’ energy consumption in Turkey, and the Energy Performance Regulation in Buildings is mandatory from 01.01.2020. Moreover, it aimed to measure the level of awareness of individuals in saving energy. Face-to-face surveys were conducted with the use of a questionnaire with individuals residing in Adana's pilot region on the awareness of similar issues such as green buildings and energy efficiency, especially energy identity/performance certificate. The survey results were prepared in Microsoft Excel, and the reliability of the survey questions was measured with the help of the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) program. The analysis of the data was obtained from WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis). Association rule extraction, which is one of the data mining methods, was used in the analysis. Based on the findings, it was seen that most of the individuals did not have enough information about the topics in the survey.