20.500.12556/DKUM-98199 Streamlining sustainability certification of residential buildings in the EU state-of-the-art literature review The building sector is a critical component of the European Union’s strategy to achieve climate neutrality, as it accounts for 30–40% of total energy consumption and significant greenhouse gas emissions. While sustainability certification systems like BREEAM, LEED, DGNB, and HQE have established frameworks for environmental assessment, their widespread adoption in the residential sector faces challenges related to complexity and technical barriers. This paper provides a state-of-the-art literature review on streamlining sustainability certification for residential buildings in the EU. It examines the transition from established private schemes to harmonised frameworks such as Level(s), alongside the integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The review identifies key obstacles, including data interoperability issues, the need for automated quantity extraction, and the lack of technical expertise among stakeholders. Findings suggest that streamlining requires advancing semantic data models and digital twins to enable real-time performance monitoring and automated compliance checking. Furthermore, the alignment of national building codes with the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) and the European Green Deal is essential for fostering a more cohesive certification landscape. The study concludes by outlining pathways for reducing the administrative and technical burden of certification to support the EU’s decarbonisation and renovation goals. building sustainability certification level(s) Building Information Modeling BIM Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) sustainable construction trajnostna gradnja certificiranje BIM informacijsko modeliranje gradenj digitalni modeli analiza življenjskega cikla true false true MDPI Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik https://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings Članek v reviji 2026-05-26 08:00:20 2026-05-26 08:00:21 2026-05-27 03:07:08 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 30 str. št. 11, št. članka 2115 let. 16 25 May 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2026-04-13 2026-05-20 2026-05-25 69:502.131.1 279310339 10.3390/buildings16112115 2075-5309 buildings-16-02115.pdf buildings-16-02115.pdf 1 18008EBE49202C1DAC536C5CD81BF677 d5ad534b13ab3c472414cb98e0c96175d9a0e71e3b2fb9043cdc6db27f4ad0f5 7f2b423f-58c8-11f1-b241-00155d580e34 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=206410 https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/16/11/2115 1 2e722c6f-58c8-11f1-b241-00155d580e34 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=206409 Fakulteta za gradbeništvo, prometno inženirstvo in arhitekturo 0 0 0