Commercial sector, houses and household equipment consume more energy than any other economic sectors in Iran.
This consists, 22% of Oil Products, 67% of Natural Gas and 11% of Electricity. The value of energy consumed in year 2005 amounted to 9.898 billion dollars.
The main challenge facing IFCO are dominant non efficient sets of home appliances in the market in one hand and noncompliance's of main stream home builders to the principals of energy conservation on the other.
According to one survey covering whole country consumption per acre meter of buildings is equivalent to 30 m3 of gas per year. This will slime down to 20 m3 in 2020 with implementing IFCO programs, which is still high comparing to European index of 5.5 m3 of gas per year.

Therefore
The main activities in building department for Fuel conservation:

	The procedure of implementation of the energy regulation in buildings in order to reduce energy consumption in building
	Replacement of proper way of energy with fossil fuels
	Increasing the efficiency of home appliances

Commercial and Residential 2005

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