Sustainable Building and Construction within the European Union

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Sustainable Building and Construction within the
European Union
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Drivers for SBC within EU

• Integration of social and environmental
  protection into EU policies is mandatory
• Effects on employment
• Europes largest employer
• Multiplier effect
• One job ? 2 jobs in economy as a whole

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Process

• Development of Action Plan
• Tripartite
• EC, Member States, Construction industry
• Focus
• priority actions for improving competitiveness of
  the construction industry
• Agreed to May 1999

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Structure

• Goal
• create an Agenda for Sustainable Construction in
  Europe
• promote European agenda
• minimize disparate, un-coordinated development
  plans
• Objective
• develop a strategy for the use and promotion of
• environmentally friendly construction materials
• energy efficiency in buildings
• construction and demolition waste management

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Strategy

• Implementing two-pronged approach to ensure
• highly competitive construction industry
• environmentally focused strategies for sector
• Understanding complex relationship between
• construction activities
• built environment
• sustainable development
• Ensuring multi-stakeholder involvement
• Acknowledging importance of social aspects

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Key Directives promoting SBC

• Energy Performance of Buildings
• Drivers
• Meet EU obligation under Kyoto Protocol
• Improve long-term energy supply security
• Applicable to new and existing buildings
• Requirements
• development of building energy performance
  methodology
• application of minimal energy performance
  requirements
• implementation of certification and inspections

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Key Directives promoting SBC

• Construction Products
• Driver
• Need to harmonize standards at EU level for
  construction products
• Applicable to over 300 products from not less
  than 45 families of products
• Requirements
• Products and result of application of products
  are assessed according to
• building safety, health, durability, energy
  economy, protection of environment, economic
  considerations

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Key Directives promoting SBC

• EC Landfill
• Drivers
• Reduction of available and appropriate land
• Increased cost of disposal
• Outlines operational and technical requirements
  on waste and landfill

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Other EU Initiatives

• Expert Group of the Urban Environment
• Working Groups
• sustainable construction methods and techniques
• sustainable urban transport
• urban management and sustainable construction
• Development of agenda for sustainable
  construction

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Other EU Initiatives

• E-CORE European Construction Research Network
• "umbrella network" to specifically address
  environmental and sustainability issues
• Examples of established networks
• ETN Recy.net - The use of recycled materials as
  aggregates in the construction industry
• PRESCO - practical recommendations for
  sustainable construction

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E-CORE contd.

• DURANET - supports the development and
  application of performance based durability
  design and assessment of concrete structures
• TENSINET - upgrading the built environment in
  Europe through tensile structures
• ENERBUILD - energy in the built environment.
• CRISP - construction and city related
  sustainability indicators

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E-CORE contd.

• Proposed networks
• PeBBu performance based building
• LIFETIME lifetime engineering of buildings and
  civil infrastructures

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Other European Initiatives

• Rethinking Construction
• UK government initiative composed of industry,
  government, clients
• Focus - improving UK construction performance
• Showcases innovations in products and performance
• Highlights best practices

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Other European Initiatives

• Environmental Technology in Construction
• Finnish government initiative composed of Finnish
  enterprises, institutions, and research
  institutes
• Focus - ecologically sustainable construction via
  development of construction methods and
  techniques, products and services
• Key area environmental assessment to verify
  sustainability
• Next step construction and facility management
  sector to jointly defined environmental goals and
  indicators

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Other European Initiatives

• EU Environmental Technology Action Plan
• The stimulation of and development of new
  technologies for the building and construction
  sectors is a priority area.
• EU Sixth Framework and Asia Pro Eco Programmes
• Sustainable Building and Construction is an area
  for receipt funding and prioritization

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