NspacE - Network for sustainable planning in architecture and construction for Central and Eastern Europe

15.01.2007 - 01.05.2007
Forschungsförderungsprojekt
Partners: Faculty of Transport and Traffic, Department of Urbanism, University of Belgrade; Serbia Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urbanism, University of Belgrade; Serbia National Technical University Athens, Department of Construction Engineering and Management; Greece IGH - Civil engineering Institute of Croatia; Croatia de Architekten Cie Zagreb; Croatia Expeditio-NGO, Kotor; Montenegro ATP project management GmbH, Munich; Germany OD-DO arhitekti, Belgrade; Serbia The concept The aim of the project lies in the realisation of an interdisciplinary network for sustainable planning and building in architecture and construction connecting professionals of Central Europe and West Balkan Countries - NspacE. There are two crucial aspects the network¿s activity: 1.Experience exchange through diversity: the participants coming form countries with large differences in socio-economic and political conditions; resulting in different levels of possibilities of implementation of sustainability issues 2.Knowledge transfer between science and practice: the participants of the NspacE are coming from the research as well as from the practice. Each region is represented by one practice-oriented participant ¿ architect, planning office or NGO. The aim is establishing professional contact and knowledge exchange between research, education, planners and engineers from the fields of architecture, construction and urban planning The West Balkan participants, together with Croatia are countries going through transition process, which is reflected in extensive, however in unregulated building activity. The sustainability in the planning and construction is still expressed only declaratively, and remains mostly the as topic of the theoretical domain. Moreover, the rapid takeover of market conditions dictated by the laws of neo-classical economy is resulting with highly unsustainable urban and building structures and phenomena. As most striking issues can be identified: wild building, lacking urban infrastructure, traffic congestion, emission of pollutants, extremely high use of land and resources, overbuilding of the cost line, unsolved property owners system, deterioration of the existing building stock due to the lack of organised maintenance, and many more. In such conditions is the systematic monitoring and problem allocation of the issues of energy consumption, emissions and pollutants caused by the building stocks, control of flows of resources (land, energy, material and capital) without improvement and upgrading of existing methodologies and practices hardly possible. Not only is sustainable planning, but planning process as such due to the political and economic conditions, confronted with number of difficulties concerning legal transparency, structure, lack of data or data access. The main idea of this project is to initiate the know-how exchange between the Austrian participant, as the representative of highly developed building market in terms of sustainability practice and regulations, and participants from the countries with lower levels of sustainability implementation, in order to allocate the problems of respective participant country and develop customised strategy for sustainable planning for each participant As return mechanism, the increased presence of Austrian and Central European architectural offices and construction companies in the East European market requires for increased cooperation, data- and information transparency and exchange - the objectives that will be achievable through the network activity. The NspacE network will provide a ¿joint information and communication platform¿ on sustainability in planning and construction for education, research, professionals and public, and should deepen the awareness and the sensitivity for sustainable building process among planners, investors and users on international level.

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Grant funds

  • FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH (National) Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

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DeutschEnglisch
Nachhaltiges BauenSustainable Design
Energie EffizienzEnergy Efficiency
LebenszykluskostenLife Cycle Costing
KonstruktionskostConstruction Cost

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