Green Building A-Z

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The Green Building A-Z project aims to make public buildings more energy efficient. To succeed with this, skills development goes as a common thread throughout the project. In order for public buildings to be more energy efficient, municipalities need to have the knowledge to set the right requirements in procurements. Companies also need to be able to meet the requirements to build more sustainable and energy efficient. In addition, the end user must be able to use the building in an energy efficient way. In order to achieve the three objectives, new knowledge and skills of stakeholders are needed. “The municipalities are some of the biggest developers and therefore we think we have a responsibility to go first, to show that we are major developers and that we want to take responsibility,” says project manager Christina Grann Myrdal. Skills enhancement and exchange of experience: In order to increase the knowledge of the project’s partners, they work, among other things, with training and development on construction sites. The project will also organise networking activities where municipalities and companies will discuss solutions together. Another important effort is to develop five pilot projects to show how new buildings and renovation projects can reduce energy consumption. We need to gain experience in how we can build sustainably, but primarily the project is about skills lifting so that we become wiser when we are going to build or renovate. That’s why we work with a mix of practical cases and competence development. Naturally with cooperation between countries: With such a clear focus on a competence boost, Christina Grann Myrdal believes it is self-evident to cooperate across borders. She explains, for example, how educational bodies in the different countries will work to develop their trainings during the project and to share each other’s knowledge in that work. Already in the application process, we saw that in the partnership we have different experiences and different ways of working with sustainable building, and we can all learn from each other. Therefore, it makes sense to have the entire palette with participants from Scandinavia. I notice that everyone in the partnership is very curious to find out how the others work with sustainable construction. Another project activity is network meetings where external parties should also share good and less good examples. Similarly, the project will work on anchoring its results both internally and externally. Sustainable construction should become normal status: Once the project is completed, their goal is to have pushed the sustainable construction in the right direction. Green Building A-Z wants to have contributed to increased knowledge and good relationships in the partnership so that the work lives on. They want to have produced a number of good cases, and that some methods have been tested at the educational bodies. We want to help make it normal to build sustainably. That you always think about the environment and nature when you build, says Christina Grann Myrdal.

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