Innovative approaches to sustainable energy promotion and management

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The building sector has a major impact not only on economic and social activities but also on the natural and built environment. The sector is responsible for about 30% of primary energy use in OECD countries. Sustainable building is an approach to building design. construction and management that reduces or eliminates the negative impact of buildings on the environment while promoting enhanced building performance and occupant health. This cluster will develop synergies between four Interreg IVb projects: Livinggreen. Regain. Cap’em. and SusStation to achieve: 1) Improved conditions for reduced energy consumption in buildings. and hence CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions: accelerating knowledge development and dissemination regarding sustainability and climate neutrality across a wide range of building types including monuments. schools. offices. train stations. tram depots. training centres and business parks. 2) Enhanced outputs of the individual projects integrated. joint outputs for widespread implementation in NWE: generating synergies between the projects participants. augmenting knowledge exchange and dissemination by coordinating the projects together; providing technical input from each other’s projects when fitting. to broaden. deepen and accelerate the learning curves of participants. This will enhance the impact of standards. assessment tools and working methods developed by the individual projects and result in joint outputs for use in the building sector on practical level and on the level of decision makers. 3)Raised visibility of the different projects’ findings. By connecting the directly involved partners of the individual projects and involving them in the production of joint products enlarging the critical mass for external impact of the individual projects and the cluster as a whole. Raising awareness and convince the general public. stakeholders. policy makers. professionals and the future professionals.

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