Sustainable, energy efficient and resource saving residential buildings with consideration of unified procedures and new and adapted technologies

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Longlife will develop practices, innovative technologies, unified procedures and guidelines for and subsequently the design of a prototype of a sustainable, energy efficient and resource saving residential building in the Baltic Sea Region. The above mentioned knowledge will be transferred, according to Gothenburg, between Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and Russia and can and should be applied in other countries too. Through this transfer differences in practices, technologies, procedures, rules and institutional structures in the BSR will hence be minimized. In a first step existing procedures for planning, permit and tendering, practices for developing and operating housing and technologies for construction of buildings will be gathered and analyzed for the participating countries. This comparative overview as output will already lead to added transnational value. In a second step requirements and guidelines will be jointly developed to improve the existing procedures, practices and technologies to new, innovative and higher standards under the aspects of energy efficiency, sustainability, resource saving buildings and low lifecycle costs. The output in form of a guideline is an added transnational value and is intended to be used by authorities, chambers, association etc. for future legislation and as a definition of obliging standards. In the third step the developed requirements, procedures and technologies will be jointly implemented in a prototype residential building. This will be done in a “bottom up” approach – start from the existing level and improve in little steps - and a “top down” approach – define the state of the art. The prototype will be adapted at the end for country specific requirements. A completely designed building is the output and will be handed over and can be used by regional, national and EU-bodies, planners, housing associations, developers, companies and SME’s to foster a subsequent “realization” of the prototype as pilot project and to prepare concrete investments. The prototype building will be certificated as a sustainable building. The good practice solutions and innovative technologies should also be applied to other building types like kinder gardens, hospitals and offices. Longlife will also propose elements for future financing through EU funds. Universities, public administrations and housing associations from each participating country work jointly in national units, which will distribute the knowledge in each country, and in three transnational competence teams (universities –science, administration – procedures, housing associations – practice), which develop and share the knowledge in the transnational context. The establishment of the "BAltic Sea Housing Development Association – BASHDA“ will continue the cooperation after conclusion of the project Longlife.

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