Obiettivi e ambito di applicazione del gruppo di lavoro

The WG focuses on communicating the architect’s view on forthcoming EU policy and legislation in the areas of building performance, circular economy, climate change-related issues, and informing the profession of related opportunities and best practices. It aims to:

Contribute to the creation of EU policies that enable:

• high quality architecture that demonstrates outstanding whole life carbon performance over its life span – as per Davos Baukultur Quality System, NEB and the EU Level(s) criteria
• Accelerate the renovation of the existing building stock to reduce operational energy consumption by up to 50%.
• the collection and disclosure of data relating to building performance to inform building and stock-level benchmarks 
• greater access to materials and construction techniques that minimize embodied carbon and demonstrate the circular use of resources
• the scaling up of low-emission retrofits, including sustainable finance and insurance mechanisms (> linkage with Area 2 / Practice committee)

Working with member organisations to:

• embed Davos Baukultur Quality System, NEB and EU Level(s) criteria in the recognition of excellence as well as in continuous architectural education (> linkage with Area 1 / PQD-PPE WG)
• Collect best practices at the building and policy level, analysing them in detail, to be replicable and transferred to other MS,
• communicate success through case studies at the building and policy level that inspires and motivates governments, institutions and architects
• Adapt the architects’ scope of works to include building performance evaluations across all work stages (> linkage with Area 2 / Practice committee)
• highlight barriers and instigate research and innovation to overcome these
• extend the reach of our campaigns to the Council of the EU

Work with other NGOs to:

• Develop and amplify our key messages to the Commission and MEPs to achieve legislative change.

Document and share excellence from: 

• awards, conferences, events in sustainable architecture