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Why a sustainable built environment?

• Finland has approximately 1.5 mill. properties, with a total value of 369

bn. €

• The energy use of buildings accounts to the energy production of 16

nuclear power stations.

• The share of buildings on total greenhouse gas emissions is 40 %,

commitments to reduce total GHG emissions have been made.

• The European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive obliges new

construction units to approach ’Near Zero Energy Buildings’ by 2020.

Why a sustainable built environment?

Productivity and economic efficiency

•Good indoor air quality can improve productivity by 10%

•New ways of working reduce the need for business premises and work

spaces by 40 – 50%.

•The control and guidance of technical building services can save 10- 20%

of a property’s energy consumption which would nationally amount to the

energy production of 2-3 nuclear power stations.

Aalto yliopisto (2014), WorldGBC (2013)

Why a sustainable built environment?

Health

• About 35% less short sickness absences in offices with a good indoor air

quality.

• People sleeping in the proximity of windows get 46 minutes more nightly

sleep than others.

• In office work the scenery and amount of daylight can explain up to 6 % of

the variation in sickness absences.

• Decreased stressors at work and at home.

- blood pressure, cortisol, heart rate

Health, Wellbeing & Productivity in Offices, WorldGBC (2014)

Why a sustainable built environment?

WorldGBC (2013)

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What is Green Building?

• Takes an intelligent approach to energy

• Safeguards our water resources

• Minimises waste and maximises reuse

• Promotes health and well-being

• Keeps our landscape green

• Creates resilient and flexible structures

• Connects us

• Considers all stages of a building life-cycle

WorldGBC / Europe 2013

Green Building

Life cycle

CO2 and €Energy efficiency

Good indoor environment

• Heat

• Lighting

• Acoustics

• Air quality

Material efficiency Property use

• Energy and water use

• Efficient use of space

• Healthy

• Comfortable

• Smart

Accessibility

Community structure

What is Green Building?

ServicesService networks

Transport systems

Infrastructure

EqualityAccessibility

Availability of services

Different population groups

CostsLife Cycle costs

Investments

Community structureIntegrative

Performance

Flexibility

Culture and landscape

structureLandscape structure

Built cultural environment

Landscape and townscape

Resource EfficiencyEnergy

Materials

Natural Resources

Lived environmentSafety

Health

Comfort

EcosystemsEcological context

Biodiversity

E C O N O M Y

H U M A N E N V I R O N M E N T

RisksEmisission

Noise

Contaminated soil

What is Sustainable City?

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Ways to improve guidance towards sustainability

• Kyoto Protocol (before 2012),

• International climate change negotiations (after 2012)

International Agreements

• EPBD Energy Performance of Buildings Directive – obliges new construction units to approach ”near zero energy buildings” by the year 2020

• RES Renewable Energy Directive

• EED Energy Efficiency Directive

• Climate and Energy Strategy (2020)

EU directives & targets

• Energy and Climate Road Map (2050, carbon neutral society)

• National Climate and Energy Strategy (2020 targets)

• Land Use and Builiding Act

• National Building Code of Finland

National regulation and controls

• Building Performance Indicators, Green Building Council Finland

• Environmental assesment methods, LEED & Breeam

• Energy efficiency contracts for municipalities, rentals and office spaces 2008Actors themselves

International certifications tools

LEED (US) & BREEAM (UK)

LEED: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (USGBC, US)

• Certificates are granted by the USGBC

• Levels: Certified, Silver, Gold or Platinum.

BREEAM: Building Research Establishment’s Environmental

Assessment Method (BRE, UK)

• Classification system can be nationalised in a country-specific manner (e.g.

Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands)

• Certificates are granted in the UK

• Levels: Pass, Good, Very Good, Excellent, Outstanding

More than 1500 environmentally classified buildings in Finland

Promise

• More than 1 500 sites since the last 10 years. (Senaatti, SOK,

Tapiola, Kesko, VVO, ATT)

LEED

• Certified 8, Silver 22, Gold 55 and Platinum 11. Overall 96

• KOy Lintulahdenvuori (Platinum), Nordea, Kauppakeskus Sello,

Kaari, Trio and Skanssi, Moveres Business Garden, US

Embassy Innovator Centre

BREEAM

• Pass 2, Good 22, Very good 31, Exellent 2, Outstanding 0.

Overall 57

• KOy Vantaan Honkatalot, Sponda renovation in downtown

Helsinki, Business Park Polaris (Castor), and Lahden Duo 2

Sello kauppakeskus

Moveres Business Garden

The costs and benefits of Green Building

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•In general 0 % - 4

% higher building

and design costs

•High level

certificates 0 – 10 %

•Zero energy

houses 12,5 %

•Renovation 0,3 %

- 12 %, can be up to

40 %

The business case for green building, WGBC, 2013

National assessment mechanism for building processes

• Develop a Finnish assessment mechanism for integrating sustainability to

building processes, which is more simple and light than the international

certifications (by 2016)

• Use

- New construction, deep renovations

- Offices, health centers and commercial buildings

- Public service buildings

- Residential buildings

• Compatible with Building Performance Indicators. Coordinated by Building

Information Foundation RTS.

• Formerly a national environmental classification PromisE

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Building Performance Indicators

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ECONOMY

# Lifecycle Cost €

(EN 15643-4)

ENERGY

# Imported energy

# Imported primary energy

# Baseload power

GLOBAL WARMING

# Life-cycle carbon footprint kg CO2e

(EN 15978)

# Operating carbon footprint kg CO2e

(GHG Protocol)

OCCUPANTS

# Indoor air quality classification (S1-3)

# Share of satisfied occupants %

Building Performance Indicators

• Simple tool to develop in a long-term sustainable manner

• Takes into account the whole life cycle

• Economy, energy, environment and property users

• Comparability and ”shared language”

• Complements legislation

• Based on international standards

• Either to existing buildings or in the design phase.

• For management, planning, building, upkeep, selling, renting, tendering,

competitions…

• Benchmark, education, online tool

Other models and tools in Finland

• Energy Efficiency Agreements, implementation of the EU energy

efficiency (2008-16) / Energy Authority

- Residential buildings (The Ministry of Environment)

- Tertiary buildings (The Ministry of Transport and Communications)

• ESCO-model, service business, where external expert makes energy

efficiency related actions. Expenses are covered by savings achieved. /

Motiva Oy

• Green Office, 170 organisations in Finland and elsewhere / WWF

Finland

• Nordic Ecolabel for residential buildings, schools and day-cares /

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Green Building Council Finland

Events

• Green Forum –breakfasts, seminars

Projects

•Energy efficiency in communities, Nordic Urban Development, Nordic Sustainable Materials,

Build Upon / renovation in Europe, Sustainable Buildings and Construction

GBPro –training

•Continuation training, that increases skills related to sustainability choices in the built

environment.

Newsletters and web site

•Current news from us and other sources.

Members according to field, 111 organizations

Product manufacturers 18 %

Import, wholesale, and retail0 %

Design and consulting34 %

Construction companies7 %

Property development and contracting

7 %

Property maintenance and services

4 %

Owners8 %

Users / Occupants4 %

Education3 %

Public administration

4 %

Associations and foundations11 %

Sustainable Buildings andConstruction Programme (SBC) 2015-16

Objective 2016•Promoting sustainable production and consumption in the building sector globally. •Sharing best practices and brining market information and networking opportunities to actors in the Finnish sustainable building sector especially in the developing countries and economies in Africa•Deliverables 2016•Three Trust Fund –projects (100 … 200 kUSD) •One Flagship –implementation project (> 2 M USD) prepared•50 committed project partners (mainly companies)•An important media event highlighting the results of the Finnish-led project at the Habitat III Conference in October.

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Co-creating Europe’s National Renovation Strategies 2015-16OBJECTIVE 2016

• Create supporting material for preparing national renovation strategies in

participating Member states.

• Promoting renovation to actors in the sector.

• Sharing best practices in renovation and learning together.

DELIVERABLES 2016

• 88 events, of which 6 will be organized in Finland around the country together with

partners.

• 1000 stakeholder groups participating at the EU-level.

• The creation of RenoWiki-database to support energy efficient renovation building.

The website will gather all the materials created.

• Project concepts and innovations to solve the challenges of renovation: Financial

Innovation, Business Model Innovation, Public Sector, Innovation and Behavioural

Innovation.

Climate Street –project 2015-17

•A street for climate-friendly solutions is based in downtown Helsinki and the district of

Tikkurila in Vantaa, where the companies and inhabitants of the area can participate together

with the city officials and other partners in the development of the city of the future.

•Testing platform and a place of reference for low-carbon products and services, both for

participating companies and the city.

•Companies can develop their services together with the end users.

•City of Helsinki, City of Vantaa, Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority HSY and

Aalto University.

Future challenges & possibilities

Life Cycle Analysis and

embodied energy

Renewable energy forms

Materiel efficiency

Life Cycle thinking in

investments

Healthiness

System thinking & areal level

Spatial efficiency

New materials,

wood in new forms

ICT and BIM (Building

information models)

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