Catalogue for integrated circular design solutions

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DESCRIPTION:

A catalogue of integrated circular and sustainable solutions for positive and low carbon footprint buildings. The catalogue collects a wide range of solutions that could support policymakers, architects, urban planners, and technical practitioners in all the life cycle construction stages. Each solution includes a brief description, the challenges it responds to, the objectives it can achieve, the performance it can guarantee and the benefits, even if not strictly related to the challenges. Best practices on how the solutions can be applied can also be found.

BUSINESS ROUTE

Target Users

Architects, Constructors, Landlords, Local authorities, Social, public and cooperative housing providers

VALUE

Cities are not only one of the major contributors to climate change and CO2 emissions but they are also extremely vulnerable vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Temperature increases and extreme events such as floods, water scarcity and heat waves, are health risks as well as challenges to services and infrastructures. Considering the main impacts of climate change in urban areas the solutions orivuded in the catalogue can help urban areas and development projects tackle key challenges such as: Energy Sustainability (ES), Temperature Regulation (TR), sustainable Water Management (WM), inhabitant’s Health and Wellbeing (HW) and Transition to Circular System (TCS). What is most innovative about the catalogue is the presence of information sheets on products, building systems and technologies, mainly related to enterprises/companies in the local production fabric, which can contribute to the implementation of the proposed solutions.

APPLICATION

The catalogue soon be available in adynamic web version with a freely accessible common part and a specific part where local producers/companies can add their own specific solutions (related to the more general solutions defined within the catalogue itself) and update them, if necessary, in the future. The catalogue can be used also by the other ARV project partners because it is structured starting from general to specific purposes, so each challenge could have a national section where local solutions are presented. Future applications are mainly in the field of building/urban design and policy making.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101036723