How to plan green neighbourhoods? Kuidas planeerida keskkonnahoidlikku naabruskonda? - Swedish experiences of applying sustainability certification systems in urban planning Charlotta Faith-Ell 2013-09-26
Example of certification systems for urban areas BREEAM Communities (UK) CASBEE (Japan) DGNB (Germany) LEED for Neighborhood Development (USA) Living Building Challenge (Canada) Green Star Communities (Australia)
Few aspects Many aspects The most common systems in Sweden Materials Elements Buildings Areas Infrastructure
BREEAM Communities An independent, third party assessment and certification standard Addresses key environmental, social and economic sustainability objectives that have impact on large scale development projects Three steps: Step 1 Establishing the principle of development Step 2 Determining the layout of the development Step 3 Designing the details
BREEAM Communities Six Categories Governance: To ensure community involvement and leadership in running the development Social and economic wellbeing Local economy: To create a healthy economy (employment opportunities and thriving businesses) Health: To improve or maintain physical and mental health Social wellbeing: To ensure a social cohesive community Some issues are mandatory Majority issues are optional Resources and energy: To reduce carbon emissions Land use and ecology: To improve ecological biodiversity Transport and movement: To create an efficient and safe system for movement Outstanding Excellent Very good Good Pass Unclassified Innovation
BREEAM Communities BREEAM Communities makes use of the studies and strategies that are prepared to meet the UK and EU legislative requirements by accepting them as a part of the evidence required to achieve credits. To achieve a rating, the scheme requires the developer to go above and beyond the minimum requirements set out in national and international policies. (From: Arts & Faith-Ell 2010)
HCS - Sustainability Certification of Urban areas The picture belongs to the City of Stockholm
Masthusen Malmö Adapt The illustration is the property of PEABKanozi Arkitekter, Masthusen, Diligentia, Malmö
Varvsstaden Malmö White PEAB, Varvsstaden
Kabeln Neighbourhood Sundbyberg
Why certify an urban area?
DIALOGUE COLLABORATION CLEARNESS OBJECTIVE INFLUENCE
WELL-INFORMED DECISIONS ALL QUESTIONS AT THE SAME TIME MORE INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS COST SAVINGS
ATTRACTIVITY DEMAND MARKETING OBJECTIVE
BENEFIT AMBITIOUS ACTORS GENERATION OF KNOWLEDGE PUSH THE DEVELOPMENT FORWARD
What have we done?
We have a joint working process that engages and leads to sustainable urban development VISION OF THE PROJECT HCS
10 workshops with 120 people
The result has been collected at a webpage
6 seminars with 800 people
May 2010
October 2010
June 2011 Boverket
Stakeholders involved in HCS Phase 1 and/or wants to get involved in HCS Phase 2 (75) Sweden Green Building Council WSP Norrköping municipality Umeå municipality NCC Diligentia Malmö City Stockholm City PEAB IVL Linköping University Energy Agency Transport Administration ational Board of Housing, Building and Planning Göteborg Energy KTH Delegation for Sustainable Cities White SBUF Atkins Två punkt noll Akademiska hus East Sweden Energy Agency Skanska Tema Vattenfall Vasakronan Quality Architects Tengbom Riksbyggen Jernhusen Huddinge municipality Mistra Urban Futures HSB Jernhusen Avfall Sverige Arcona Asfaltsblomman Bengt Dahlgren Borås stad COWI eon Ecoprofile Ekologigruppen Ekoplan Forsen Projekt Hifab Karin Nykvist Arkitektkontor Kim Weinehammar Swedish Union of Tenants Kjellgren Kaminsky Architechture Lund University Miljöbyrån Ecoplan Niras Nyréns arkitektkontor Radar arkitektur & planering Ramböll Riksbyggen Skanska SP Spacescape Strabag Projektutveckling Sweco Synk arkitektur Trivector Traffic Tyréns Uppsala municipality ÅF Föreningen BoIHOP Täby municipality Wallenstam Växjö municipality Älvstranden utveckling Ängelholms municipality Byggvarubedömningen Östersund municipality Båstad municipality
FUTURE WORK
Continue to collaborate
Get it financed
Adapt BREEAM Communities to a Swedish context
Develop a Swedish framework for sustainable urban development
Courses in sustainable urban development and sustainability certification of urban areas
Sweden Green Building Conference Green Building Awards
Ways forward Sustainability learns us that we have to go beyond project approval For responsible project delivery, there is a need to link-up IA with several tools such as BREEAM etc Creating a network for people working with sustainability schemes similar to the one that IA practitioners have Trial of new cases in phase 2 introduce requirements to link up with Strategic Environmental Assessments (From: Arts & Faith-Ell 2010)
Thank you! Charlotta.faith-ell@wspgroup.se Ann-kristin.karlsson@wspgroup.se