The document summarizes discussions from several workshops at the Nordic GBC Conference in Helsinki on sustainable offices, urban planning, renovating existing buildings, and sustainable renovation in Finland. The workshops addressed challenges like educating decision-makers, overcoming objections to sustainable projects, balancing technical and spatial considerations, and promoting new ways of thinking. Solutions focused on collaboration between stakeholders, using tools to ensure cooperation, and changing mindsets around issues like mobility, energy use, and quality of life.
2. Workshop
1:
Sustainable
Office
SOLUTIONS
TO
EDUCATE
AND
INSPIRE
ALL
LEVELS
OF
ORGANISATION
Decision
makers
• Understanding
change,
that
change
is
happening
and
the
risks
involved
of
not
doing
anything
• Appeal
their
ambiFon
and
challenge
their
competeFveness
• Show
them
the
money
• Help
them
understand
points
with
one-‐
on-‐
one
educaFon
• Give
them
right
tools
the
find
their
soluFons
(make
sure
it
is
the
right
one)
Communicators
• Involving
the
gate
keepers
is
essenFal
• Understanding
the
advantage
of
pioneering
• CommunicaFng
through
stories
and
touching
their
emoFons
• CreaFng
brand
and
company
culture
• CommunicaFng
achievements
eg.
savings
and
earnings
• CommunicaFng
to
those
who
value
sustainable
office
• Right
message
to
right
people
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3. Workshop
1:
Sustainable
Office
SOLUTIONS
TO
EDUCATE
AND
INSPIRE
ALL
LEVELS
OF
ORGANISATION
Employees
• Involving
everybody
and
giving
opportunity
to
share
ideas
with
everybody
• Bring
sustainability
visible
with
conFnuity
and
follow
up
• Linking
corporate
values
with
added
meaning
to
life
by
sustainability
• Change
daily
habits!
• Bring
nature
to
the
office
and
create
room
for
innovaFons
Service
providers
• Also
they
need
to
be
inspired
and
moFvated!
Criteria
and
demands
are
not
enough!
• Help
them
find
differenFaFng
factors!
Why
service
providers
not
visibly
present
here?
• There
is
space
in
the
market!
• BeVer
service
is
paid
beVer!
• Be
open
for
new
services
eg.
Green
wall
maintenance
• Interest
and
commitment
of
the
customer
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4. Workshop
2:
Urban
planning
ISSUES
DISCUSSED
• End
user
perspecFve
• CollaboraFon
between
all
the
parFes
• Process
• Tools
MAIN
CHALLENGES
&
FURTHER
QUESTIONS
• How
to
find
out
what
end
users
want
and
need?
• How
to
involve
all
the
stakeholders
and
collaborate
efficiently?
• Variety
of
tools/cerFficaFon
systems
that
differ
on
content
• Does
cerFficaFon
bring
value?
SOLUTIONS
• Agree
on
common
Nordic
metrics
-‐
remember
tools
have
a
same
scienFfic
background
• Use
tools
to
ensure
collaboraFon.
CollaboraFon
comes
first
cerFficaFon
is
secondary
SUCCESS
STORIES
&
SPECIAL
DISCOVERIES
• Start
with
the
end
user
in
mind
–
how
not
found
a
soluFon
yet
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5. Workshop:
3
&
5:
RenovaQon
ExisQng
Buildings
&
IntegraQve
Design
1.
THE
CHALLENGE
OF
50%
ENERGY
REDUCTION
• Needs
technological
and
behaviour
related
soluFons
(passive
and
acFve)
• ConsumpFon
needs
to
be
both
measured
and
displayed
to
the
end-‐users
• SoluFons
need
to
go
beyond
building
level
into
the
surrounding
environment
2.
HOW
TO
OVERCOME
THE
FAST
NOs?
• First
idenFfy
who
are
the
decision-‐makers
• Define
and
remind
your
team
what
is
important
–
create
the
big
picture
• Speak
the
right
language
to
different
stakeholder
groups
• Prepare
yourself
to
answer
the
fast
NOs
–
idenFfy
the
common
quesFons
• Be
the
facilitator
–
it
is
needed
in
every
projects
Ø Follow
the
principles
of
any
sales
strategy
3.
FINDING
THE
RIGHT
BALANCE
(TECHNICAL
&
SPATIAL)
• Technology
is
over
emphasized
at
Fmes,
old-‐school
methods
do
sFll
work
• Measuring
different
elements
than
only
energy
offers
wider
understanding
to
the
impacts
of
different
means
• Create
and
show
added
value
to
the
end-‐users
• Architects
need
to
be
remind
of
the
impact
of
their
work
SUSTAINABILITY
IS
A
QUESTION
OF
STANDARD
OF
LIVING!
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6. Workshop
4:
Sustainable
RenovaQon
in
Finland
ISSUES
DISCUSSED
-‐
AVAINTEEMAT
• Knowledge
and
skills
• New
ways
of
thinking
• SFcks
and
carrots
MAIN
CHALLENGES
–
KESKEISET
HAASTEET
• New
ways
of
thinking:
living
,
working,
mobility
and
energizing
-‐
boosFng
∑
quality
Fme
*
compeFFvity
/
ecological
effect
• Knowledge:
delearnig
and
relearning
• Reclustering
and
co-‐operaFon:
real
estate
+
construcFon
+
energy
• Management
of
change
• Key
players
(pioneers):
public
authoriFes,
public
and
private
investors,
owners,
tenants,
consultants,
contractors,
energy
service
providers,
...
SOLUTIONS
-‐
RATKAISUT
• BoosFng
open
posiFve
thinking
and
co-‐operaFon
• SupporFng
radical
changes
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7. Workshop
6:
Common
Metrics
ISSUES
DISCUSSED
Common
Metrics:
• Based
on
internaFonal
standards:
CEN
TC
350
• For
measurement,
not
a
label
with
• Performance
based
weighFng
factors
• Life
cycle
approach:
before
/use
/end
/
aher
• Transparent,
performance
based
• 3
pillars
of
sustainability:
environmental,
social
and
economic
way
to
demonstrate
sustainability
• Assessment
focus:
(product
/)
building
/
poriolio
of
building
/
poriolio
• Client
driven
or
regulaFon
driven?
• Simple
and
cost
effecFve
method
• NaFonal
selecFon
or
full
list
(a.
40
indicators)
of
indicators
to
be
used
for
evaluaFon
in
large
• NaFonal
implementaFon
/simplificaFon
of
calculaFon
rules
building
poriolio
• Uniform
reporFng
method
• Simplified
methods
for
pracFcal
MAIN
CHALLENGES
&
FURTHER
QUESTIONS
use,
not
a
scienFfic
tool
• SelecFon
of
indicators:
Full
list
/
Nordic
/
NaFonal
/
Client
• Full
list:
the
most
comprehensive
evaluaFon,
but
lots
of
work
• Few
indicators:
easier
for
market
to
understand
• ImplementaFon
/
simplificaFon
of
calculaFon
rules:
Just
standard
/
Nordic
/
NaFonal
SOLUTIONS
• Common
metrics
can
be
the
easy
tool
for
designers
to
demonstrate
the
difference
of
various
design
opFons
• NaFonal
regulaFon
to
set
the
demand
but
not
to
tell
how
to
do
it
• What
ever
indicators
/
calculaFon
rules
are
selected,
results
need
to
be
presented
transparently
• Each
client
should
choose
either
to
use
the
full
list
or
a
NORDIC
list
of
indicators
• We
should
develop
the
NORDIC
implementaFon
and
simplificaFon
rules
• Nordic
list
and
calculaQon
rules:
same
clients,
climate,
culture
and
regulaQons
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8. Workshop
7:
LEED
Updates
Go-‐through
of
LEED
Updates
LEED
Nordic
Update
• 120
cerFfied
&
registered
in
Finland
• 105
cerFfied
&
registered
in
Sweden
• Under
20
in
Denmark
• Less
in
Norway
and
Iceland
LEED
Swedish
&
Finnish
update
• LEED
&
BREEAM
steady
growth
• Miljäbygnad,
high
growth
• 20
%
plaFnum,
69
%
gold
• Sweden
working
groups
for
LEED,
Energy
and
LEED
Pilot
credits
• DES
guidance
• 2013
Swedish
compliance
paths
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9. Workshop
7:
LEED
Updates
Go-‐through
(LEED)
LEED
In
Finland
• Largest
amount
of
LEED
AP’s
• FIN
9
%
PlaFnum,
45
%
Gold
à
more
LEED
EBOM
• ExisFng
buildings
difficulFes
• Cleaning
chemicals,
energy…
• 2013
standardized
environmental
classificaFon
work
program,
Finnish
compliance
paths,
Regional
priority
credits
EBOM
LEED
v4
updates
• Coming
Autumn
2013
• New
systems:
data
centres,
warehouses,
hospitality
• EBOM:
Schools,
retail,
hospitality,
data
centres,
warehouses
• New
structure
and
major
material
credit
change
(LCA,
sourcing)
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10. Workshop
7:
LEED
Updates
BD&C
Pilot
Credits
(LEED)
• Flexibility
design
• VerFcal
transportaFon
• Robustness
and
durability
• Clean
construcFon,
P1
construcFon
cleanness
class
• Accessibility
&
circulaFon
design
• Urban
agriculture
• Quality
external
areas
&
recreaFonal
spaces
• Shared
ameniFes
&
diverse
use
• Public
transportaFon
enhancement
• Water
heaFng
on
demand
• Building
surface
and
daylight
design
EBOM
Pilot
Credits
(LEED)
• Social
sustainability
• Organic
catering
• Green
lease
• Green
office
• Public
transportaFon
educaFon
&
enhancement
• Business
travel
reducFon
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