Retrofitting

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How can we face the climate change and urban heat islands?

Cagliari

Towards new urban approach and strategies and action to solve the challenge!

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How can we prepare Brno for Climate Change?

Brno

According to #brno2050 strategy and the votes from the citizens, one of the most important aspects of the quality of life will be the healthy and living environment as well as the nature in the city. Let's prepare Brno for Climate Change!

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How can Galway become one of the lowest carbon footprint cities in the world by 2030?

Galway

The top 100 highest-footprint cities worldwide drive roughly 20% of the global carbon footprint. If all cities globally, whether large or small, made concerted efforts to reduce their carbon footprints it would make a significant impact on decarbonisation pathways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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Architecture for the fairer future of our society and environment

Zaječar

How can we combine new concepts and technologies along with traditional techniques to help improve the simultaneous wellbeing of the individual, the society, the built and the natural environment?

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How can the city centre of Brno become car-free?

Brno

Give an overview of how the traffic and the parking situation is like today and what problems in the city are linked to this. Describe what the exact problems are, related to privately owned cars (POV), which should be solved.

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How can we cool the city together?

Zagreb

As many other highly urbanised areas Zagreb is significantly warmer than its rural surroundings. City itself is heat island, but there are also smaller spaces in the city warmer than others - heat islands.

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How can we encourage our citizens to reduce their carbon footprint and reduce energy consumption?

Pesaro

The City of Pesaro intend to regenerate the district making it more energy-efficient.

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Building Climate-Neutral Neighborhoods: How to make room for innovation, adaptation and cooperation?

Delft

The process of thinking and designing new neighborhoods from scratch involves careful planning and decision-making, as well as clear ambitions to be matched. How can we sustain an adaptive and sustainable project while working closely with all the stakeholders and preventing lock-in decisions?

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How can we develop a system to measure green areas in the urban environment of Brno

Brno

The goal is to be able to better measure green areas in Brno by using GIS and satellite data.

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How do we make retrofitting more sustainable?

Buildings play a crucial role in mitigating climate change and are directly linked to the resilience of future neighbourhoods, districts, and cities. There is an urgent need for cities to bring about a significant increase in current retrofit rates to realise the "well below two degrees" Paris goal.

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As the built environment contributes to 40% of global emissions, it is of the utmost importance to increase energy efficiency and the use of (decentralised) renewable energy sources. This contributes to both the Paris Agreement and additionally to numerous Sustainable Development Goals.

With 80% of the current building stock in Europe likely to still be operational in 2050, systemic and scalable deep retrofit (near zero net energy/CO2 emissions) solutions have a vast potential to contribute to a low/zero carbon, built environment. An integral part of the pathway are innovative and systemic retrofit solutions that go beyond ‘business-as-usual’ in today’s market.

For the needed change, which requires a tripling of the retrofit rate from 1% to 3%, small incremental steps are not going to suffice. Rather, we need a “whole systems change”. This system includes national and European governments and their various and sometimes conflicting policies and regulations; the fragmented supply chains of manufacturers, subcontractors, builders, architects and consultants; national energy infrastructures, utility companies, a growing number of energy collectives and energy service companies; the urban space with city councils, departments, mayors, housing corporations; banks, retrofit funds, and many more.

Urban renewal programmes that are fundamentally driven by a local community will create the opportunity to comprehensively address the challenges of deeply retrofitting buildings and creating new energy supply systems that deliver social value first and decarbonisation second.

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