The Interdisciplinary Research Group (IAG) "Sustainable construction – for saving resources and climate protection" is investigating the obstacles to sustainable and climate-friendly construction. There are new technologies and building materials that lead to a reduction of the CO2 footprint. New buildings, but also infrastructure structures, should be planned holistically according to the aspects of sustainability. Additionally, a reversal toward maintenance and further development of the building stock is necessary. In fact,
however, relatively little is happening. The aim of the IAG is to identify the obstacles that stand in the way of a positive development, to analyze them, to develop countermeasures and strategies, and to formulate appropriate recommendation.
The research group, which consists of 22 members, first collects information from the construction sector. It is therefore conducting a survey to obtain practical answers to the following questions:
(1) Which sustainable solutions you have implemented in projects?
(2) Which sustainable solutions were incorporated into the final built structure?
(2a) What
helped these sustainable solutions to be adopted?
(2b) What hindered these sustainable solutions from being adopted?
The survey is not about passing judgement on what has happened in the past. The IAG members would like to know what types of sustainable solutions you have proposed in construction projects, which solutions were ultimately incorporated in a project, and what helped or hindered this process. The IAG recognizes that these factors are often beyond your control - the idea of this survey is simply to establish a frame of reference.
Please complete this survey for any recent projects you have worked on that meet these criteria:
(a)
your office has now finished work on the project.
It is not required that the project was built, but your company's involvement in the project should now be finished. If the project was a competition entry, it should have won or nearly won.(b) your office started working on the project after 2010.
