FutureBalticBauhaus
active 6 months, 3 weeks agoWe are tackling point 2.3 “Sustainable South Baltic “Supporting a circular and more resource-efficient development”. This we do in our application for a project in the South Baltic programme. We will knor if the application is granted on the 17th of April 2024. We write about it here so potential partners can be inspired.
Our objective and common challenge is to show ways of saving CO2-emissions within the sector that contributes the most, the construction sector. According to the Building report 2021 by the German energy agency (dena), 23% of the total global emissions are caused by the withdrawal of resources. The same report states that resource extraction is held responsible for more than 90% of biodiversity loss and the increasing scarcity of drinking water (EU 2019) and thus directly influences the achievement of many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. An essential key to this intense resource-use problem is circularity. Within the concept “FUTURE BALTIC BAUHAUS – CO2-REDUCED” we will enable the sector to become more circular, and thus use less resources, and demonstrate this with actions.
Generally, the project aims to acknowledge and help reach the EU goals for climate protection, such as to reach climate neutrality by 2050 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
We will close the circle of circular economy in practice. The LP is active in the NonHazCity3-project focusing on 3 interconnected issues: 1 Avoiding hazardous building materials 2 Climate neutrality 3 Reusage. The logic is that building materials can only be REUSED if they are nonhazardous – REUSE is the way to climate neutrality – and thus the focus of this project. We are taking this logic in to this project and basing it on THREE LEGS: Pilot projects, a Training program and our “Future Baltic Bauhaus” guideline.
The countries in the South Baltic region around the Baltic Sea have common history and building culture, and through the EU, common objectives for climate protection. Different regional implementation strategies and laws require joint action to simplify and create a new cross-border culture for the economical use of available resources to increase regional added value in the communities. Implementation requires the confidence and enthusiasm of all those involved, for example through the implementation of a common design idea, as it emerged from the Bauhaus of the 1920s in the sense of worldwide dissemination. Based on the Bauhaus development, a cross-border market is to be created in the South Baltic region through joint action, which will be promoted by a common design idea of saving resources by reusing materials. This is the idea of the “Future Baltic Bauhaus” concept/guideline.
Our pilots will focus on achieving the goal of reducing CO2-emissions involving the most important aspects – LOGISTICS – how do we make torn down materials accessible – MATERIALS – which reused materials to be reused for what – ACTUAL USE – show that materials can actually be used for buildings. The investments analyzed in this project are all financed 100 % by the partners themselves by already allocated resources.
The “Future Baltic Bauhaus” Guideline will profit from these pilots considerably, collectively presenting the projects’ results, checklists and strategies as well as knowledge gained from them.
With this approach and actions, awareness will be raised through national channels to reach the Baltic Sea Area. The industry will be offered better capabilities to use reused materials and thus allow the needed change and impact to take place and make the industry more circular and resource-saving.
We will adress all target groups of the building industry and public decision makers, and thus adress planners and designers, building owners and developers, companies, municipalities and policy makers. These all have a vital stake in creating circular solutions.
