Analysis and comparison

Environmental considerations are becoming one of the key features in the design when it comes to constructing modern, sustainable residential buildings. In an effort to streamline procedures and practices, the project Longlife has conducted a comparative review of these among the countries Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and Russia (associated organizations).

The countries involved have shared knowledge and experiences with each other about how their respective building processes operate. These are collated and analysed. There are differences and commonnesses in the state of technology, administrative and legal procedures, financial situation, demographic needs, and how a ‘housing project’ functions.

With this exercise Longlife has started to ensure that differences across the Baltic Sea Region will be minimised as regards environmentally-friendly residential constructions.

This initial comparative stage covers planning, building permit and tendering procedures, practices for developing and operating housing and construction technologies. The report reflects the currently most applicable features of the participating countries’ processes.

Longlife project partners work in three competence teams to use the special know how and experiences and to cooperate in the public private partnership composition.

The report analyses in the competence team 1 – Engineering and building technology, design standards – the engineering and technology standards in the countries Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Poland and Russia.

The report shows for the competence team 2 – Administration procedures, licensing rules, tendering rules, laws – the comparison and investigations of administration procedures, building permit rules, tendering rules and laws in the participating countries.

The report provides for competence team 3 – Economical and financial basis – a general and a specific overview about economical and financial issues, sustainability and quality aspects in the involved countries.

This report is basis for the next work package: development of standards, criteria and specifications for a sustainable, resource saving residential building.