WORLD TOILET DAY - ROCA LISBOA GALLERY

ECOPADEV - International Research Project - European Community Funding - project  ID - EVK4-CT-2001-00064

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Designing a new district or rehabilitation of an existing urban area are long term projects that have important impacts on the life of an urban project.

 

The EU Directives regarding buildings is to improve their energy performance and to move towards zero energy buildings. But the energy performance of buildings starts to be defined at the urban planning stage when the urban plan layout starts to shape.

 

Additionally energy performance is neither static nor independent from other planning criteria that also deal with the plan of the urban space, the use of endogenous resources, either dealing with renewable energies, water management and recycled materials.