Experts discuss sustainable housing and create a virtual forum

Roundtable on active housing was held in Denmark and brought together participants from different countries
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Active Housing Round Table (Round Table on Housing Active) brought together researchers, engineers, architects and experts to discuss how to cope and how to develop sustainable housing components, design solutions and architecture combined with households with low power consumption and zero carbon emission . The meeting took place in Copenhagen (Denmark) and proposes to continue the discussions through the Internet.

According to Michael K. Rasmussen, Chief Marketing Officer Velux who organized the event, the roundtable aims to generate "a catalyst to formulate a visionary response to the measures and innovative solutions to tackle the current challenges in the construction industry and construction with a single solution . The most repeated points about the factors of habitability have focused on human behavior, incentives for responsible action. The completion of projects and flexible and scalable solutions that can change during the lifetime of the building and its users was also discussed. Another issue focused on the need to develop a means of measuring and comparative analysis of habitability.

Among the speakers were Katherine Richardson (Denmark), Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen and Chair of the Danish Climate Change, Mark Rylander (USA), AIA LEED AP (Skilled at Leed) and director William McDonough + Partners, Rob Marsh (Denmark), Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute of Housing Research, University of Aalborg; Duijvestein Kees (Netherlands), Professor of sustainable development in the vicinity of buildings, the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology.

Those interested in participating in the discussion or debate can give access www.activehousing.net. There are also summaries of the discussions of the round table held in Copenhagen, presentations of speakers and short video interviews with the main speakers. The material is in English.