23-25 November 2009
Vienna City Hall

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This event is officially recognized as an EU Energy Day.


Day 1, 23 November 2009
 
9:30 Registration

10:15 Opening Session
 
Chair
  Wolfgang Förster, City of Vienna, Head of Division for Housing Research and International Relations; Chair of the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management
 
Welcome and introductory remarks by
  Heinz Fischer, Federal President of Austria
  Ján Kubiš, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
  Michael Häupl, Mayor and Governor of Vienna
 

David Orr, President, CECODHAS

 
Keynote presentation: Energy efficient residential housing - opportunities and challenges
  Jochen Flasbarth, President, German Federal Environmental Agency, Dessau
 
Draft Action Plan for Energy Efficient Housing:
Introduction, explanation and discussion
  Presentation of the draft Action Plan for Energy Efficiency in Housing
Oleg Golubchikov
, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment.

  Discussion and input
Michael Finneran
, T.D., Minister for Housing & Local Services of the Irish Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Abduvali Komilov
, Minister, Director of the State Agency for Construction and Architecture under the Government of Tajikistan
 
Panel discussion

12:30 Lunch Break

13:30 Plenary Session II:
Strengthening institutional capacities: legislation, management and finance

  Chair
  Elena Szolgayová, Director of Housing Policy Department, Ministry of Construction and Regional Development of Slovak Republic, Bratislava.

  Presentations
 
EU Energy Efficiency Action Plan and recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
Martin Elsberger, European Commission, DG Energy and Transport, Unit D4 - Energy Efficiency, Brussels
 
Targeted policy without new laws - the housing developers' competitions in Vienna
Dieter Groschopf, Deputy Managing Director, Wohnfonds Wien - Fund for Housing Construction and Urban Renewal, Vienna
 
Energy efficient housing in large housing estates. New impulses from a nation-wide competition
Rolf Müller & Nadine Walter, Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development, within Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR), Bonn
 
Using revolving EU Structural Funds to promote energy efficiency in housing - the Estonian scheme
Mirja Adler, Credit and Export Guarantee Fund KredEx, Housing Division, Tallinn
 
Questions & answers

14:45 Presentations cont.
 
The Eco-Mietspiegel - Initiation of energy residential renewal on local comparative rent
Reiner Wild, Berliner Mieterverein e.V., International Union of Tenants (IUT)
 
Climate Change Begins at Home
Anne Power, London School of Economics, School of Economics and Political Science, London
 
Towards energy efficient housing - the importance of local energy planning
Eoin Ó Broin & Filip Johnsson, Department of Energy and Environment, Energy Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg
 
Questions & answers

15:45 Coffee Break

16:15 Presentations cont.
 
Potential for financing energy efficiency: examples from countries of South-Eastern and Eastern Europe
Oleg Dzioubinski, UNECE, Sustainable Energy Division, Geneva
 
National Building Renovation Code
Angel Minev, Association for Renovation of Multi-family Buildings - ARES, Sofia
 
Improving energy efficiency in the Armenian building sector
Samvel Srapyan, Housing Stock Management and Communal Policy Division, Ministry of Urban Development of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan
 
Problems and opportunities of the improving energy efficiency in buildings in Kyrgyzstan
Elena Rodina, project manager of the UNDP/GEF "Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings" project, Bishkek
 
Energy efficiency of housing: examples from Tajikistan
Akram Akbarov & Ikramzhan Negmatov, Centre of Skill Development and Consulting Services, Tajik Technical University, Dushanbe
 
Questions & answers

18:00 End of working day 1

20:00 Evening Reception in MuseumsQuartier

  hosted by
Michael Ludwig
, Vice-Mayor and Executive City Councillor for Housing, Housing Construction and Urban Renewal, Vienna


Day 2, 24 November 2009  
 
09:00 Plenary Session III:
Developing technological performance and deploying innovations

 
  Chair

Martti Lujanen, Director General, Ministry of the Environment of Finland, Helsinki

9:00 Presentations
 
Achieving Zero Carbon Homes in UNECE Region - Lessons from the UK
Yee Chow, Scott Wilson Ltd, London
 
Design codes for better integrated urban development, The Urban II Working Group Hopus - Housing Praxis for Urban Sustainability
Federico De Matteis & Carola Clemente, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Architecture "Valle Giulia"
 
Spatial arrangement of buildings and their service infrastructure to increase energy efficiency in housing
Nikolai Bobylev, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
Wolfgang Wende, German Federal Environment Agency, Dessau

From the real world for the real world - Quality control in large scale buildings projects - The interplay between construction management and planning
Roland Matzig, r-m-p architekten, Mannheim
 
Questions & answers

10:20 Coffee Break

10:50 Presentations cont.
 
From demonstration projects to commercial scale deployment - based on preliminary experiences from IEA SHC Task 37
Are Rødsjø, Special advisor, The Norwegian State Housing Bank, Trondheim
Trond Haavik, Director international operations, SEGEL AS, Nordfjordeid
 
Sustainometrics: Measuring progress toward energy efficiency and sustainability
W. Cecil Steward, Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities, Omaha
Sharon B. Kuska, University of Nebraska, College of Architecture, Lincoln
 
Questions & answers

11:30 Keynote: Perspectives for the future - Passive House Technology
  Wolfgang Feist, University of Innsbruck, Head of "Passivhaus Institut" in Darmstadt, Germany

12:00 Lunch Break

13:00 Plenary Session IV:
Improving access to energy efficiency: public housing, affordability and regional differences

  Chair
  Axel Viehweger, Federation of Cooperative Housing Associations of Saxony, Chair of CECODHAS Eastern Europe working group, Dresden

  Presentations
 
Energy-efficient rehabilitation in dwellings and neighbourhoods seen from a social, environmental and economic policy perspective
Núria Pedrals Pugés, Director-General for Quality in the Building and Rehabilitation of Dwellings, Department of the Environment and Housing, Government of Catalonia, Barcelona
 
IEE ECOLISH project: Energy exploitation and performance contracting for low income and social housing
Peter Op 't Veld, Cauberg-Huygen RI bv. Maastricht
 
Energy efficiency housing: The experience of Ukraine
Vyacheslav Tolkovanov, Director for International Cooperation, Investment Development and European Integration Issues, Ministry of Regional Development and Construction of Ukraine, Kiev
 
Questions & answers

14:00 Presentations cont.
 
Tackling fuel poverty through energy efficiency strategies
Noel Rice, Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Belfast
 
Energy efficiency in social housing: the importance of tenants' behavior
Luc Stijnen, C.V. Zonnige Kempen, Westerlo
 
UNDP-GEF Support to Energy Efficient Buildings in Eastern Europe and CIS
Marina Olshanskaya, UNDP-GEF Regional Technical Adviser on Climate Change, Europe and CIS, Bratislava
 
Questions & answers

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Panel discussion: Conclusions for the Action Plan for Energy Efficient Housing
Wolfgang Förster, City of Vienna, Head of Division for Housing Research and International Relations; Chair of the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management
Oleg Golubchikov, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment
Martti Lujanen, Director General, Ministry of the Environment of Finland, Helsinki
Elena Szolgayová, Director of Housing Policy Department, Ministry of Construction and Regional Development of Slovak Republic, Bratislava
Axel Viehweger, Federation of Cooperative Housing Associations of Saxony, Chair of CECODHAS Eastern Europe working group

16:15 Closing remarks

16:30 End of working day 2


Day 3, 25 November 2009  
 
09:00 Study Tour: Examples of energy-efficient housing construction and refurbishment in Vienna
 
  Guided by Wolfgang Förster & Wolfgang Dvorak, City of Vienna
Working language: English only; participation free of charge

12:30 End of the workshop
   
   
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