Green Building Council Spain (GBCe) has presented this Thursday, 16 December, the GBCe 2021 Country Reportthe first open document analysing the current state of the building sector and their progress in the transformation towards a sustainable model.
Among the conclusions of the report is that the amount of voluntary environmental certifications issued are a direct and simple indicator to measure demand in sustainability in building. In this sense, Spain began the 21st century with virtually no demand for certified buildings. with national or international sustainability labels, such as Verde. Despite this, and although in recent years there has been a boom in the sector, currently less than 0.1% of all constructed or rehabilitated buildings have some form of certification..
the Country Report aims to to organise and structure the work for the coming yearsIn this respect, the EU is trying to get the actions right in order to stimulate and activate demand, which is essential to bring about a more accelerated transformation of the sector. In this line, GBCe has outlined a framework for action subject to five levers for achieving change in demands of buildings and cities: the communicationthe trainingthe regulationthe funding and the innovation. All these levers complement and need each other to achieve the objectives of the study.
On the one hand, communication reinforces the other fourwhile funding is necessary for innovation and has to accompany regulation. In addition, the training is the basis for the others to take effect on a large scale. On the other hand, innovation needs regulatory certainty and communication to be known and, finally, regulation without a trained society or a sector without the capacity to finance itself is a dead letter.
