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There is increased demand for goods, services and high-quality solutions in Baltic States as in any society with rapid development. However, it is mainly limited to issues related to service or product brand.
At the same time, global processes take place that can have a significant effect on the development of each society:
- The rapid growth in traditional energy resource prices that affects global economic development processes.
- Increase of gasses causing the green-house effect in the atmosphere that determines changes in the climate.
- Degradation of the environment caused as a result of industrial development and wrong resource use policy.
Following these processes and public pressure, certification schemes are being developed globally as well as other management supervision systems in order to promote more careful use of resources and better environment-friendly management.
Society becomes more focused on careful use of the environment and natural resources, even though now it is not yet active in issues related to living space quality. This includes searching for sustainable, complex solutions on how to use all kinds of energy, water, local, renewable and other resources in a more optimal way in order to create high-quality, aesthetic, healthy and environment-friendly living spaces.
Taking into consideration the existing situation and urgent necessity to ensure the transfer of knowledge on global experience and practice in Green construction, on 22 November 2007 Colliers International in cooperation with the Society “Zalas Majas”, Pasaules Dabas Fonds and the main sponsor SIA “Jaunrigas Attistibas Uznemums”, is holding a 3rd International seminar for industry professionals - “Sustainable Development – Green Building” in Reval Hotel Latvija, hall Alfa
The objective of the seminar is:
To promote cooperation of professionals and decision making authorities in sustainable construction development in Latvia and Baltic States.
Tasks of the seminar:
- To review development and management of different sustainable construction projects;
- To introduce participants of the seminar to various sustainable construction evaluation systems;
- To introduce participants of the seminar to the principles of sustainable construction evaluation prepared by the Latvian work group;
- To start a discussion on implementation of the evaluation system in Latvia.
The target group of the seminar is:
- Politicians and State and local government decision makers
And professionals of the sectors:
- Construction engineers, construction engineering offices and organizations representing them;
- construction companies and organizations representing them;
- project development companies, real estate companies and their representatives;
- architects, architect offices and architect organizations;
- real estate managers;
- nature and environment protection non-governmental organizations;
- home construction and construction material production companies;
- energy resource and energy producers;
- banks and other financial institutions;
- local government and State institutions;
- research institutes and universities.
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