Smart V4 Strategies

South Poland Cleantech Cluster participates in a newly started Visegrad project together with partners – Czech Smart City Cluster, Slovak Smart City Cluster and Digitalis Jolet nonprofit from Hungary. The project “Smart V4 Strategies” was awarded financing support from the Visegrad Fund.

The aim of the project is to connect relevant partners in the given area of SMART strategies and prepare procedures for classification of SMART strategies in V4 countries into one complex database portal. The project offers V4 partners international cooperation in unifying SMART strategies to GreenDeal/SDG rules. The vision is to strengthen the unity and effectiveness in implementation of SMART strategies in all V4 countries.
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South Poland Cleantech Cluster

is the initiator of the krk UrbanHub project - a sustainable CEE (Central- and Eastern European) urbanization hub
krakowurbanhub is a partner in the urbanhub europe consortium of European cities consisting of BLOXHUB in Copenhagen, KIRAHub in Helsinki, Munich Urban Colab, FACTORY Hammerbrooklyn Hamburg, FAKTORY Berlin, Urban Resilience Hub Barcelona
krk UrbanHub is a national and international meeting place that engages people in architecture, design and sustainable urban development. This is done through exhibitions, debates, events, business development and new partnerships.
krk UrbaHhub is an ecosystem for creating cities of the future, and at the same time a space to share ideas, skills and strategies for designing buildings and urban development based on a people-centered approach and high standards of sustainable development, and a membership-based community combining urban development, architecture, design, design, construction, circular economy and digitization.
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South Poland Cleantech Cluster

SPCleantech is co-founder of European Alliance for Cross- Industrial Circular Economy Investments (ICEI Alliance) consisting of European clusters and universities. During 2020-2021 there have been held meetings to prepare the establishment of the European Alliance for Cross- Industrial Circular Economy Investments, hosted by the Circular Economy Centre at Digipolis, Kemi, Finland.

The ICEI Alliance has for ambition to make Europe the global industrial circular economy platform to accelerate the deployment of world-class circular economy solutions to industry. It acts as a pipeline of business-led circular economy investment projects. Alliance members support businesses with the structuring of their investment cases as well as with accessing funding and financing streams.
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Platform: “Smart-low carbon buildings, BMS-management systems and ecological building materials”

Architects:

  • Bjerg Arkitekter Polska
  • BLOK Architekci
  • Horizon Studio
  • SUMA Architektów

Technological companies:

  • AG System
  • Anew Institute
  • APAGroup
  • BMW
  • C6 Polska
  • DIMPLEX Polska
  • Frapol
  • KIDS&Co
  • Lumico
  • MARR
  • MPEC Kraków
  • Nilan
  • NordicHouse
  • PalettenWerk
  • RM Filipowicz
  • Slag Recycling
  • SMS Group
  • THB
  • Termoklima
  • Tines
  • Yabimo

Construction:

  • Łęgprzem
  • Podium Park
  • PP Leman

Institutions:

  • Akademia Górniczo Hutnicza (AGH)
    • Centrum Energetyki
    • Center for Sustainable Development and Energy Conservation
    • Centrum Zaawansowanych Technologii Miasta Przyszłości AGH
  • Politechnika Krakowska
    • INTECH PK
    • Małopolskie Centrum Budownictwa Energooszczędnego (MCBE)
  • Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny
  • Uniwersytet Jagielloński
  • Uniwersytet Rolniczy
  • Gmina Raciechowice

NGO:

  • Energie Cités

Partners:

Stowarzyszenie Budowniczych Domów i Mieszkań, PGE Energia Ciepła, PLGBC, Ecophon-Saint Gobain, Glasssolutions, Macrosoft, ORLEN Oil, Ponzio, Phillips, Samsung

Cluster members such as architects, construction companies, photovoltaic producers, green building materials, building management systems, universities, municipalities and NGOs participate in the platform’s cooperation. The aim of cooperation is to promote innovation among cluster members and to develop an innovative, competitive product to the Polish market.

An Intelligent Building is one that:

  • Provides a productive and cost-effective built environment through optimization of its four basic components – structure, systems, services and management – and the interrelationships between them:
Focusing on the benefit of the owners and their desired indoor environment.
  • So as to maximize the efficiency of its occupants: 
Focusing on the benefit of the users and creating desired indoor environment for occupants
  • Allows effective management of resources with minimum life costs: 
Focusing on the benefit of the Managers and the environmental and economic impact of creating desired indoor environment.

Therefore:

  • The built environment should be productive, safe, healthy, thermally, aurally and visually comfortable.
  • The building has potential to serve future generations: sustainability, or adaptability over the life cycle of the building and safeguarding the earth and environment resources.
  • Financial aspect: the building can be built within some cost constraints whilst retaining market value.

Life Cycle Design

A “cradle-to-grave” analysis of building products, from the gathering of raw materials to their ultimate disposal, provides a better understanding of the long-term costs of materials. These costs are paid not only by the client, but also by the owner, the occupants, and the environment. The principles of Life Cycle Design provide important guidelines for the selection of building materials. Each step of the manufacturing process, from gathering raw materials, manufacturing, distribution, and installation, to ultimate reuse or disposal, is examined for its environmental impact.

A material’s life cycle can be organized into three phases:

Pre-Building; Building; and Post-Building. These stages parallel the life cycle phases of the building itself. The evaluation of building materials’ environmental impact at each stage allows for a cost-benefit analysis over the lifetime of a building, rather than simply an accounting of initial construction costs.

Buildings – Energy Efficiency report

On 28 June 2013, the Commission published a report on progress by member States towards Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (NZEB), which are to become the norm for all new buildings in the EU by the end of 2020, and two years earlier for public buildings. This report is largely based on the information contained in the national plans for NZEBs submitted by eight Member States (BE, DK, CY, FI, LT, NL, SE and UK) as of the end of November 2012. In addition, information was drawn from the second National Energy Efficiency Action Plans.

The conclusion of the report is that too little progress has been made by the Member States in their preparations towards NZEBs by 2020. Member States have to significantly step up their efforts to implement the requirements regarding NZEBs in the EPBD to ensure that the EU’s longer-term climate objectives are not jeopardised and the building sector can take full advantage of the opportunities NZEBs present.