Sustainable Low-Rise Housing Conference
 On 7th April 2011, the conference “Sustainable Low-Rise Housing” will take place within the MosBuild trade show in Moscow, Russia.
The goal of the conference is to promote the ideology of green construction – respect for the environment, development of a new model of public consciousness that can unite the society’s effort and direct it towards preservation of the human's natural environment and achievement of the highest standards of building quality and life style.
The conference program includes speeches by representatives from governmental authorities, expert organizations, research and development institutes, architectural and design bureaus, companies implementing green technologies in construction, managers of development and building firms, specialists of service organizations and other players in the market of country estate.
Key conference topics:
1. Contemporary trends in the development of sustainable low-rise building.
2. Green technologies as a way to reduce power consumption and to secure environmental safety of low-rise buildings.
3. Barriers in the way of implementing green technologies into the low-rise housing building practices:
* deficiencies in the legislative, regulatory and legal frameworks;
* absence of governmental programs stimulating actions to improve energy efficiency of private low-rise houses;
* low level of public awareness and general environmental culture of all economic entities;
* use of construction costs as a criterion for evaluation of economic efficiency of an applied technology;
* underestimation of returns on investment during operation of a building through significant reduction of maintenance costs;
* lack of specialists in the field.
4. Economic potential of green technologies.
5. Ways to improve the relation between costs of construction and erection costs and costs for maintenance of a low-rise house built with the use of green technologies.
6. Experience in implementation of pilot projects to build sustainable low-rise housing.
Source: Mosbuild
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