SD Course in Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, 12-23 Febraury 2006

1. Concept of sustainable
development in built environment

2. Contents
• Introduction
• Highlighting problems
• Indicators
• On the way to sustainability
- vision
- solutions and scenarios
• Conclusions

3. Introduction
• The phrase built environment refers to the
manmade surroundings that provide the setting
for human activity, ranging from the large-scale
civic surroundings to the personal places.
• The layers of civil infrastructures are typically
designed for minimum first cost, and constructed
and maintained at least cost, with little regard for
the negative impact on other layers of service.

4. Highlighting problems

5. Problems
• Due to existing trend of young people
migration from country side to cities, we
observe increase in building intensity in
cities.
Quantity Quality

6. Problems
• Obsolete technologies and extensive way
of building sector development results into
ineffective energy consumption.
Energy
Quality consumption

7. Problems
• Huge lack of
legislative
mechanisms on the
land and real estate
market.
• Corruption and
bureaucracy in
building sector.

8. Problems
• Almost all
construction waste is
utilized by landfill or
incineration.

9. Problems
• According to road development program to 2011
almost all money will be used for keeping road in
current state and as a payment for loans.

10. Indicators
• Urbanization rate (growth of cities
population).
• Percentage of houses and buildings,
which are in emergency condition.
• Quantity of energy losses during
transportation.
• Percentage of ecologically clean building
materials used.

11. On the way to sustainability

12. Vision
• Equally developed regions considering
their geographical and resource potential.
• By 2030 the usage of renewable energy
sources will be near 15 %.
• Substantial growth in usage of energy
saving technologies and contemporary
equipment.
• Building industry using mainly ecologically
safe and effective materials.

13. Vision
• Government provides support for
introduction of new sustainable
technologies.
• Effective legislative mechanisms for real
estate and land markets.

14. Green Healthy
design design
Environmental Sustainable
design design

15. Solutions and scenarios
• Government program for developing country
side (subsidies, loans etc) plus investment.
• Introduction of strict ecological control on
building process and construction wastes
utilization.
• Encouragement of usage clean materials for
construction.
• Mixed-use of community planning for support of
continuous pedestrian linkages among the
residential, institutional, commercial, and
recreational places that support our daily lives.

16. Conclusion
Measures taken
• Starting from the 2005 new law about
Ecosystem of Ukraine had come into effect.
• Government program of improving national
ecological network 2006-2015 is already
introduced.
• In September 2006 Open meeting of business,
NGO and government concerning ecology and
sustainable development was held.

17. Conclusion
Few examples
• Company “Konty-stroy-Ukraine” is going to build
a plant for utilization of construction wastes on
Kiev outskirts.
• Many investment projects for building
ecologically safe and efficient houses are
developed. They don’t have proper financing
though…
• New wasteless technology was introduced on
Zaporozhsky ferroalloy factory.