Austrian Sustainable Building Policy Lessons for Turkey

Abstract

Abstract-This paper explores the progress of sustainable building in Austria and its applicability for Turkey. First it explains the need for sustainability and the transition phase to sustainable building practices in Austria from the 1970s, exploring how these accelerated environmental performance. The paper describes Austria´s policy, actors and initiatives with important milestones and its success as a benchmark country in terms of approaches to sustainable building. Secondly it discusses the state of art in Turkey and the translation of a sustainable Austrian building development model for Turkey. At the end, the paper demonstrates lessons from Austria´s sustainable building policy and describes guidelines to further develop the sustainable building sector in Turkey.Index Terms-Sustainable building, Austria, sustainable development, energy efficient building.

Sustainable housing: Analysis of energy performance potential in Turkey with translation of building standards of Austria

“…Since buildings with the same geometry and building materials may exhibit different energy performances depending on the climate in the different geographical regions, the GEQ programme, which is limited to only Austrian climate data, could not be for the selected case in Konya. Therefore, the energy performance calculations were conducted using the PHPP 9.6 tool developed by the Passive House Institute, which allows the editing of the climate data for Konya [44].…”