This project is based on the findings and results and the already inspired community of the Interreg Va project Healthy Building Network (HBN). In a LoI (letter of Intent), many municipalities, companies and institutions have committed to work together to reach the goal of 100 healthy buildings by 2030. The potential of healthy building is seen and recognised as a future market. The topics of health and a healthy living and working environment have become increasingly important (partly due to the Corona pandemic). Through scientific research and the sharing of the generated knowledge within the Euregio, more and more companies from the construction sector in the region can be inspired to, on the one hand, build and renovate healthily and, on the other hand, orient their economic activities innovatively and sustainably towards the future. This second project phase should achieve the following goals:
- -30 initiatives focus on one or more factors of a healthy building that are in the design, procurement, construction or use phase and measure and communicate this in EuRegion [ES1].
- -Scientific evidence:
- Working from home
- Healthy school buildings
- Healthy Buildings and the War for Talent
- Establish guidelines for Healthy Buildings (see index) and implement concrete knowledge on healthy building*
- Promoting innovation and the development of innovative products and technologies, especially in SMEs
- Positioning the Euroregion as a competence region in the field of Healthy Building
Through the further development of knowledge, further concretisation and support in the practical implementation of this knowledge, the foundations will be laid for positioning the Euroregion and the Dutch-German border region as a competence region for healthy buildings.
*We will not develop our own certification. But we will translate the scientific research of HBM, HBN and others into practical, easy-to-use guidelines, information, tools, etc. There are no free and usable guidelines for healthy buildings. Well certification has been developed in recent years, but this requires additional costs and is very extensive. It is also not 100% ready. We want to use this information, but make tools etc. that are free and can be used by anyone to make healthy buildings. For the Well certification you need an external expert, we want to make guidelines etc. that can be used by people in the built environment.
