Roadmap for making municipal real estate more sustainable is ready

Source: Domestic Administration

The Sectoral Roadmap for Municipal Social Real Estate is ready. The map contains the approach for municipalities to make their social real estate more sustainable within 30 years. The starting point is to reduce CO2 emissions with 95%. In addition, all buildings must be made natural gas-free. The roadmap has been established by the board of the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG).

Many municipalities already have ambitions to make their own buildings more sustainable and are taking energy-saving measures. There are already plenty of good examples of sustainable social real estate. But to achieve the 95% CO2 reduction target, a faster pace is needed.

With the Sectoral Roadmap, municipalities can draw up a roadmap for their own municipality. In this municipal roadmap, municipalities develop their task and approach for the first 4 years. This is not optional. The experiences that municipalities gain and their results form the input for the first progress report and redevelopment of the Sectoral Roadmap in 2022.

Sectors work together

They work within the Knowledge and Innovation Platform for Sustainable Social Real Estate Expertise Center for Care, Space OK, Knowledge Center for Sports and Exercise, National Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE), VNG and RVO together. By exchanging knowledge, sharing good examples and encouraging innovations, social sectors are facilitated and supported in making their buildings more sustainable.

Trade organization Building Automation and DBCA

The trade organization for Building Automation is in discussions with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, discussing various themes where forces can be joined. Also the DBCA (Dutch Building & Commissioning Association) is involved in these conversations.

The Dutch Building Commissioning Association (DBCxA) has been a recognized non-profit organization since 2013. The DBCxA has the structure of a platform and is an "outwardly" oriented organization that promotes the acceptance and application of commissioning as an efficient method for performance assurance of buildings and homes in the Netherlands. The trade organization Gebouw Automatisering is a co-initiator of the DBCA and is represented on the board.