Sustainable construction in Latvia – opportunities and challenges
2016
Gusta, S., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia)
Construction industry has a significant and substantial role in Latvian economy. Construction volume and the number of employed in the sector have increased, but the fierce competition in the industry is not contributing to the profit growth of the enterprises in this sector. In the times of climate changes and globalization researches involving security of long-term environment, saving of the resources, as well as preservation of the identity and singularity of places are activating. Long–term building involves complex solutions and practice that increase the efficiency of houses, diminish the consumption of the energy, water and other natural resources, their building and management processes material input per unit, power-intensity and negative impact on the people health and environment. Long-term building ideas developed in other countries known as sustainable building are becoming more popular also in Latvia. That is stimulated with the help of many conditions: economic (necessity of saving resources and energy), social (market – dictated by the consumers, high demands for the quality and accommodations), as well as activation of the environmental issues (talking responsibility for diminishing of the climate changes and pollution). In this paper sustainable building and management basic principles are inspected. The article provides analysis of the situation in the construction sector in Latvia from the point of sustainability, discusses the challenges, opportunities and threats to sustainable development of construction.
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