UP-RES
Urban Planners with Renewable Energy Skills
At present, urban areas tend to be scattered rather than centralized, which means higher energy consumption and emissions. Therefore, urban planners shall be educated to relations of spatial plans to energy and emissions and become aware of the consequences of their spatial plans to energy and emissions.
Planning guidelines shall also include energy as the major planning parameter. Renewable energy requires a new way of thinking in urban and spatial planning that does not exist yet.
UP-RES focus
- Renewable Energy Directive: to promote RES in heating, cooling and powering of communities at high energy efficiency.
- EU coverage: Experience from 5 training pilots to be extended to European level through European level associations and meetings.
UP-RES content
- Review planning guidelines in a number of cities in EU;
- Review education programs of urban planners in universities in EU;
- Record and present positive examples of urban planning as models of good approach;
- Design and implement pilots training courses of RES to urban planners in Finland, Germany, Hungary, Spain and UK;
- Draft recommendations for urban planning that take RES and its emission relations into account;
- Prepare a plan for EU-certification of energy skilled urban planners.
UP-RES outputs
- 5 countries in different parts of Europe with pilot training programs and courses to urban and regional planners;
- 200 planning schools and institutes in EU as members of AESOP informed and activated;
- 1000 heating and cooling utilities in 32 countries informed and activated through Euroheat&Power and AGFW;
- 20 European research institutes and universities informed;
- 20 European associations of urban planners and architects informed;
- 400 regional and urban planning organizations in Europe informed;
- Training material summary issued in 10 EU languages.
Partnership
Aalto University (FI) (coordinator)
District Heating Association – AGFW (DE)
University of Augsburg (DE)
Munich University of Technology (DE)
Building Research Establishment Ltd. – BRE (UK)
Association of Architecture and Sustainability in Catalonia – SaAS (ES)
University of Debrecen (HU)
Duration
September 1, 2010 – February 28, 2013
More information
Arto Nuorkivi
Tel. +358 41 456 8893
Email: firstname.lastname [a] aalto.fi
Anna-Maija Ahonen
Tel. +358 50 307 4934
Email: firstname.lastname [a] aalto.fi
