CESBA Sprint Workshop

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What is CESBA?

CESBA is the process towards new and harmonized building and neighborhood standards in Europe. The CESBA process has been started 3 years ago as a non-profit, bottom up process by stakeholders closely linked to the public sector. Meanwhile it got attention from many organizations, too from European Commission – DG Environment.

CESBA discuss the aspects of core European indicators to measure and assess the sustainability of a building or neighborhood. All aspects along the building cycle, from planning to construction, from tendering to monitoring are challenged. Further it integrates the certification processes, the needs for training and communication. Because incremental sustainability may add construction complexity, all stakeholders along the value chain —including builders, administrations and users — need tools to evaluate both environmental and construction complexity.

The aims of the CESBA Sprint-Workshop

• the strengthening of the bottom up process from experts and institutions
• the coordination of the various activities and networking while learning from each other.

Who shall participate?

• People who want to broaden their horizons and be at the pulse of time.
• People who like to interact and network, those are creative and want to discuss ideas for the future with colleagues from other Nations.
• People who want to design the future in the building sector local, regional or transnational.

What is to be expected?

The participants can expect a comprehensive development of quality standards for future buildings and neighborhoods. A concrete perspective for action and project ideas for further cooperation will be created. The personal network among other experts will be strengthened. All together will be a strong impetus for the further development of common european sustainable building assessment. Further it shall be exciting days in a creative environment in the mountains of Vorarlberg.

Session Description and Structure

The Sprint Method

The sprint method is used especially for innovation and development processes. The project helps to build efficient task forces with the participation of users, developers and decision makers working together in a strict and efficient manner. The goal is to get useful and approved results in a very short time. The method makes it possible that the developers and users are working shoulder on shoulder for a defined amount of days. In addition, during the common working days on a common place the participants are going to build a community, a more and more common understanding for the needs and the methods which are required from the target groups.

6 Thematic Sessions

6 sessions, each focusing on the special topics, but linked to each other guide the participants through the CESBA Sprint Workshop. All sessions have a moderator and a co-moderator who are experts in their fields. The group will stick together for one and half days, than they may change. A team of overall moderators ensure a fruitful working atmosphere and useful results of the workshop.

Individual Working Locations

Each session team decides themselves where and how they create results on their topic. E.g. it is up to the team if they use the sauna or go for a walk to the nearby lake or go up the mountain towards the rocks. They will present their meanwhile results in short in the plenary and receive a new task from the overall moderators.
All participants choose the session group during the first lunch. There are neither special speeches nor any listener – all are co-workers for CESBA while learning by the exchange with other experts. The whole process will be documented. Documents will be uploaded on the wiki-site wiki.CESBA.eu

3 Days in the Mountains

Staying away from the office for 3 days offers the possibility to focus on a certain topic and establish a strong relationship with other experts. Still to stay in touch with the home office, internet connection is offered.