SBC Trust Fund Project: Sustainable Construction Policy in the Aburrá Valley, Colombia

Objectives

By implementing the sustainable construction policy issued in 2015 the aim of the project is to foster the paradigm shift towards an eco-efficient, socially inclusive and economically viable urban development in the Aburrá Valley and its adjacent regions by implementing strategies relevant to the local needs, constraints and opportunities, while keeping view on global priorities. Likewise, it is intended that conceptual, methodological and legal policy framework serve as reference to issue the national policy as well as to formulate similar policies in other metropolitan regions of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Activities

As collected through the One Planet Reporting

No activities have yet been reported under this initiative

Impact and Results

The plans for monitoring the progress and outreach are convincing and the planned budget is cost efficient. The approach seems well replicable in other urbanizing metropolitan areas in the LAC region and beyond.

Objective 1 Involve key actors in the implementation of the policy
Goal: No quantitative goal Quantitative results: 64 institutions with which socialization meetings have been held. 16 of them are public institutions and 48 are private companies.

Objective 2 Training of sector professionals in the use of metropolitan sustainable construction guides
Goal: One hundred and fifty (150) professionals
Quantitative results: One hundred sixty-five (165) professionals

Objective 3 Incorporate metropolitan sustainable construction guidelines into demonstration projects
Goal: Three (3) projects
Quantitative results: Five (5) advised construction projects. Three housing projects of priority interest, an institutional project and a commercial project


Objective 4 Analyze the economic implications of the application of the Metropolitan Sustainable Construction Guidelines
Goal: An analysis document
Quantitative results: Document prepared, in the process of layout for publication


Counterpart CAMACOL Antioquia
Objective: Calculate the Emissions of Greenhouse Gases - GHG of the construction activity in the Aburrá Valley
Goal: Study of GHG emissions
Quantitative results: Study carried out, socialized and delivered

Next steps and how to get involved

The main perspective left by this first phase is the creation of an Alliance for sustainable construction as the mechanism through which the voluntary participation instruments of the policy can continue to operate. This would be the platform for the articulation between the private sector, public institutions, the academic community and civil society under the principles of concertation, co-responsibility and transversality, whose purpose is the effective and permanent incorporation of sustainability criteria to the urban development of the Aburrá Valley