Quality building renovations for everyone!
In a multi-stakeholder and challenging field of domestic practice - low client expectations, omission of the preparatory design phase, lack of resources, subsidy practices - there is little scope for sustainable and climate-friendly renovation. To help you out, Energiaklub has published a new material on "Green Public Procurement in the Construction Industry" and a guide on similar topics.
"The public sector has a significant impact on influencing sustainable practices in the construction industry and improving environmental quality through public procurement, given that the construction sector is responsible for around 12% of GHG emissions related to public procurement and that public procurement in the EU accounts for 14% of GDP. Public sector actors can leverage this significant purchasing power to obtain the best value for money goods and services for society, while actively fighting climate change," - it can be read with references.
However, in Hungary, green criteria have been applied in only 10-15% of national procedures in the last 5 years. Nevertheless, looking further abroad, there is a plethora of good practices, examples, guidelines and tools available, which we have compiled into a short factsheet and guide (check it out at the end of this article) to help Hungarian municipalities and other contracting authorities to steer the construction market towards sustainability by greening public procurement.
We encourage contracting authorities to use green evaluation criteria up to a 10-15% weighting - and we are working to raise this level, as it is not uncommon for quality and sustainability criteria to dominate the evaluation of tenders in 20-40% or even 85% of tenders abroad.
