The concept of sustainability, discussed at the fifth edition of EURO-Constructii

The Romanian construction industry exceeded in 2015 the problems caused by the economic downturn, being already placed on a clear upward trend. In the first half of the current year, the analyzed sector registered again a sustained growth, even if the comparison base remains weak and there are certain structural risks such as the geo-political ones or related to finance, in the context of an election year. To support the current development in the short, medium and long term, the attention of governors, the political class and professionals of the field should be directed towards developing a national strategy encompassing measures - yet nonexistent - to promote the sustainable buildings, passive, active or NZEB houses - new or rehabilitated – and to ensure energy savings in line with EPBD requirements. These were just some of the findings highlighted in the International Conference on Sustainable Construction and Energy Efficiency EURO-Constructii, whose works - at the fifth edition - took place in Bucharest in Atlas Hall of Radisson Blu Hotel, on 24 in May 2016, alongside the International Conference on Joinery and Façades Systems EURO-Fereastra, an already traditional event, which is at the eighth edition. At both conferences, speakers with a high level of competence, such as, among others, President of the Order of Architects in Romania, arch. Serban Ţigănaş, chief economist of BRD Groupe Société Générale, Florian Libocor, president of the Association of Producers of Building Materials in Romania - APMCR, Claudiu Georgescu, the Association of Producers and Importers of Mineral Wool in Romania - APIVMR, Emilian Grigore, along with Monica Ardeleanu, CEO of the Romania Green Building Council – RoGBC, arch. Dragos Arnăutu, representative of the Passivhaus Institut (PHI) Darmstadt – Germany, Gabriel Biris , a charter member of Biris Goran SPARL and state secretary in the Ministry of Finance, together with Dennis Rauen, Managing Director of Interconnection Consulting Group - Austria and Serban Danciu, the Buildings Performance Institute Europe - Belgium, highlighted the main aspects of economic and investment which exert a strong impact on the development of the construction sector in our country.