The attitude towards land use and urban planning has been affected by profound changes in recent years, which has changed reading and the means of intervention.
The main changes have affected the needs of living, the policies, and subsequent actions in the field.
Being involved in the progresing and inevitable climate change, the need to retain sites of preservation and the imployment of energy modeling for urban and renewable architecture, is significant. The difference in design from historical periods till today has involved new standards that take into account the parameters for the improvement of environmental qualities and overall energy use. These design approaches have consistently been taking place at the urban and building scale. The current styles of design take into account the factors of the renovated qualities of life, the social participation, the air quality, mobility, quality of architecture and its artifacts, the presence of green spaces, the use of renewable energy, water consumption, waste treatment, etc. These factors are integrated into a unified system, in order to achieve maximum energy savings, the maximum reduction of CO2 emissions, comfort in the liveability of existing fabric, new urban settlements and individual buildings.
The new issues that have emerged are quality and attention to the environment and energy savings. The word “sustainability” is recognized with the system present at RÉDAIS©. It is not just a new way of understanding, but it is also a new way to design buildings, neighborhoods, and entire cities. It is a new way of thinking with new scales of values. This change, which has already began but needs a lot of progression, is radical. RÉDAIS is just part of this change which is able to promote, research, and implement sustainable actions.
RÉDAIS© performs with its integration in sustainability, and carries out work that is always based on the principle of development, which is not only economic, but also environmental and social. This has the ability to touch various aspects of everyday citizens.
“We think that the urban, today, is land where it is necessary to review the parameters that have always governed its applications.”
In addition to environmental sustainability, there is the implementation of trying to verify the feasibility and identify the social applications.
Our activities and operations are governed by the system of RÉDAIS, which supports the processes and interactions by providing consolidated unions of parties and variables to consider.
The basis of the system, at RÉDAIS, includes processes, interactions, experiences, memories, functions, feelings, use/users/shared, and life expectancy.
The LCA (Analysis Cycle Analysis) is a library of information, provided by a user, to guide a decision about the products being used. This is so that only the best outcome is achieved (meet the target).