Sustainable Building Conference, Tokio, September 2005
Improving the answers and solutions presented in each project requires a constant investment in Know-how, Perspectives, Ideas, Solutions, Strategies and Correct Decisions. Creating an adequate network of know-how and being interconnected in a Network which strives to improve in sustainable solutions, guarantees a spectacular progress in the company services and in adopting the correct solutions.
At SAVENER we make a constant effort to establish an adequate work model in “Networking” so that it is possible to use not only our own team’s potential but also that of other national and international teams, thus making sure that our company’s final answer is wise, more effective, and highly efficient and sustainable. At the same time, this working model helps establish research threads and the development of new solutions with international high-level teams.
Either as Partner or Technical Consultant, Savener collaborates and takes active part in numerous Seminars, Conventions, Conferences and Workshops, both nationally and Internationally.
Dr. Enrst Ulrich Von Weizszäcker
He is considered as the Father of Efficiency in the Resource Use. He is member of Bundestag Germany. He has been Director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) in Bonn, London and Paris, President of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy; he is also member of the Club of Rome, member of the German Parliament and member of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization. He is the author of the renowned book "Factor Four. Doubling Wealth - Halving Resource Use" which has been translated into more than eleven languages and which represented an authentic revolution in the understanding of the true effect that man’s activity had on our Planet.
El Debate aportó un catálogo sobre las últimas técnicas dentro de la Vanguardia de la Eficiencia en el uso de los recursos, fundamentalmente energético e hídrico. Un análisis profundo y basado en una visión más global e internacional de los efectos y consecuencias de las soluciones, pueden llevarnos a descubrir técnicas altamente eficientes y no consideradas en primera instancia y lo que es más común, ver cómo técnicas consideradas ecoeficientes no lo son y además aportan enormes
subproductos perjudiciales para el entorno en su aplicación.
La Técnica es necesaria para alcanzar altos niveles de Ecoeficiencia, pero hay que saber aplicarla y analizarla.
Mr. Jaime Lerner
This Brazilian architect, urbanist and politician has shown better than anyone the positive impact of sustainable transformation of cities. He is known for his urban work in his native city, Curitiba, of which he was three times Lord Mayor; he was also twice Governor of the State of Paraná. The implementation of Lerner’s ideas was one of the reasons for which Curitiba was considered in 2002 one of the five most modern cities in the world.
In 1975, Lerner was a United Nations Consultant for Urban Issues.
In 1990 this same organization, UNO, assigned him the Maximum Award for the Environment. In 2001 he received the World Technology Award for Transportation; and in 2002 he received the Sir Robert Matthew Award from the International Union of Architects for improving the quality of human settlements. Lerner also received in 2001, the Volvo Environment Award. In 2002 he was elected President of the International Union of Architects for a three-year term.
An analysis of the different urban, economic and social actions implemented by Lerner in Curitiba, represented the starting point of an interesting debate on the great transformations which accompany the establishment of sustainable criteria in the development of a city. As Lerner himself summarized, there are five fundamental aspects in achieving a Sustainable Development of an urban nucleus:
1. Less cars
2. Waste separation
3. Living close to working place
4. Minimum waste. Reuse
5. Multiple Use of Spaces
Lord Richard Rogers
Lord Richard Rogers is one of the foremost living architects, the recipient of the prestigious RIBA Gold Medal in 1985 and winner of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal and the 2000 Praemium Imperial Prize for Architecture. Lord Richard Rogers was awarded the Legion d'Honneur in 1986, knighted in 1991 and made a life peer in 1996. In 1995 he was the first architect ever invited to give the BBC Reith Lectures - a series entitled 'Cities for a Small Planet' and in 1998 was appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister to chair the Government's Urban Task Force.
Tadao Ando’s ideas are based on building with simple geometric forms, which can create transcendent spaces thanks to the use of light and materials. As Tadao Ando himself states "I think architecture becomes interesting when it shows this dual character: the maximum possible simplicity together with all the complexity one may give it."
