The Baubook portal provides ready-made green technical specifications for small municipalities interested in sustainable construction. The portal supports the enhancement of green public procurement.

The challengeThe construction sector is crucial to EU environmental and energy policies, as buildings are responsible for approximately 40 % of the total annual EU energy consumption and generate 36% ...

Procurement of Eco-Innovative Catering – INNOCAT

The challengeThe primary goal of the INNOCAT project is to address catering sector challenges including waste generation, energy use and air pollution associated with transport, through ...

Installation of heat pumps to recover waste-heat from the City Hall servers and reuse it for space heating and domestic hot water needs

The challengeBesides economic considerations, municipalities are increasingly also paying attention to responsible purchasing and CO2 emissions in public procurement. Green and energy ...

Establishment of an environmentally preferable solution for water and wastewater treatment by a Danish military airbase

The challengeBefore purchasing Envotherm, the airbase was spending DKK 2 (0.30 Euro approximately) per litre to collect and ship the wastewater to the nearest wastewater treatment plant. The water was...

Green Pre-commercial public procurement at the Stockholm County Council

The challengeThe Stockholm County Council (SCC) first introduced pre-commercial sustainable procurement when looking for new eco-friendly ambulances in 2005. The main driver for the new ...

Desert solar farms in Morocco

The challenge:Like many countries Morocco has a low penetration of renewable energies and is reliant on imports for the majority of its energy supply – more than 95% at the beginning of this ...
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