ECONOMY

The practice of the Hellenic Climate House analyzes the habits and needs of each local community or region. Then, through an educational seminar that is done exclusively to the contractors of each project, information and analysis of the desired goal is made. At the same time, the problems created by the maintenance of old habits of use or application techniques are reported and pointed out.

In the field of workshops in particular, a mandatory presentation is made on the occasion of the application of new innovative materials, safety measures and the operation of the construction site. This short pre-assignment seminar provides fertile ground for participants' awareness, acts as a multiplier of knowledge and explains the need and reason why building techniques are being adapted.

The same goes for designers or project owners, so the 100 people involved on average in a medium construction can transfer their experience to at least three people in their inner circle, tripling the amount of information. In this way, awareness is passed indirectly through word of mouth to the community and is conveyed through a more secure framework of trust, outside of official or remote bodies, regulations, mandates or decisions that often act as a deterrent.

The implementation of this protocol in each project, has a direct impact on local communities, significantly affecting the residents of each area. In short, from the moment that each local contractor attends the short and necessary informative presentation as a condition for undertaking a project, the empathy is built slowly and steadily around issues that until now were negligible or unfortunately in the opposite direction. Innovation cannot be imposed, especially in an reality that follows the tactic: "we have always done so". The success of a project is more in its path and for the right result it is necessary to devote hours of training, information and awareness of all stakeholders to understand and believe that they are not just participating in a routine construction work but that they contribute to trying to leave them behind. something better than what they found, to make a world better!

For the successful completion of a sustainable building of almost zero consumption, it is necessary to follow a specific design that combines the choice of materials and the appropriate way of their application. In the last 100 years of construction activity, the wasteful buildings in which we all grew up have created wasteful people and wasteful habits without them being perceived. An illustrative example is that few realize the fact that in Attica cars are washed with drinking water, at a time when in other parts of the world this would sound like a science fiction scenario.

So, the biggest and most important need to achieve sustainability in Greece and in the Mediterranean in general is to change the way we are used to perceiving our environment (what surrounds us) and to recognize the wealth that this particular geographical location generously offers us. A green building is a way of life and with its construction another culture and social approach is created that starts from the construction industry. New generation projects, "green" projects cannot be implemented with old techniques, but neither can they be used efficiently by their users without proper information and requires targeted training and awareness of all involved. Especially in today's conditions where the human resources are missing from the Greek market and at the same time the high quality of infrastructure is required, education through construction becomes the link between economy, environment and society with the ultimate goal of sustainable development. The possibility given for the effect of the specific practice exceeds the limits of the company's possibilities as it can be easily appropriated and applied by respective technical companies, engineers, private or public bodies with the aim of its development and transmission.