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U. Pont:
"A retrospective on research driven innovation toward more sustainable building stock";
Talk: Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies CHNT26, Wien / Rathaus; 2021-11-02 - 2021-11-04; in: "Proceedings for CHNT26", ICOMOS Austria (ed.); Eigenverlag ICOMOS, (2021).

This article is intended as a small retrospective onto research in and on the built environment and the role of the built heritage in view of the challenges of today. Needless to say, such an article is of rather general nature and will not be able to save the world, however, the author is on the one hand interested in formulating some lateral thoughts onto the built environment and the environmental discussion, thus triggering discussions based on some general references and some specific pro-jects on the other side. In the first section, the terminology of sustainability, resilience, and some other terms as well as their relationship with the built environment is discussed. Moreover, some characteristics of the evaluation of the built environment in view of recent challenges of mankind are mentioned. Subsequently, some recent projects the author gains knowledge about and/or has been involved into are discussed and their potential impact toward a better "performance" of the built environment is critically assessed. Finally the author tries to conclude with some final thoughts.

no german abstract:
This article is intended as a small retrospective onto research in and on the built environment and the role of the built heritage in view of the challenges of today. Needless to say, such an article is of rather general nature and will not be able to save the world, however, the author is on the one hand interested in formulating some lateral thoughts onto the built environment and the environmental discussion, thus triggering discussions based on some general references and some specific pro-jects on the other side. In the first section, the terminology of sustainability, resilience, and some other terms as well as their relationship with the built environment is discussed. Moreover, some characteristics of the evaluation of the built environment in view of recent challenges of mankind are mentioned. Subsequently, some recent projects the author gains knowledge about and/or has been involved into are discussed and their potential impact toward a better "performance" of the built environment is critically assessed. Finally the author tries to conclude with some final thoughts.

Research-driven Innovation, Sustainability, Resilience, built environment, How to cope with an unsure Future