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Environmental Profile Process
The Municipality of Tilburg, one of the REVIT Partners,
has developed three different tools that integrate
environmental themes into spatial plans. These are:
Introduction
The Environmental Profile Process; the sustainable
building tool [Gemeentelijke Praktijk Richtlijn - (GPR)];
and the Industrial Estate Atlas. This report describes
the key aspects of the Environmental Profile Process.
This method complements the REVIT Sustainability Evaluation Process
since it proposes a methodology for agreeing and deciding the weighting of
sustainable development issues of a proposed development.
The way in which this is done is that the Municipality of Tilburg draws up an
appropriate environmental profile per project to ensure that these are
integrated into the overall environmental spatial development planning and
building strategies for the region. This methodology ensures that all
relevant stakeholders are engaged in redevelopment proposals and that
ambitions for improved sustainable development are constantly addressed.
In this respect, Tilburg takes into account the environmental
characteristics, the (future) use and the market factors for an area under
development. The appropriate environmental profile provides the parties
with the opportunities for new thinking and a framework of assessment
for the project. The following describes the motivation, positioning and
components of the environmental profile and its application in a renovation
project in Tilburg.
Environmental Profile Process
Based on article written by Mr. R.J.W. Rothengatter (RLoC, Amsterdam, www.rloc.nl)
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