Club D2C (En)

Club D2C: The sustainable development club for built environments

Plan :

1 – Objectives of the Club D2C

2 – Activities assumed by the Club D2C

3 – The “D2C Process”

4 – Tools for the « D2C Process »

5 – Thematic networks

6 – Actual organizational actions and experimentation

1 – Objectives of the Club D2C:

• Political objective: with the concerned actors, to develop the “D2C Process”, the process to best orient and organize sustainable development of the built environments of territories and to resolve problems linked to these built environments.

• Strategic objective: to help develop a movement applying the “D2C Process”, in order to better manage activities concerning sustainable development of the built environments of territories.

• Tactical objective: to organize the D2C Club as a network in order to help its members particularly, and more generally all actors in their efforts to improve their operational practice, through:

- Training on the “D2C Process”.

- Help in applying the “D2C Process”.

- Pursuing the development of the “D2C Process” and its promotion, by identifying best practices of operations around sustainable development of the built environments of territories.

- Distinguishing in all the different types of exemplary actions and actors of the movement for sustainable development of the built environments of territories.

2 – Activities assumed by the Club D2C:

The activities are regrouped in 3 poles:

- Research department: 1) “D2C Process” theme (Definitions of the D2C Process, tools for supporting the D2C Process), 2) Reflections and actions D2C’s thematic networks have given impulse to.

- Implementation department.

- Communication department: 1) Production of communication activities by the Club D2C, 2) Club D2C’s participation in communication actions, 3) Club D2C’s Internet site.

3 – The “D2C Process”:

• There are six different types of activities which the D2C Process can organize: 1) Construction operations, 2) Adaptation operations, 3) Facility management activities, 4) Land-use planning projects, 5) Rehabilitation projects, 6) Activities linked to the management of territorial built environments.

• The types of entities concerned by the latter activities are obviously very numerous. There are four kinds of entities:

- Built living environments of territories taken as a whole, in order that the territories will become satisfactory in economic, societal and environmental terms, and then we shall call « sustainable built living environments ».

- Buildings, in order that they will become (1) a contribution to the implementation of sustainable development policies applied to built living environments on their territory of location or (2) an easiness for the implementation of later sustainable development policies, and then we shall call « sustainable buildings”.

- Buildings that are such we cannot, for various reasons, consider they will become sustainable buildings, but we can consider they will possibly become at least satisfactory in terms of energy or environment.

- Components of the built living environment – not buildings and components that might be concerned by small sets or separately – in order they will become (1) a contribution to the implementation of sustainable development policies applied to built living environments to which they belong or (2) an easiness for the implementation of later sustainable development policies, and then we shall call « sustainable territorial components, outside buildings”.

• For a given group of activities types applied on a given number of entities, while integrating a certain quality level, the D2C Process consists, on the one hand, in defining a quality objective for all these activities, and on the other hand, in defining and utilizing a management system for these activities. Both of the objective and the management system are adapted to all the entities on which the activities are run. Hence an optimal quality is obtained in the particular context of these activities taken together.

• Following quality objectives definitions are established: 1) the definition (formal, prescriptive, explicit) of the environmental quality of buildings for building construction or rehabilitation operations; 2) the formal definition and the structure of the prescriptive definition of buildings’ environmental quality, for facility management activities; 3) the definition (formal, prescriptive) of the quality of sustainable development of the territorial built environment for land-use or built environment rehabilitation projects.

• Following management systems definitions are established: generic definitions for the management systems of the six types of activities taken into account by the D2C Process. In the case of applications on territorial built environments, such a system would be called “decision and organizational system”.

• The D2C Process can be used under contractual conditions, with the D2C Club managing.

• Comments:

- A building’s environmental quality is one aspect of the technical quality of buildings, while the quality of sustainable development of the territorial built environment has three dimensions: economic, social, and environmental. Hence, sustainable development quality is in no way a generalization of “environmental quality”.

- By “sustainable development”, we understand “supportable development”, that is, “a hoped-for development that one can ensure”.

- By “sustainable territory” we mean a territory that has a sustainable development policy applied on its built environment. Also, we prefer to talk about a “sustainable development of the built environment of a territory”.

4 – Tools for the “D2C Process”:

• The efforts done since 2003 have allowed the setting up of tools – although sometimes general or experimental – that correspond to the D2C Process:

- Tools for simplified presentation of activities.

- Documents and basic work tools for an international system of territorial sustainable development. The engineering and labelling firm “S.BE.i-France” (Sustainable Built Environment Institute – France) has been created in early 2009, in order to get involved in the managing activities related to territorial sustainable development.

- Training tools.

• Evidently, if some operators prefer to obtain existing certifications (French or others), the “D2C Process” will allow them to work in the best possible conditions from a technico-economic perspective.

5 – Thematic networks:

• Eleven thematic networks have been created – some are active, and others are hibernating.

• The thematic network “RT01 – Training” (created on 12-11-02) is advancing without much recognition: raising awareness using the “Charter for the synergistic setting up of continuing education with on-site activities for sustainable territories and buildings”, produced on June 5th, 2008, accompanied by the simultaneous activation of the “TAS-STB – Training and actions in synergy, for sustainable territories and buildings” network.

• The thematic network “RT06 – Apartment buildings” (creation date: May 9th, 2007) is on hold for tactical reasons.

• The thematic network “RT07 – Individual residence” (creation date: December 1st, 2005) is being tentatively reactivated after two institutions decided to forgo integrating such a type of habitat within the perspective of sustainable development.

• All the others are proposed for developing the international system “Territorial Sustainable Development Control (TSDC)”:

- “RT02 – International” (creation date: November 12, 2002)

- “RT03 – Territories” (creation date: September 1, 2003)

- “RT04 – Buildings” (creation date: March 28, 2005)

- “RT05 – Condominium” (creation date: May 9, 2007)

- “RT08 – Technique” (creation date: October 4, 2004)

- “RT09 – Economy” (creation date: September 8, 2005)

- “RT10 – Patrimony” (creation date: July 8, 2008)

- “RT11 – Prospective” (creation date: January 8, 2009).

6 – Actual organization actions and experimentation:

Presently, there are four of these:

- Action “A01 – Joining campaigns”, launched on April 22, 2002.

- Action “A05 – D2C Observatory”, launched on December 13, 2004.

- Action “A10 – TSDC Movement Impulse Group”, launched on January 8, 2009.

- Action “A11 – TSDC Movement Synergy Group”, launched on January 8, 2009.

–> To download the document « Club D2C, “Presentation document”, 30-09-10 »: < 100930-D2C-DdP10-a >.