Neo-ecological Approaches to Solving the Construction Crisis

Current conditions pose a significant challenge for the European construction industry in producing high-quality buildings that are both resource-efficient and cost-effective. Various issues overlap, such as land scarcity, disproportionately rising energy and raw material prices, extensive legal and regulatory requirements, increased environmental standards, growing consumer comfort demands, and declining real incomes of the middle class. This situation can also lead to unconventional solutions, such as the approach presented here, which focuses on analyzing and evaluating historical crisis situations, deriving strategies from them, and disseminating research findings in an accessible manner.