Our Statements

OUR STATEMENTS

Shravan Joshi

Chair of the City of London Planning and Transportation Committee

"We have over 600 heritage buildings in the City of London itself – and we need to make them work alongside the rest of the ecosystem to ensure that we have a good balance of new developments, heritage assets, and retrofit assets all working in harmony."

Carlos Moreno

Senior University Professor at Paris IAE – Panthéon Sorbonne University

"The 15-minute city follows this rule. It's a simple matter of seizing the opportunity provided by the existing urban fabric, understanding its dysfunctions, to transform it and make it viable."

Jens Böhnlein

Head of Asset Management and Sustainability at Commerz Real

“My biggest wish would be to start thinking in ecosystems and lifecycles and not just from start to finish.”

Ruth Schagemann

ACE President

“High-rises can be introduced as an element, but before doing that we need to consider repurposing existing building stock that is not currently being used.”

Karsten Nielsen

Director of the Technical & Environmental Administration of the City of Copenhagen

"Young people want to live centrally – and have two main priorities: ‘Can I afford it?’ and ‘Is there an outside area I can use?’ Other aspects such as architecture are way down the list."

Estelle Monod

Senior Vice President, Building Segments and Digital Energy Strategy

“We are almost at a tipping point in the industry where because of all the electrical, all the digital, because of the marrying of all the different systems into delivering a holistic view of buildings as assets, this is forcing end users, design firms, and technology providers to adjust and work hand in hand.”

Xavier Troussard

Head of the New European Bauhaus Unit at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission

“We have the support of European citizens to make the Green Deal a transformation that improves our lives by creating better spaces and ways of living. To achieve this, we should overcome the traditional silos of society and work together towards a better, shared future.”

Dr. Orna Rosenfeld

Global Advisor on Housing and Urban Affairs

“The European Union is united in diversity, which implies unity without uniformity and diversity without fragmentation. We Europeans do not strive to be the same, and that is our value and our uniqueness.”