Requirements for Sustainable Buildings in the Tropics
The Requirements for Sustainable Buildings in the Tropics (Span. RESET) is a standard developed in Costa Rica by the Institute of Tropical Architecture (Span. IAT), in order to extend the sustainability requirements to a wide range of buildings. The Requirements for Sustainable Buildings in the Tropics prioritizes the design capacity and sustainability potential of the architecture and were elaborated by the IAT with the intention of establishing it as a national standard through national institutions. This standard, developed by civil society and made available to the national authorities, is part of the Costa Rican environmental vocation, as it allows it to incorporate in its policies and strategies the construction sector and the city in order to reduce its environmental impact. According to its creators, this standard was developed to be within the reach of the majority, including the large construction companies.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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