Opening & Strategies for Net-Zero Sports and Leisure Facilities

29th IAKS Congress 2025

Opening & Strategies for Net-Zero Sports and Leisure Facilities

Moderator: Darryl Condon, IAKS Vice President, Canada

The Davos Building Culture Alliance promotes “high-quality building culture” with practical tools, frameworks, and its eight-principle quality system, thereby fostering better living spaces worldwide. Best practice examples of sports and activity spaces from Denmark and Norway drive sustainability through interdisciplinary collaboration, knowledge sharing, innovation, and supportive policies. This is in line with the need to bridge the gap between planning intentions and actual performance. As demonstrated in Portsmouth Ravelin, approaches such as soft landings can lead to significant energy savings in leisure facilities and ensure that health-promoting spaces also meet ambitious environmental and climate goals in practice.