Sustainable housing in Europe

There is considerable variation in the extent to which environmental measures are adopted in housing construction in various European countries. Whereas sustainable housing is dearly part of day-to-day building practice in some countries, in others the topic seldom receives serious attention. None of the environmental measures which are considered as such in the Netherlands are adopted frequently in all countries. On the other hand, various measures are adopted regularly everywhere. An overall comparison of 24 countries shows that Denmark is currently the country where the greatest number of sustainable housing measures are actually adopted, followed (some way behind) by countries such as Austria and Sweden