Nordic Building Code – Symposium on legislation in the Nordic Countries

Nordic Building Code; Past, Present, Future

Research Symposium
Wednesday 10. October 10.00 -1700
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO)

The aim of the research symposium is to establish a space for conversation and networking for researchers working in the field and to give an overview of ongoing research on building regulation and close related issues, such as guidance and knowledge production connected to building regulation. What are the questions asked? What are the necessary questions to be asked?

Symposium

The aim of the symposium is to establish a space for conversation and networking for researchers working in the field and to give an overview of ongoing research on building regulation and close related issues, such as guidance and knowledge production connected to building regulation. What are the questions asked? What are the necessary questions to be asked?

The symposium in October 2018 will be followed up by a larger conference on building code in spring 2019 that will focus on the Nordic perspective regarding the development of the building code.

Abstract:

In 1978 the Nordic Committé for Building Regulation (Nordiska kommittén för byggbestämmelser, NKB) presented a common framework for the Nordic Countries, which is based on a performance-based regulation. The transition from prescriptive based regulation towards performance-based regulation is interesting from a critical architectural history and theoretical perspective and constitutes a challenging and ongoing process that engages also various research communities. It also raises the question what the next step of development for the code might be. This symposium constitutes the first Nordic gathering of researchers focusing on architecture and nordic regulation from both a critical and operative perspective.

Challenges of performance-based regulation

A critical view of aims, effects and design of performance-based regulation.
The (ongoing) transition from prescriptive-based to performance-based regulation:

History of regulation & development (aims and effects)
Analysing the aims and outcomes of Nordic performance-based regulation
(Interaction with and influence on architectural design and societal goals)
Challenges of performance-based regulation in order to reach the original aims (of freedom in solutions and design, a base for innovation etc, how can a performance-based regulation be formulated?)

Guidance, dissemination and knowledge production related to regulation

The role of visualization of performance-based regulation
Digitalization as phenomenon impacting the design of regulation
Legislation, guidance and dissemination to avoid uniformity and normalization

Program

Wednesday 10. October 10.00 -17.00

Time	Name	Theme
10.00	Tim Anstey & Michael Hensel	Introduction
10.10	Emma Street	Regulating the built environment: a (brief) history
10.35	Anders Kirkhus	Non-functional aspects of performance-based legislation
11.00	Short break
11.10	Erik Sigge	The rational era – 60s-70s initiating performance demands
11.35	Helena Mattson	Towards Performance Based Regulation: Building Codes as a Site of Organizing Life
12.00	Lunch Exhibition in the AHO hall:	Byggforskserien; Past, Present, Future
13.00	Marja Lundgren	Performance demands in building codes conditioning architecture, exemplified through energy and daylight
13.25	Rob Marsh	Exploring the paradox of Nordic passive solar architecture: on the negative consequences of changing regulative paradigms and architectural responses from 1970 to 2020
13.50	Short break
14.00	Jørgen Hallås Skatland	Society’s blueprints − A study of the Norwegian building code’s modal descriptions of a building
14.20	Bjørnar Nørstebø	A new role for visualization in knowledge dissemination?
14.35	Håvard Haukland	Spacemaker – transforming the “blank sheet” industry with artificial intelligence
14.55	Short break
15.00	Tim Anstey & Michael Hensel	Podium discussion
16.00	END