Austria
Good Practice Examples from Austria:
Braunau
Keywords: Austria,public sector,office equipment,househould appliances,green electricity,building components,lighting,vehicles
Summary: The city of Braunau is implementing an environmental management system since the year 2000. This means that environmental issues are included in all decisions and activities of the public administration. As part of this management system, environmental criteria were introduced in the procurement process.
Energiewerkstatt
Keywords: Austria,enterprise,building components
Summary: The company is an engineering company specialised in planning wind farms but provides also services in consulting (energy efficiency, renewable energy sources).
Evangelistic Church
Keywords: Austria,enterprise,green electricity,building components
Summary: A working group of people responsible for environmental issues within the Prostestant Church is dealing with procurement and other issues aiming at including environmental aspects in daily matters of the Church.
LAND OBERÖSTERREICH
Keywords: Austria,public sector,office equipment,househould appliances,building components,lighting
Summary: Public procurement of the buildings owned and managed by the administration of Upper Austria;
there is a special division within the administration (“Abt. Gebäude- & Beschaffungsmanagement”) which is responsible for the procurement in all buildings owned by the public administration
Magistrate Linz
Keywords: Austria,public sector,office equipment,househould appliances,lighting
Summary: Although normally public administration follows the “best value” method when tendering products and appliances, the public administration of the city of Linz tries to include energy efficiency criteria in the procurement procedures.
Municipality Freistadt
Keywords: Austria,enterprise,househould appliances,green electricity,building components
Summary: The city of Freistadt was one of the first Upper Austrian municipality to implement a Third Party Financing (TPF) project. The successful implementation of the project (and the positive reputation gained by this) motivated the municipality to engage in a number of energy projects since then and provides also the basis for energy efficient procurement.
O.Ö. Energiesparverband (ESV)
Keywords: Austria,public sector,building components
Summary: Energy criteria, which were developed by ESV, such as provisions against summer overheating, are included in the architectural tendering of larger public buildings (mainly public buildings, kindergarten, schools or administration buildings), frequently ESV is member of the project jury (selection committee).
O.Ö. LAVU AG – O.Ö. Landesabfallverwertungsunternehmen
Keywords: Austria,enterprise,office equipment,lighting,vehicles
Summary: The headquarter of the O.Ö. LAVU located in Wels, Upper Austria, is responsible for the waste management of Upper Austria (more than 180 waste collection centres all over the region of Upper Austria).
The company has implemented the environment management system according to EN ISO 14001 and is also a partner of the climate alliance. Procurement is done according to the high environmental awareness of the company.
Stadt Wels
Keywords: Austria,public sector,househould appliances,lighting
Summary: There is a central division within the public administration of the city of Wels which is responsible for the overall procurement except IT and lighting. Procurement of lighting devices is done by the department responsible for building engineering.
Unterweitersdorf
Keywords: Austria,public sector,building components,lighting
Summary: In the (small) municipality of Unterweitersdorf, the main investment is made in building components (new buildings, retrofitting) and in street lighting, which is based on energy efficiency criteria.
