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Sustainable areas
Minergie District
The Minergie District combines new and existing buildings into an efficient, comfortable, and future-oriented living environment. Through minimal energy consumption, maximum use of renewable energy sources, and significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions, it sets high standards for climate protection. New buildings comply with Minergie standards, while existing buildings undergo energy-efficient refurbishment. Professional district management ensures optimal operation and effective monitoring. Shared infrastructure, waste heat recovery, and photovoltaic systems help optimize the energy supply. Climate-adapted outdoor spaces are created through greenery, shade-providing trees, and the “sponge city” principle. A well-designed network of pedestrian and cycling routes, sufficient bicycle parking facilities, and shared mobility services such as electric cars and cargo bikes promote climate-friendly mobility.
Link: https://www.minergie.ch/en/standards/new-buildings/minergie-site/
SNBS District
Like the SNBS District, the SNBS Building standard enables a comprehensive assessment of sustainability across the social, economic, and environmental dimensions. The standard provides developers, architects, and design professionals with considerable flexibility in meeting requirements and shaping districts, both for new developments and renovation projects. Individual buildings are only assessed to the extent that they influence the district as a whole. As a result, the analysis of individual buildings is less detailed, while greater emphasis is placed on the sustainable improvement of district-wide qualities. The grading system, in which the overall score is calculated as the arithmetic average of all individual scores, allows project teams to focus on specific priorities and, to a certain extent, compensate for lower scores in other areas.
Link: https://www.snbs-building.ch/standards/snbs-district/
2000-Watt Districts
The “2000-Watt District” label has been replaced by the SNBS District and Minergie District certifications. Historical data relating to this label have been integrated into the complete dataset.
The 2000-Watt District label recognized urban developments that could demonstrate sustainable resource management for building construction, operation, renovation, and mobility generated by the district’s activities. The certification was based on the well-known Energy City label combined with the SIA Energy Efficiency Path for Buildings. For district development projects, certification could be requested at an early planning stage and was awarded following an assessment of project objectives and a formal commitment to achieving them. Certification for a district development could be maintained until more than 50% of the building floor area intended for its planned new use had been completed and occupied. After that point, the district was required to undergo a renewed certification process to demonstrate its performance during operation. The label was based on the assessment of management systems, communication and cooperation, building construction and operation, utilities and waste management, as well as mobility.
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Sustainable areas
- Date (Creation)
- 2026-07-07T00:00:00
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-07-07T04:05:08.921694
- Identifier
- ch.bfe.energiestaedte-nachhaltige_areale
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- 2500
Spatial resolution
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- 100000
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- Q Utilities communication
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- Description
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Switzerland
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
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opendata.swiss
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- geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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- GEMET
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urban design
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energy efficiency
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ecolabel
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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Subtopic Category
- Q1 Energy
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INTERLIS 2 (XTF)
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OGC Geopackage (GPKG)
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TEXT, comma separated (CSV)
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Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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STAC API
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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ch.bfe.energiestaedte-nachhaltige_areale
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Sustainable areas"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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swisstopo REST API
swisstopo REST API
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- b48e7a02-19dc-480d-a66e-0b57f3a191a4
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Rumantsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/b48e7a02-19dc-480d-a66e-0b57f3a191a4
- Date info (Creation)
- 2026-07-07T07:19:30.388763Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2014-06-26T11:46:56Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-08-26T08:54:53.552724Z
Metadata standard
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eCH-0271
