37º IAHS World Congress on Housing: - Universidad de Cantabria

XXXVII <strong>IAHS</strong><strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> on HousingOctober 26 – 29, 2010, Santander, SpainCODE: 279SUSTAINABLE BUILDING ON THE EXAMPLE OF STATE-SUBSIDIZED RESIDENTIAL HOUSING IN CROATIAJ. Bertol-Vrcek, Lj. Biondic, and I. MurajFaculty of ArchitectureUniversity of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatiae-mail: iva.muraj@arhitekt.hrKey words: sustainable building, state-subsidized residential housing constructionAbstractIn 2001 the Law on state-subsidized residential housing took effect in the Republic of Croatia.The main goal of this Law was solving housing issues for citizens with average financialabilities, the improvement of life quality and economical development in the field of buildingconstruction. This model housing construction was conducted according to the Program forstate-subsidized residential housing. Thereafter, such housing constructions were built and arestill under construction throughout Croatia. This article deals with the information aboutcurrent realization of the subsidized housing construction in Croatia and the results of theresearch study on the example of the Spansko-Oranice housing estate in Zagreb. Housingstandards of flats and housing estates, building typology, structure, materials, building qualityand energy efficiency were analysed and are presented. This paper analyses the results of thesurvey carried out among the interviewed tenants. The aim of this paper is insight intoimplementation of this program and guidelines of contemporary housing and finding out thecorrelation between favourable market conditions, building quality, achieved housingstandard, sustainability and users satisfaction.37º <strong>IAHS</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> On Housing Science 161