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5 Luxembourg, with its central position in Europe, always attracted a broad cultural diversity, creating new needs in the development of the built environment. This development acted as a real incubator for the dynamic growth in the building industry over the last decades. Luxembourgish architects, interior architects, consulting engineers, urban designers and master planners and landscape architects / landscape engineers benefitted from the vibrant environment to sharpen their ability to adapt quickly to new circumstances. Their multilingualism and their international experience acquired by studying in diverse countries equally served to build a reputation within the Greater Region that expanded through Europe. Also participating in architectural competitions and symposia proves an entrepreneurial drive can be felt among Luxembourgish architects and consulting engineers. The essence of Architects’ and Consulting Engineers’ profession embraces certain quality labels such as guaranteeing independence and ethics, defending public interest and interests of clients and users, integrity, being prepared to carry out principles of circular economy, promoting new tools like BIM and assuming responsibilities within the cradle-to-cradle issues. Luxembourg is therefore an ideal think tank for new ways of living smart technologies and innovative processes and collaborations. In order to support its members, the “Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-Conseils “ (OAI) actively promotes their produced quality for our environment. Beyond its missions as a legal body, as a professional organisation and as an institution of public interest, the OAI enhances the real dimension of its members’ work at an economic, social, artistic and cultural level, to attain a sustainable, smart and high quality living environment. Collaborations with other national authorities in the private as well as the public sector are part of the strategy to create synergies with the aim of exporting the expertise and the high quality services of our members. Therefore, the focus lies firstly on projects dealing with contextual issues realized worldwide. The second part of the publication shows the know-how from OAI members in certified ecological buildings in Luxembourg. Besides the printed matter, the collected data will also be available online, www.oai.lu . Many thanks to the OAI members who participated in this publication and all persons involved in the process of this project. Stay curious while discovering this book. Pierre Hurt CEO OAI Design first - build smart, sustainable and inclusive

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