Practical Evaluation Tools for Urban Sustainability (PETUS)

The Practical Evaluation Tools for Urban Sustainability is an online tool to help people consider the impacts of buildings and infrastructure on the environment, society and the economy. The website includes information that can be used to analyze and improve the sustainability of urban infrastructure, whatever the size or type. The information in PETUS includes:case study projects from across Europe that illustrate where sustainability has been considered, methods that can be used to guide and analyze consideration of sustainability in a practical way,EU legislation that has to be followed in member countries.a monitoring process to enable YOU to track the inclusion of sustainability in YOUR project. PETUS covers the sectors of:Energy -information regarding developments related to energy infrastructure. Infrastructure within this sector is likely to be associated with

increase in supply of energy from renewable sources,
reduction of energy use,
maintenance of current energy supply systems to ensure that a constant supply of energy is provided.