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Suvela district lies next to Espoo Centre, one of the five suburban centres within the City of Espoo, Finland. The International Student Idea & Design Competition SuvelaSURGE aims at generating tools for rapid and ambitious regeneration and redevelopment of a neighbourhood with a history of social housing and poor image.

The competition is part of the programme of activities associated to the SB11 Helsinki World Sustainable Building Conference, and is intended for multidisciplinary working teams.

Submitted ideas will be assessed against sustainability (social, economic and environmental) criteria and executability, life-cycle and innovation value.

More information can be found on the competition website, www.sb11.org/competition

This blog is for communication between the participating teams, and between the teams and the organizers.

A team may ask any questions or even propose a thread on any issue related to the competition. Other teams are encouraged to comment, develop the topic further or simply answer it based on their own understanding.

The organizers will supervise the contents of the threads and reserve the right to remove undesirable content. The threads will be closed twice by the organizers (after the 2 rounds of Q&A) with their final comments. The resulting threads are left visible for all competitors, forming a Q&A section for the competition. After the second Q&A round discussion, threads are still encouraged but the organizers reserve the right to stay silent.