This project is in Rennebu municipality, but we will use information about the cabin industry in Oppdal as that is the information we have at hand, and they are close to one another. In the case of Oppdal municipality, cabins are only used 57 days each year on average (Nasjonalparken næringshage AS 2015). That means that these big cabins are unused 308 days each year. This is not sustainable, as the cabin industry keeps growing. We simply cannot own one cabin each if we want the industry to be sustainable. Therefore, this project aims at solving this problem, creating a sustainable solution. The solution seems to have close ties to the idea of sharing economy.

In Oppdal the cabin building industry is an important economic factor. Cabins in Oppdal ensure 180 full-time equivalents (FTE), and an additional 85-100 FTEs come from the building of new cabins (Nasjonalparken næringshage AS 2015).

The cabins in this green cabin development project will be built in clusters, and have facilities that the different cabins share. These are facilities that are not necessary for each cabin owner to own by themselves, such as a sauna, an extra guest rooms, a storage, a ski workshop and so on. In addition to sharing these facilities, this project wants the cabins to be used more than 64 days a year. One way to ensure this, is to encourage the owners of each cabin to rent out their unit when it is not used by themselves. This can enhance sustainability through sharing, and more people will have access to the mountain and the recreational activities it provides. How this will be done is not yet decided.