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- The project showcases low carbon, sustainable building with a highly ecological specification, in a design that achieves two major sustainability certifications (Passivhaus standard and BREEAM Outstanding).
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The Woodside Building is an important project for the global construction industry as it demonstrates that well-insulated airtight buildings that meet the highest sustainability standards can be constructed at scale with conventional budgets.
May 10, 2023 · A new Sustainable Buildings report from Deloitte suggests a tripartite approach to boosting sustainability of the engineering and construction (E&C) sector by focusing on sustainable...
- Nature of Building and Construction
- Sustainable Construction
- Buildings as A System
- Assessments Supporting Sustainable Buildings and Construction
- Sustainable Procurement
- Waste and Circularity
- Sustainable Production and Consumption in Buildings
- Characteristics of Sustainable Buildings and Construction
The building industry relies on coordination of the various stakeholders of the architecture, engineering, construction and operation (AECO) sectors to come together to design, build, and operate a building. In developing countries and regions such as Africa, this coordination is the central focus that makes or breaks projects. Technical, manageria...
Sustainable construction is about supporting the end goal of providing sustainable building outcomes. This includes the need to promote awareness of sustainability throughout the life cycle of the building. Sustainable construction involves bringing government and industry in alignment, to be proactive and monitor progress toward sustainable constr...
Buildings need to be considered at two levels: the individual components that make up the whole building, and the building itself as a holistic product that is part of its immediate context, be it neighborhood/suburbia or cities. Labeling of specific products within buildings are needed, particularly third-party certification, where independent tes...
Hastings and Wall (2007) have grouped sustainability assessment systems into the following, which offer a good guide to sustainable buildings and construction: 1. 1. Cumulative energy demand systems focusing on energy consumption. This focuses on the energy-related aspects of the building, largely on the energy needed to heat and cool buildings, fo...
Procurement may be understood as the process used to secure the acquisition of goods and services. Logically, therefore, sustainable procurement supports low environment impact on society and the environment and is an essential aspect to sustainability policies and practices, as it is an indicator of the robustness of the supply chain. If sustainab...
The consumption of resources from the planet is the crux upon which sustainability has been based. In particular, the built environment greatly influences the sustainability of and the delicate balance between anthropogenic and natural systems. The current linear cycle of taking from the earth and putting back to the earth and the atmosphere is not...
Production and consumption are closely linked to procurement. Sustainable consumption is about ensuring that sustainable buildings and construction support the demand by consumers. Production patterns need to move toward the use of less virgin materials and more circularity considerations as discussed earlier. SDG 12 on Sustainable consumption and ...
To achieve sustainable buildings and construction therefore, a set of principles may be used to draw from and applied on a case-by-case basis depending on a number of other considerations such as client, function, budget, and others. The approach cannot be prescriptive as building and construction stakeholders vary, climates vary, and cost of the p...
Hammarby Sjöstad shows that an urban district can be built with a far lower environmental impact than traditional projects, as the following facts prove: • The environmental impact is 30–40% lower than for a typical district built in the 1990s. • Car use is 14% lower than in comparable districts in Stockholm.
- Lean Construction. Lean construction is a collaborative approach to project delivery in which all stakeholders work together to optimize the project, minimizing waste wherever possible.
- Prefab, Modular, and Industrialized Construction. Take it from the “Queen of Prefab,” Autodesk Head of Industrialized Construction Strategy and Evangelism Amy Marks: Approaching design and construction from a manufacturing mindset is critical to easing the pressure on the ecosystem.
- Sustainable Construction Materials. Sustainable construction materials can be thrilling to behold, from the warm, tactile beauty of mass timber—a near-perfect material for industrialized construction—to the sculptural curves of bamboo structures, to the striking use of whole trees as structural columns, to shapely sustainable concrete forms made stronger and lighter through generative design.
- Carbon-Reduction Tools. Now is a critical time to address the ways building materials contribute to carbon emissions. Thanks to collaborative industry efforts, open, free carbon-reduction and carbon-calculator tools are beginning to make that process more transparent.
Mar 20, 2021 · Sustainability in the construction industry can help meet present and future generations’ needs by conserving energy, water, and natural resources through reuse, recycling, innovative design, and minimizing waste and pollution.
Sustainable buildings. The buildings sector – which includes energy used for constructing, heating, cooling and lighting homes and businesses, as well as the appliances and equipment installed in them – accounts for around 37 per cent of energy and process-related CO2 emissions and more than 34 per cent of energy demand globally.
