Looking for ways we can make our urban areas more productive, bringing agriculture into our cities. Recognising that our urban environment should preserve nature, ensuring diverse wildlife and land quality are protected or enhanced, for example by remediating and building on polluted land or creating green spaces.
In the education, health and residential sectors, acoustics and proper sound insulation play important roles in helping concentration, recuperation, and peaceful enjoyment of property.Įnsuring people are comfortable in their everyday environments, creating the right indoor temperature as the seasons pass through passive design or building management and monitoring systems.
Incorporating natural light and views to ensure building users’ comfort and enjoyment of their surroundings, reducing lighting energy needs in the process.ĭesigning for ears as well as eyes. Promotes health and well-beingīringing a breath of fresh air inside, delivering high indoor air quality through good ventilation and avoiding materials and chemicals that create harmful emissions. Using fewer, more durable materials and generating less waste, as well as accounting for a building’s end of life stage by designing for demolition waste recovery and reuse.Įngaging building users in reuse and recycling. Safeguards our water resourcesĮxploring ways to improve drinking and waste water efficiency and management, harvesting water for safe indoor use in innovative ways and generally minimising water use in the sector.Ĭonsidering the impact of the built environment on stormwater and drainage infrastructure, ensuring these are not put under undue stress or prevented from doing their job. Integrating renewable and low carbon technologies to supply buildings’ energy needs, once design has maximised inbuilt and natural efficiencies. Minimising energy use in all stages of a building’s life-cycle, making new and renovated buildings more comfortable, less expensive to run and helping building users learn to be efficient too. The design of our built environment impacts us all, as well as our economies and the natural environment, and Green Building Councils are driving its transformation towards sustainability.Ī Green Building… Takes an intelligent approach to energy What is Green Building and why does it matter?įor today’s Europe, Green Building represents one of the most significant and exciting opportunities for sustainable growth on both a national and a global scale.
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