What Institute members need to do
Architects can, and must, play a fundamental role in achieving a sustainable future. The Institute encourages the architectural profession to take immediate action. In doing so, Institute members should take the following action:
Climate Change and the Built Environment
- Create design solutions that aim for best practice in progressively reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment.
- Commit to work toward placing sustainability at the core of their practice structure.
- Work toward reducing the carbon footprint of their practices.
Using global resources
- Continually develop and improve practices and procedures that give holistic consideration to global environmental impacts of design decisions.
- Create design solutions that minimise the use of water and maximise the potential for water recycling and re-use.
- Minimise the environmental impact of materials use by considering issues such as embodied energy, biodiversity, human health toxicity and the end of life fate of the material.
Creating sustainable communities
- Promote the importance and substantial opportunities of sustainable design to clients and colleagues.
- Continually innovate in our practices and procedures to move progressively toward a built environment that positively contributes to natural systems.