What the Design and Construction Industry needs to do
As an active member of the design and construction industry the Institute believes we should work to constantly realign construction of the built environment with sustainable best practice. The Institute supports the construction industry in its initiatives to:
Climate Change and the Built Environment
- Reduce energy consumption in the construction, alteration, operation and maintenance of the built environment
Using global resources
- Develop and choose materials, techniques and practices that have an increasingly diminishing environmental footprint.
- Increase awareness within the construction industry and beyond of the potential for adaptation and re-use of materials and buildings as a sustainable practice.
- Modify design and construction techniques in order to facilitate adaptation and re-use of materials and buildings in the future.
Creating sustainable communities
- Create communities that provide equitable opportunities for increased efficiencies in patterns of living.
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