Design for sustainability is an approach that puts the well-being of people and the sustainability of the environment
first. To date, sustainable design has generally been a reaction to global environmental crises, focusing on resource
efficiency. Whilst efficiency is important, growth in goods and services consistently outpaces efficiency gains. As a
result, the net effect of sustainable design has been to simply slow down rapidly increasing impacts. As the saying
goes, being less bad is still bad. Sustainability, when it’s considered at all, is often tacked onto the design brief with
other competing objectives – like profitability, customer satisfaction and market share – and this often leads to
compromise and trade-offs. Design for Sustainability is a different approach where sustainability is the key objective
overarching the others. In this case, profitability and market share can’t overshadow sustainability, indeed they
enhance it.
Sustainable design optimizes building performance and minimizes negative impacts on building occupants and the
environment.We incorporate sustainable design and energy efficiency principles into our construction and
modernization projects, balancing cost, environmental, societal, and human benefits that help meet our tenant
agencies' mission objectives and functional needs.
Sustainable design principles aim to:
Designing with sustainable materials means that the goods in the circular
economy reach the end of their useful life in a suitable condition to be put to
• Optimize site potential.
new uses, unlike the buy-use-throw away or 'linear' economy. • Minimize non-renewable energy consumption and waste.
• Use environmentally preferable products.
Features and examples of eco-design • Protect and conserve water.
The eco-design approach has an impact on many product characteristics, which
include: • Improve indoor air quality.
• Enhance operational and maintenance practices.
Fewer materials • Create healthy and productive environments.
Manufacturing using fewer materials and less energy. This protects resources •
and reduces emissions.
Implementing sustainable design principles facilitates the development of enduring solutions, enabling societies to
Easy to recycle safeguard the welfare of their populace and foster a harmonious coexistence with the natural environment across
Ensuring easy disassembly means using materials that are easily identified, successive generations. Designers employ strategies to mitigate waste generation by developing goods that possess
reused or recycled.
recyclability, composability,and, ideally, perpetual reusability. Additionally, they can develop a manufacturing
Use of bio-materials procedure to mitigate or eliminate carbon dioxide emissions. One of the most prominent challenges of our era
Using a single type of material or a biodegradable material is best, whether pertains to environmentalism and climate change. Consequently, numerous designs are closely associated with
natural or a derivative. addressing these issues.
Long-lasting
Shapes and sustainable materials should be long-lasting, maximising the useful
life of the product. Also the Green and sustainable sourcing refers to process of finding
Multipurpose, reusable and recyclable and extracting the necessary resources to create a product. Some
Products should have multiple uses, be suitable for reuse, and be manufactured resources are hard to find, energy-intensive to extract, and difficult
with recyclable materials. or impossible to renew. Fossil fuels, precious metals, and old-growth
Lowering emissions trees are great examples of unsustainable resources that require
Products should be of a suitable size to save material and fuel consumption environmental destruction to extract and that cannot be renewed
during transport to reduce CO2 emissions. quickly or at all, making them poor choices from a sustainability
Innovative
standpoint. Some other resources are abundant, and require little
Technological innovations can optimise product efficiency and sustainability. energy to grow or extract, or renew rapidly. In contrast to
old-growth trees, for instance, bamboo is a much more sustainable
Green message choice.
Sustainable design spreads the idea of sustainability with messages intrinsic to
the product itself.
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