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Sustainable Architecture
Also Known As Green Building
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Design that reduces a building's demands on energy, water, materials and land across its whole life: orientation and shading before machinery, efficient envelopes, renewable supply, and reuse over demolition. Since buildings account for a major share of world energy use and emissions, rating systems such as LEED and BREEAM have made these measures a standard part of practice.
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Biophilic design is commonly treated as a strand within, and a design method for, sustainable and wellbeing-oriented architecture.
Passive solar design is one of the principal technical strategies of contemporary sustainable architecture.
Sustainable design returns constantly to vernacular climate lessons.
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