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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Formulated Year1987 dates the Brundtland Commission Report, Our Common Future, which popularized sustainable development, the direct conceptual ancestor of sustainable architecture; this source does not give a separate coining year for the architecture-specific term itself. Domain
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What do rating systems like LEED and BREEAM measure?
How far a building's design cuts its energy, water, material and land demands across its whole life.
They measure how far a building's own design reduces its demands on energy, water, materials and land across its whole life, since buildings account for a major share of world energy use and emissions.
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Biophilic design is commonly treated as a strand within, and a design method for, sustainable and wellbeing-oriented architecture.
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Passive solar design is one of the principal technical strategies of contemporary sustainable architecture.
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Sustainable design returns constantly to vernacular climate lessons.
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- intro: "environmental sustainability criteria"
- Associated With: Net Zero Energy Building
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Wikimedia FoundationSustainable development, lead section
The Brundtland Commission Report, published in 1987, helped to make the concept of sustainable development better known.
Associated With: U.S. Green Building Council, Lead section
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), founded in 1993, is a private 501(c)(3), membership-based non-profit organization that promotes sustainability in building design, construction, and operation.
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