Modern "sustainable"' innovations in architecture are failing to slow climate change, but revisiting ancient knowledge and techniques found in traditional architecture could offer better solutions.

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Consistent Engineering Consultants is a Business Reporter client. The construction industry is responsible for 39 per cent of global CO 2 emissions. How can it transform itself and contribute to a ...

Many architects and designers were caught dead in their tracks when the recent economic downturn struck. Standard architecture in Los Angeles successfully powers through by taking sustainable action, ...

The future of the world looks, at the moment, to be rather pessimistic, but there are plenty of designers and thinkers out there who are trying to make life greener and more sustainable — often ...

With growing concerns about the construction industry's contribution to climate change, sustainable design is more important than ever. As the year comes to a close, we toast the best, most ...

This note introduces the concept of Design for Adaptability as an essential strategy for creating sustainable buildings. The approach requires life-cycle thinking and the ability to understand how ...

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Systems thinking is required to create a sustainable future. With its many interacting systems, sustainable design is too complicated to be addressed in a linear fashion, as is typically the case.