Sustainable architecture

Sustainable architecture is architecture that seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings through improved efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, development space and the ecosystem at large. Sustainable architecture uses a conscious approach to energy and ecological conservation in the design of the built environment.^[1]

The idea of sustainability, or ecological design, is to ensure that use of currently available resources does not end up having detrimental effects to a future society's well-being or making it impossible to obtain resources for other applications in the long run.^[2]

^ "Sustainable Architecture and Simulation Modelling", Dublin Institute of Technology, [1] Archived 2013-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
^ Doerr Architecture, Definition of Sustainability and the Impacts of Buildings [2]

[1] "Sustainable Architecture and Simulation Modelling", Dublin Institute of Technology, [1] Archived 2013-05-06 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Doerr Architecture, Definition of Sustainability and the Impacts of Buildings [2]

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