The Value Map: Holistic Tool for Sustainable Development
How the Value Map by Chris Butters helps building owners, architects and engineers benchmark sustainability across ecology, economy and society.
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Sustainable Investments Beat Traditional Option in 2025
Sustainable investments experienced strong growth in 2025. A persistent knowledge gap continues to limit the realisation of genuinely sustainable development.
Landscape Innovation at a School in Norway: FutureBuilt & BREEAM
Magasinparken Secondary School in Ski sets the standard for sustainable architecture with FutureBuilt and BREEAM, creating an inspiring learning environment.
ESG analysts: Green buildings and materials aren’t more expensive. How to increase demand.
Green buildings receive some attention. Why isn’t it more common, and what is recommended to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals in time?
Exposed: Environmental documentation errors and EU’s greenwashing sanctions
EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive boosts sustainability from 2024. This article compares EPDs, public procurement and financial sanctions.
Futurebuilt brilliance building: The National Museum, Oslo
The largest property owner in Norway, were pioneers in incorporating environmental requirements for materials from the project’s inception in 2014.
Elevating Standards: Environmental Verification for JM’s Entire Residential Portfolio
JM is one of the leading residential developers in the Nordic region. Elegance Meets Sustainability: JM’s Swan-certified architectural and material Triumphs.
Raising architectural vision: using ISO 14001 and EMAS certification for sustainable construction materials
Meta-study shows ISO 14001 and EMAS enhance environmental performance and support sustainability in architecture and the construction sector.
Building materials are the key to sustainable construction
Major environmental impacts, and also social ones, are embodied in materials. By Chris Butters
Sustainability is maintream today. What’s next?
Here’s the idea: nature is extremely creative and evolved many solutions to solve different challenges. And it does it in a very elegant way!