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.
THE PORTAL FOR GREEN ARCHITECTURE
– BUILDINGS, BUILDINGPRODUCTS & RESOURCES
UN sustainable goals
Seven sustainable building trends 2023
Major environmental impacts, and also social ones, are embodied in our buildings.
Biomimicry in Architecture
The strength of nature is “lazy and intelligent,” says Sigrid Adriaenssens, a professor of engineering at Princeton who specializes in biomimicry. Spider silk is five times stronger than steel.
Building materials are the key to sustainable construction
Major environmental impacts, and also social ones, are embodied in materials. By Chris Butters