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We need to be investing in colleges and universities, educating our young people and making sure they get the right training from the outset.We must have an industry-wide effort, focused on sustainability in design, one where we can all contribute, rather than having a few people in senior positions trying to force the issue.. We need to do more with passive design, whether it be a fully certified, Passivhaus approach, or simply using sustainable design features more generally from the start through to completion: early design stages, technical design, procurement and construction.
Nothing lost along the way.We need to involve contractors and manufacturers, with contractors pushing their supply chains to make sustainability-led improvements in their products and materials..Yes, there are challenges, but if this industry (not famed for collaboration) would commit to working together, they are surmountable.
We’ve definitely seen an increase in collaboration in the past months.There’s a lot of enthusiasm around sustainability in design, but we need it to manifest.
The next generation are incredibly aware of the climate emergency and these types of issues, but we can’t wait for them.
If we wait any longer, we’ll miss the boat.Through doing this, the designer can start to see incongruities in the value chain..
The conclusion may be drawn that although there is alignment between Company A and the Dweller, with affordability matching the lower returns; the great-place-to-live matching the social change agenda; and the habitability matching the reputation, there are some discrepancies with the Developer.Their business model is different, working in and looking to protect a market with greater demand than supply they are looking for higher short-term returns and the market dictates that quality standards are not such an issue because Dwellers have so few options.
The answer is not to try to design the impossible but to help to re-structure the whole value chain..The idea of analysing the value landscape may not occur to most architects, designers or project managers; being more comfortable in focusing on the asset, the aesthetics, the technical details or the physical deliverables.
(Editor: Top Diffusers)