The climate of the locality and the surrounding create the building. Other factors such as social, cultural and ecomic aspects are as important but they tend to come second.
Ecological aspect is the result of human interaction with the environment and the impact it has on the environment and the natural surroundings. These factors focus on energy, renewability, consumption, water, air and soil pollution, emission of gases, resource renewal as well as climate change.
It is also important to think about the prices of material, its transport and processing, energy efficiency, productivity in addition to the development of local economy. The management of resources, their processing, production of construction materials as well as the transport can cause environmental damage of a larger scale. Some materials that are not available locally will be delivered internationally which may be much further away from where you would like to build it. Therefore, even if these materials are produced with minimal energy consumption, the transport will affect the environment in many ways.
The process of constructing an object is also affecting the environment in terms of the use of energy and resources by creating a construction site and temporary infrastructure for its servicing, making waste and noise. This is why VR can overcome this problem.
THE RIBA WEBSITE STATES:
Architecture design should be as sustainable as possible to have the smallest environmental impact.
“The climate emergency is the biggest challenge facing our planet and our profession. But to have a significant impact we need to do more than make symbolic statements - we need to turn warm words into impactful actions.
The implementation of a five-year action plan we have committed to today will ensure we are able to benchmark change and evaluate the actions that make most impact.”
The Ethics and Sustainable Development Action Plan will include measurable actions to support a net zero carbon built environment. It will drive change at a national and international level in industry standards and practice; in government and inter-governmental policy and regulation; and in the RIBA’s own carbon footprint.
The RIBA should work to support chartered member practices (in the UK and internationally) enabling them to commit to voluntary reporting of core building performance metrics and to work towards the whole-life net zero carbon standard and standard Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) reporting metrics when the guidance is available.
RIBA Chief Executive, Alan Vallance said:
“With a background in the meteorological sector I have a deep insight into the impact of climate change and the vast and urgent task ahead of us. RIBA Council’s commitment to the climate emergency declaration is an important moment for the institute and the profession – a catalyst for the further action and change that is needed to ensure that architects and the built environment sector are at the forefront of a zero-carbon future.”
Next steps will include the implementation of a five-year detailed action plan to embed sustainable industry standards and practice and use the RIBA’s influence to improve government and inter-government policy and regulation.
Chair of the RIBA’s Sustainable Futures Group, Gary Clark said:
“The RIBA Sustainable Futures Group welcomes the RIBA Council decision to declare a climate emergency. This is an important first step that formally recognises the scale and urgency of climate change and that as architects we have an obligation to demonstrate leadership for a sustainable future. Now the hard work starts – we only have 11 years to agree and implement a net zero carbon trajectory for new and retrofitted buildings, and infrastructure. The RIBA will be guiding the profession but we must all take action to voluntarily reduce operational emissions and embodied carbon significantly beyond regulation.”
RIBA declares environment and climate emergency and commits to action plan.
UK is committed to achieve a 34% reduction in carbon emissions by 2020.
Architecture.com. (2020). RIBA declares environment and climate emergency and commits to action plan. [online] Available at: https://www.architecture.com/knowledge-and-resources/knowledge-landing-page/riba-declares-environment-and-climate-emergency-and-commits-to-action-plan [Accessed 13 Nov. 2019].
Edited by Simone
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