Sustainability in Building Construction – A Multilevel Approach

T Lützkendorf

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/290/1/012004

Abstract

Sustainability in Building Construction – A Multilevel Approach

Highlights

Typical levels of action are the manufacturing of construction products, the provision of services, the building, the neighbourhood, the city, the region, the national building stock
Selected actors deal with the management of municipal, commercial and institutional building stocks
The extension of the present scope of Environmental Product Declarations in the direction of additional requirements for environmental information is currently underway. This development will allow the reporting of additional indicators for the quantification of environmental impacts on the global environment, support a more sophisticated assessment of the GWP, and provide guidance on risks to health and the local environment as additional information

Summary

Introduction

The implementation of sustainable development principles requires integrating general goals for maintaining a balance between the environment, society and the economy into the specific area of work and responsibility of the actors involved, as well as their work and decision-making processes. This has consequences for the decisionmaking processes of individual actors, and for the exchange of information along the value chain and across the individual levels of action. Typical levels of action are the manufacturing of construction products, the provision of services (transport, construction site processes), the building, the neighbourhood, the city, the region, the national building stock.

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