WHY SUSTAINABILITY ? - a new mind set

A Sustainable Future for Development
“Meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” Brundtland Report: Our Common Future 1987. The World Commission of Environmental Development

The above statement is quoted from a seminar about sustainable study done by one of our directors from RGP London. The seminar explains how RGP will tackle the environmental and sustainability issues in our projects. A few examples consisting of our current proposals are also included in the study as case studies to test and verify the theory.

Below is the table of contents of the study:

A. CONTEXT
i) Sustainability Implementation Plan (SIP)
ii) Corporate Environmental Policy
iii) Output from the SIP
iv) Sustainability Assessment tools
v) Rational Structure

B. SUSTAINABILITY BRIEFING PROCESS
1. LAND
i) Land Use
ii) Ecology
iii) Green Travel Plan

2. RESOURCE CONSUMPTION
i) Materials
ii) Energy
iii) Air
iv) Water

3. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
i) Health and Wellbeing
ii) Pollution and Contamination

4. USERS & CUSTOMERS
i) Building and Estate Operation
ii) Portfolio Management
iii) User Satisfaction and Feedback

5. STAKEHOLDERS

I’m sure that this study will be updated and upgraded from time to time. By having this draft as guideline, it’ll be the first big stepping stone for the practice. It’ll also provide a clear vision on how to deal with every built-environment issues that need very much of our attention. Overcoming these issues is a process not just for the sake of any architecture practices to survive but most importantly I believe as part of our quest to become noble architects.

“Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall” Frank Lloyd Wright US architect (1869 - 1959)