Sustainability
The sustainability of a building in terms of its material usage, construction, occupation and end of life is becoming a more important consideration. This is being driven by the world's desire to provide a better quality of life for people and protect the needs of future generations. Here we set out to explain the key principles of sustainability for construction and the main frameworks to consider in developing a sustainable specification in terms of material choice and building design. Corus examples have been used with the frameworks to illustrate how they would be used in practice, however, these can work equally well with other materials and project solutions.
Defining sustainable development
Sustainable development has become the buzz phrase of our times and can be neatly encapsulated in the following statements.
Sustainability in construction
Corus is committed to promoting sustainable construction and is addressing a wide range of issues as part of a co-ordinated strategy. The following principles have been developed as a framework to help promote sustainable development.
The sustainable building
A building designer could adopt many disparate strategies to improve the ‘sustainability’ of a building.
The sustainable specification
Sustainability in building design and specification covers factors which have an effect on social, economic and environmental impacts and considers these throughout the lifetime of the project.
Colorcoat Connection® Helpline
Confidex Sustain®
A combined guarantee that covers the durability of the Colorcoat® pre-finished steel product and makes the pre-finished steel building envelope CarbonNeutral.
