Acheiving Building Sustainability Through Innovation
Achieving sustainability in today's increasingly complex and cost-constrained working environment requires a greater appreciation and knowledge of related environmental impacts (e.g., greenhouse gases), and their associated societal costs, related uncertainties1, and achievable benchmarks for demonstrating improved performance across the whole range of building types and occupancies that our HVACR industry impacts.
To better understand the term "sustainability," I recall reading a quote that I liked from Ray Anderson, chairman of Interface, Inc. He said: "Sustainability implies allowing a generation to meet its needs without depriving future generations of a way to meet theirs." What, then, is building sustainability?