Designing buildings for the environment: a worthwhile investment?

9 March 2022

The way we choose to design and construct our buildings has a significant impact on the pressure we, as a society, place on the natural environment. In fact, the construction sector is responsible for a significant percentage of our total resource consumption. But how can we design buildings that are less damaging to the natural environment?

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By: Kikki Lambrecht Ipsen, PhD candidate at LIRIDE (University of Sherbrooke) and CIRCERB.

 

Read the full article written for Agence Science-Presse here. 


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