Historically, our built environment has often taken an antagonistic stance against nature. Human beings took, somewhat predictably, a very human-centric design approach, attempting to control nature with engineering and building solutions that were perceived to suit our needs. The consequences of this pursuit – air and water pollution, urban heat islands, flooding – are being felt all over the world. But there’s change in the air: now, we’re all about co-habitation – humans and the natural environment living together, ecologists and engineers working hand in hand. This new approach to the built environment will help to sustain human life and help improve quality of life through increased access to open space, improved air quality, reduction in the urban heat island, reduction in waste and increased biodiversity…
The age of ecological engineering: latest issue of sustain magazine out NOW. Sign up HERE.
Featuring the best news, opinion, exemplar case studies and in-depth features on sustainability and the built environment from some of the most respected commentators in the sector, the March-April issue of sustain’ Magazine is a must read.
Among the many highlights in this issue are:
- Cities beware – why cities need to act now if they are to avoid locking themselves into long-lived unsuitable and unsustainable infrastructure;
- Sweden’s future cities – examine the latest thinking being applied to the development of “low-carbon cities” in Sweden;
- Town centres: back to the future? – are current town-planning approaches out-of-date & failing to offer the level of flexibility we need to respond to the changing landscape of our town centres;
- The age of ecological engineering – why we need to put ecology and engineering at the centre of our design and engineering process;
- Green roofs: overhead assets – vegetation is sprouting in the most unlikely places as clients in all sectors raise their sustainable ambitions;
- Tackling behavioural problems – new technologies for testing building performance and behaviour analysis are starting to close the performance gap;
- Community scale – how MediaCityUK in Salford has pioneered BREEAM Communities throughout its development…
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