A Note on the RIBA Sustainable Outcomes Guide
The RIBA follow eight out of thirteen of the UN Sustainble Development Goals in Practice. These are:
3. Good Health and Wellbeing - Good Health and Wellbeing
6. Clean Water and Sanitation - Sustainable Water Cycle
7. Affordable Clean Energy - Net Zero Operational Carbon Emissions
8. Economic Growth - Sustainable Life Cycle Cost
9. Innovation and Infrastructure - Sustainable Connectivity and Transport
11. Sustainble Cities and Communities - Sustainable Communities and Social Value
12. Responsible Consumption + Production - Net Zero Embodied Carbon Emissions
13. Climate Action - Whole Life Carbon Emissions
15. Life on Land - Sustainble Land-use and Ecology
Sustainability Assessment Tools
- Should be chosen for the quality of insight and feedback they provide to inform briefing and design in the early stages, expectations management as a project proceeds and performance assessment and remedial interventions once a building is used.
Greenstar (Australia) and Living Building Challenge provide the most breadth of consideration against the RIBA goals. These include, but not limited to; sustainable life cycle cost, zero embodied carbon, sustainable connectivity and transport and sustainable water cycle.
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