Towards a sustainable practice

Abstract

If sustainable construction is to be secured as a response to sovereign governments’ acknowledgement of global warming, then there is an urgent need to focus on both the built environment’s facility and asset serviceability and service life characteristics and their management. Includes building life management, life based procurement practice together with the product’s associated life care needs. Adopting such a practice would permit and encourage client organisations to actively improve their building stocks and facility portfolios. In a sustainable sense too, both the asset and facility organisations should seek improved building space flexibility and a whole life quality set within some environmental or life cycle measure or benchmark. Pursuing such sustainable goals means that one must also both embrace the respective project’s building material and component supply chain and include its respective waste stream’s impact at that point of the product’s life time including its dismission stage. Finally, both in a sustainability and in a business excellence sense, all organisations need to find ways to bring their respective portfolio into a CO₂‐serviceability framework and keep a watching brief on developing their responses to an inevitable carbon based taxation future.

Citation

Wyatt, D.P., Sobotka, A. and Rogalska, M. (2000), "Towards a sustainable practice", Facilities, Vol. 18 No. 1/2, pp. 76-82. https://doi.org/10.1108/02632770010312196