Sustainable development in building 

Sustainability is one of the most important challenges for architecture design on the national or international scale. Sustainable practices pay equal attention to ecological, economic and social aspects, so that people could pass on an intact environment and the same opportunities in life to future generations. This is an extremely important topic, especially for the building sector due to the materials and resources consumed here and the related impacts on the environment. This will become even more important for the building sector due to climate change and the growing shortage of resources. Buildings are complex systems that are design to fulfil their defined task. They also provide both living space and a work environment, and they affect their users’ well-being, health and satisfaction as well as the quality of social life.
The aim of sustainable building design should hence be to create a building that ensures maximum sustainability and also saves energy and resources. The extensive inclusion of sustainability aspects in the life cycle of a building, for instance during planning, construction, use and modernism, as well as demolition, should be proactively designed and influenced. The building’s structural and technical concept must generally take standards and legal requirements into account as well as the generally accepted state of the art. In particular, the use requirements that are normally specified by the customer must be fulfilled under defined boundary conditions. Furthermore, sustainability requirements, in other words ecological, economic and social qualities, must be defined in the process of designing buildings in order to make sure that buildings could carry out their tasks in relation to the environment and society.