Sustainability in Building
Materials
Like completed building struc-
tures, building materials, from the
required raw materials to the dura-
bility of each material, have
considerable impacts on the secu-
rity and comfort of both the occu-
pants and the neighborhood
(Cobb, 2007). Unfortunately,
most contemporary building mate-
rials have always proved to be
unsustainable, emitting very
large quantities of unwanted
gases into the atmosphere
throughout the construction's life-
span
(Emerald,
2000).
Nonetheless, it is somehow over-
whelming since sustainability is
gies, the pressure on natural
capacity of forthcoming generations to
currently becoming a principal
resources would be reduced effec-
achieve their own transportation goals
concern for developers of building
tively thus increasing the lifespans of
(Olsson, 2014). It could also be
materials (Griffiths, 2000). Today, a
such materials (Badiru, 2002). This is
defined as the ability of the transporta-
number of rare building materials have
a realization of sustainability which
tion system to support its predeter-
been introduced in the market to coun-
often aims at meeting contemporary
mined operations, such as movement
ter the release of poor quality materi-
goals efficiently and effectively without
of people, goods and information,
als into the building and construction
compromising the forthcoming gener-
while causing the least possible inter-
market. Some of these rare building
ation's capacity to achieve their own
ference
t o
t he
surroundings
materials include, wool bricks,
pre-set goals (Dorgham, 2014).
(Devereaux, 2012). Essentially, the
sustainable concrete, solar tiles,
Energy saving practice has always
application of sustainability to trans-
triple-glazed windows and paper insu-
been embraced in other disciplines for
port systems calls for the establish-
lation. Principally, all these materials
a number of years. However, the
ment of healthy correlations between
were developed to ensure the
building and construction industry has
efforts to achieve economic compe-
wellbeing of the users (Olsson, 2014).
never given a full attention to the prac-
tence, social development, and envi-
Sustainability in Energy Saving
tice thus it would be imperative to try
ronmental conservation. Economic
Sustainability in energy saving refers
and adopt the same measures.
competence relates to concerns such
Stomart
the prioritization of lowering the over-
Sustainability in Transportation
as ensuring that transport systems
all energy consumption rates instead
Being the heart of communications
remain to be cost-effective while
of installing reusable energy approach
and the expansion of socioeconomic
social development is concerned with
without any proper reason. One
structures since the ancient days,
the improvement of the society's living
common technology that has always
transportation has always been a key
standards (Hens, 2014). On the other
been used to achieve this objective is
concern with respect toCitie
sustainability
hand, the element of environmental s
the use of photovoltaic cells fixed on
(Berry, 2006). Sustainability as
conservation primarily relates to the
the roofs to harness solar energy from
employed in transportation could be
possible influences of transportation
the sun (Filho, 2012). These cells
defined as the attempt to realize
to the surroundings.
often utilize unimaginably low quantity
contemporary transportation goals
of energy. Through such technolo-
without having to interfere with the
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