Sustainable architecture

Architecture designed to minimize environmental impact

Sustainable architecture is a branch of architecture that focuses on the design and construction of buildings according to environmental sustainability criteria, with the aim of minimizing their negative environmental impact by enhancing efficiency, reducing material and energy consumption, and minimizing the disturbance to the surrounding ecosystem. Sometimes, sustainable architecture may also focus on the social aspect of sustainability. Social sustainability concerns sustainable handling the everyday positive and negatives of running a business.

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