Green Architecture and Sustainability
Green architecture and sustainability sort of go hand-in-hand. When working towards making a structure environmentally friendly, if you are also keeping in mind and working towards making it sustainable, you will be on the right track and working from two directions to achieve almost identical goals. You basically cannot get one without automatically getting the other, which is a good thing. There are sort of two levels of sustainability as it relates to building. There is the materials and practices sustainability, which includes the manufacturing, transportation, and installation of the raw materials and the building as a whole. There is also the level of sustainability of the the structure as an end product, meaning how sustainable the structure is on it’s own.