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The document discusses the impact of climate change on the built environment, highlighting the increasing CO2 concentrations and rising temperatures due to industrial growth. It defines sustainable building as practices that minimize adverse environmental impacts and outlines five key objectives for sustainable construction. The document also categorizes types of sustainable buildings, including environmental architecture, ecological building, and green building.

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L2 - Built Environment and Climate Change

The document discusses the impact of climate change on the built environment, highlighting the increasing CO2 concentrations and rising temperatures due to industrial growth. It defines sustainable building as practices that minimize adverse environmental impacts and outlines five key objectives for sustainable construction. The document also categorizes types of sustainable buildings, including environmental architecture, ecological building, and green building.

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ADID 363

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
TOPIC 2: Built Environment and Climate
Change
Prepared by:
Dr. Harlina Md Sharif
Dr. Fatma Hussien Abass Younis
Contents of this lesson:
1. Climate change
2. Changing CO2 concentration
3. Rising temperature
4. The beginnings of Green Design
5. Sustainable building
6. 5 objectives of sustainable building
7. Types of sustainable buildings

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1. Climate change
• The climate of our planet is changing. The
climate has always been variable, but today
there is a growing concern over climate
change issues, perhaps because the
magnitude of the change seems to be
unprecedented but, more importantly,
because there is strong evidence to suggest
that humanity might be directly responsible
for climate change.

• Any change in climate would lead to


destabilization of environmental and social
conditions all around the globe. These
disturbances could jeopardize the
conservation of natural ecosystems and the
sustainability of socioeconomic systems.
2. Changing CO2 concentration
Records of past changes in
atmospheric composition over the
last millennium demonstrate the
rapid rise in greenhouse gases that is
attributable, primarily, to industrial
growth since 1750.
Early sporadic data taken from air
trapped in ice (symbols) matches up
with continuous atmospheric
observations from recent decades
(solid line). The estimated positive
radiative forcing from these gases is
indicated on the right-hand scale.
(IPPC, 2001).
2. Changing CO2 concentration
• Our planet is kept warm due to the so-called greenhouse effect. This effect consists of trapping the
energy – radiated by the earth into the atmosphere – instead of allowing it to escape into outer space.
The greenhouse gases involved in this regulatory mechanism are usually found in the atmosphere at
very low concentrations.
• Carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules are never found at concentrations higher than a few hundred parts per
million (ppm) of air parcels. Nevertheless, they play a critical role in the climatic equilibrium of the
planet. Before the Industrial Revolution, CO2 concentration was 280 ± 10 ppm for several thousand
years.
• The present atmospheric CO2 concentration is above 360 ppm and such a level has never been
reached over the past 420,000 years.
2. Changing CO2 concentration
2. Changing CO2 concentration
3. Rising temperature
4. The beginnings of Green Design
5. Sustainable building

• Sustainable building can be defined as those


buildings that have minimum adverse impacts on the
built and natural environment, in terms of the buildings
themselves, their immediate surroundings and the
broader regional and global setting.

• Sustainable building may be defined as building


practices, which strive for integral quality (including
economic, social and environmental performance) in a
very broad way. Thus, the rational use of natural
resources and appropriate management of the building
stock will contribute to saving scarce resources,
reducing energy consumption (energy conservation),
and improving environmental quality.
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC
6. Five Objectives of
Sustainable building

• Resource Efficiency
• Energy Efficiency (including Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Reduction)
• Pollution Prevention (including Indoor Air Quality and Noise
Abatement)
• Harmonisation with Environment (including Environmental
Assessment)
• Integrated and Systemic Approaches (including
Environmental Management System)
7. Types of sustainable buildings

Environmental Ecological Building Green Building


Architecture
Activities:

Find out the principles of:

• Environmental Architecture

• Ecological Building

• Green Building

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA


Thank you!

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references:
• Climate Change, 2001, The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 881 pp.
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/. [Hereafter referred to as IPCC 2001, WG1]. Section 3.

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