Sustainable architecture

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.

This includes the impacts that the negatives and positives have on each individual.
architecture relies on social sustainability to guide the topic towards its true goal.
Sustainable architecture uses a conscious approach to energy and ecological conservation in the design of the built environment.

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