IT & Sustainability
IT & Sustainability
The strategy for more sustainable construction evolves around the key themes for action by the construction industry:
- Design for minimum waste
- Lean construction (and waste minimisation)
- Minimisation of energy in construction and use
- Minimisation of pollution
- Preservation and enhancement of biodiversity
- Conservation of water resources
- Respect for people and local enviornment
- Setting targets (i.e. monitoring and reporting for benchmarking of performance)
Several IT solutions and tools have been developed in order to assess, measure, compare and cost variety of schemes.
IT Construction Forum has grouped its assessment of the IT tools for sustainability under the following headings:
- Energy Modelling
- Cost Modelling
- Assessment Tools
- Performance Indicators