The problem of defining standards in the sustainable architecture design

Lucjan Kamionka

Abstract

In the period of the threat to the environment and energetic crises the sustainable development has become the main strategy in the land management. Architecture and building industry constitute the biggest sections of economy in the economic aspect and in relation to the flow of raw materials. Most of the capital both financial and natural is invested in buildings. The role of architecture and construction in creating the sustainable development is very significant.

Sustainable development was defined in 1987 in the Report ‘Our Common Future’ worked out by The World Commission on Environment and Development also called the Brundtland Report. The Report contains the list of threats to the future proper development of mankind. A central category of the Report became the notion of the sustainable development as well as the problem of satisfying people’s needs at the expense of nature, the needs of the rich at the expense of the poor and the needs of today’s generation at the expense of the future generations.

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