Green the Urban Concrete Jungle? A Sustainable Construction Proposal
Prasad Rao, MTech PhD PennState Director, AltKuznets Sustainability Advisors Click here for the Biz Sales Office Construction – both Residential and Commercial, is a primary economic sector worldwide that, beyond adding to the Nation’s GDP, contributes to societal growth, adds value to Businesses, and generates employment. Despite those credentials, the Construction Sector bears the burden of contributing to significant environmental externalities across the spectrum of its inputs, construction-associated pollution, and demolition waste. Construction figures prominently in Climate-change debate and policy priorities for reasons its share in the economic pie, and the externality-intensiveness of income-incremented upgrades to Property assets. In response, Governments worldwide have adopted the ‘Green Building Code’ [1] to incentivize Property Builders and Developers to increment environmental sustainability of their operations. While such Code is legislated and incentivized with