The Value Map: Holistic Tool for Sustainable Development
How the Value Map by Chris Butters helps building owners, architects and engineers benchmark sustainability across ecology, economy and society.
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Library and resources
The Greenbuilt library and resources furnish you with scientifically grounded information on sustainable building products, buildings, and tools.
Crime-Preventive Architecture and Sustainable Development
Discover how architects use CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) to create safer, socially sustainable and low-carbon cities. Evidence-based guidance on urban form, materials, sunlight, colour psychology and life-cycle design.
Sustainable Investments Beat Traditional Option in 2025
Sustainable investments experienced strong growth in 2025. A persistent knowledge gap continues to limit the realisation of genuinely sustainable development.
Materials and health: The seven sisters of indoor environment. Science.
Building materials and installations have a significant impact on health. Indoor environment, in addition to five physical aspects in indoor climate, encompasses psychological and well-being factors in buildings.
Sustainable architectural innovations in transforming a 130-year-old Barn
Near by Oslo, a 130-year-old barn has been given a new lease of life. Nedre Sem barn is innovative through the sum of the project’s exemplary characteristics.
Marginal expenditure: Design, energy and environment. Sandy Halliday.
This SolarBau funding programme provided support for energy saving. It did not provide capital funding but instead supported design work.
ESG analysts: Green buildings and materials aren’t more expensive. How to increase demand.
Green buildings receive some attention. Why isn’t it more common, and what is recommended to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals in time?
Snøhetta architects become carbon negative
From 2039, the architecture firm Snøhetta will only design carbon-negative buildings.
What is FutureBuilt and why is it important?
The green economy affects the growth of human well-being and social equality while reducing environmental threats and the use of natural resources. Architects, how can this be executed in the face of a worldwide shortage of skilled professionals?
Tools for landscape planning and biodiversity conservation.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has developed a scientifically based tool to conserve our vital biodiversity.
Seven sustainable building trends 2023
Major environmental impacts, and also social ones, are embodied in our buildings.
Biomimicry in Architecture
The strength of nature is “lazy and intelligent,” says Sigrid Adriaenssens, a professor of engineering at Princeton who specializes in biomimicry. Spider silk is five times stronger than steel.
Buildings designed to connect people with nature and to mimic the patterns and systems found in the natural world.
Biophilia and biomimicry are two concepts that are gaining momentum in the field of architecture.
Sustainable buildings are for people
Chris Butters editorial to the book: 100 SUSTAINABLE SCOTTISH BUILDINGS
So the idealists were right, Utopia requires constraints. Professor Sandy Halliday MCIBSE CEng
Crucial aspect of architectural skills and imagination
Book: Sustainable construction second edition.
a masterclass on the principles and techniques involved in the design and delivery of practical, affordable, high quality sustainable buildings and places.
Circular Ecodesign, Materials and the Value Chain
Circular economy, sustainable products, ecological and social responsibility – by Chris Butters
Scope of opportunity with environmental requirements at Norwegian Steel Day 2022
Our presentation includes environmental demand from Breeam, Swanmark, Statsbygg and innovative green business development
Building materials are the key to sustainable construction
Major environmental impacts, and also social ones, are embodied in materials. By Chris Butters
There’s a better and cheaper way to ease our electricity crisis – drastically reduce demand
We could fulfil all our power needs with less than one quarter of today’s energy. By Chris Butters