Can Buildings Save and Improve Municipal Infrastructure?

Central Europe towards Sustainable Building

生态环境科学

Kujawski, W.^1

Integrated Solutions Group, Ottawa, Canada^1

关键词: Built environment;    Conventional energy sources;    Increasing capacities;    Municipal infrastructure;    Reduction potential;    Sense of community;    Stormwater systems;    Sustainable building;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/290/1/012123/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/290/1/012123

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Architects, while creating the built environment, expand their knowledge by learning that buildings are more than places to live, work and play. Buildings can create a sense of community and add to the character of neighborhoods and cities. They can also support communities by either directly contributing to the infrastructure requirements or indirectly by reducing their demands and creating supply and treatment systems, thus increasing capacity in community energy, water treatment and stormwater systems for others. They can also reduce wastage by recapturing heat lost through inefficient systems, sewers, and by using municipal waste as a fuel source. Buildings can use a lot of energy delivered by conventional energy sources. The reduction potential for their high energy (and water) demand always represents an opportunity to decrease the potential impacts on municipal infrastructure. It is also a significant part of the challenge to reduce or cut emissions, mitigate the effects of climate change and save on resources. The paper explains how buildings can mitigate such impacts while also acting as contributors to the infrastructure. The examples demonstrate various urban and building related design concepts combined with some essential aspects of costs and savings incurring in sustainable buildings and communities. When buildings act as infrastructure they can benefit not just the developer, occupant or owner, they can also spread those benefits to the neighborhood and community and much further-to the entire planet.