Why built environment

Follow us Twitter LinkedIn Facebook. Built Environment. Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on print Share on email. Overview What we deliver Our services Our experts. Overview The quality of the built environment around us has a significant impact on our lives. Creating healthy places Healthy placemaking for healthy lives. Design Review Expert and impartial reviews to evaluate the design quality of built environment projects. Inclusive Environments The Inclusive Environments programme at Design Council aims to raise awareness about the importance of designing places that meet the needs of the diversity of people who want to use them.

We believe that quality design must be prioritised by built environment professionals and should run through the entire planning and development process. Supporting re-use of existing buildings: Our work with Clarion Housing and on estate regeneration.

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Journal of Architecture and Planning Research, 14 4 , — Gehl, J. Life between buildings. Copenhagen: The Danish Architectural Press. Golledge, R. Wayfinding behaviour: Cognitive mapping and other spatial processes. Hass-Klau, C. Streets as living space. Helping public places play their proper role. London: Landor Publishing. Herzog, T. A cognitive analysis of preference for urban spaces. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 12 3 , — Searching for legibility.

Environment and Behavior, 35 4 , — Kaplan, R. The built environment is traditionally defined as what we, people, have constructed to live, work, move around and get access to a broad range of services we need: from water, electricity, and, increasingly, means of communication and connectivity, to entertainment, relaxation, and care.

In our binary world, we often distinguish the built environment or the human-made environment from the natural environment and proud ourselves over what we have made within environments, both human-made and natural. The built environment is typically the study domain of several sciences and, in recent years, has become mainly debated in the scope of some of the significant challenges of our time: aging and growing populations, urbanization, climate change and pollution, natural resources and more, with local and cultural differences across the globe.

The transformation of the built environment and of the construction sector must be a priority…in order to build the sustainable world of tomorrow…to cope with the disruptive pace of digitalization and to capitalize on its potential we need a holistic approach…that will encourage cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral and cross-border collaboration. These broader challenges come on top of questions regarding several aspects of what living means, across our lifespan.

Living as in, for example, being educated as children, treated as patients, heard as citizens, empowered as workers, respected and included as we get older or become disabled, being protected, the list is long. Last but not least, there is also our duty to think about the lives of those coming after us, the repercussions of our actions for their future, and how that — uncertain — future forces us to rethink the built environment as we start to learn from the crisis we go through.

It is also a stress test for our built environment and how we look at it. As competition for natural resources continues to intensify due to global population and economic growth, the availability of materials will be subject to increased uncertainty. Furthermore, the extraction, transportation, use and disposal of these materials result in substantial environmental impacts, including emissions to the air, water and land; energy and petroleum consumption; use of non-renewable mineral resources, expenditure of fresh water, and land and habitat use.

SMM, the use and reuse of materials in the most productive and sustainable way over their entire life cycles, can help the U. The application of SMM in the built environment includes practices such as:.