Sustainability Defined
CRSI endorses the commonly accepted United Nations definition of sustainability as stated below.
“Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs – by attempting to balance social, economic and environmental effects.”
Building owners and users have discovered the array of benefits achieved with sustainable construction. These advantages go beyond environmental gains helpful to the community and marketing prestige. They include durability and other features that produce bottom-line savings that cut time and cost during a project’s construction and service life. No construction material contributes to sustainability needs more than steel reinforced concrete.
 www.sustainableconcrete.org The Concrete Joint Sustainability Initiative is a coalition of industry associations representing companies who make or maintain concrete structures. We share a goal of educating ourselves, our members, and our customers about the role and responsibilities of concrete in sustainable development. The Sustainable Value of Concrete Concrete’s contribution to these values derives from its unique properties. It is strong and durable, resistant to deterioration and damage. It buffers temperature, and it can be colored and placed to do this in a way that works with passive solar energy to heat or cool spaces. It buffers sound, providing respite in a crowded, noisy world. It is versatile, allowing a large range of shapes, textures, and structural approaches to create the function, look, and feel appropriate to the project. It is also versatile in the flexibility of component materials, a quality which both extends the range of performance properties – insulation, permeability, and strength – and allows variation in the resources used to produce it. |
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