Harrison, John, "Innovation, Materials, Sustainability", AASMIC Conference, Melbourne, 18 November 2004
The words innovation, materials and sustainability encompass the objectives of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainable Materials in Construction (AASMIC).
This paper argues that materials are the key to sustainability in the built environment and that innovative new materials will allow architects and engineers to build structures that are more pleasing to use, live in or look at, healthier for us and much more sustainable. The paper points out that huge quantities of materials are used in construction and demonstrates how their choice profoundly affects many value properties relevant to sustainability including weight, embodied energies, fuel related and chemical emissions, lifetime energies, user comfort and health, use of recycled wastes, durability, recyclability and the properties of wastes returned to the bio-geo-sphere.
Materials need to become economically more sustainable, utilising more wastes and at the same time reducing net emissions or better still sequestering carbon.
AASMIC was founded to advance innovative sustainable materials.
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