How to Design an Environmentally Friendly Construction Blueprint

Whether you own, manage, and run your own construction business, either in a small, local area within one county, or else on a national scale, or indeed you’ve been tasked with the specific goal of working with a construction company, an eco-friendly mindset is most definitely the way to go. With that in mind, here’s how to design an environmentally friendly construction blueprint.

Utilize Leading Carbon Capture Technology

It may well surprise you to learn that, far from being a brandnew and innovative method of fighting climate change, carbon capture technology has in fact been around for several decades.

However, in recent years, due to the rising necessity for something to be done about the plethora of negative effects on the natural world which the actions of humanity are causing, leading reputable and renowned CO2 capture technology is now more refined and more effective than ever before.

Only Use Eco-Friendly Building Materials

Another fundamental change to your building proposal with sustainability in mind is to choose as many eco-friendly building materials as possible.

Such materials include, amongst a host of others, the following:

• Sheep’s wool
• Cork
• Straw bales
• AshCrete
• Plant-based rigid polyurethane foam
• Mycelium

Build with Green Roofing in Mind

Green roofing, especially for commercial roofing projects, is not only aesthetically impressive and a fantastic focal point but is also considerably cheaper for the building owner and indeed, for the company renting the space, than traditional roofing options.

Green roofing is an extension of a normal roof and consists of plants, a drainage system, good quality waterproofing, a root repellent system, a filter cloth, and a growing medium. It can either be modular, as in an allinone, or loosely laid separate elements.

Take Advantage of Smart Technology

By far the easiest and indeed, the most innovative and groundbreakingway of ensuring that your construction project, whether private or commercial, is as sustainable and as eco-friendly as it possible can be, is to take advantage of smart construction technology.

The prime examples in a practical sense include the following:

• The leveraging of premium data analytics to aid decision-making and to optimise the construction project from start to finish.
• The use of tailormade sensor technologies which offer live updates on a particular element of the project, as well as flagging any potential issues andhighlighting any maintenance needs.
• The 3D virtual reality creation of what the project will ideally look like and indeed, consist of, before any work has started.
• The inclusion of smart technology items in the home, such as smart thermostats, a CCTV system and smart lighting options.

Dual Plumbing Systems

Finally, another greener way of approaching a construction project is to consider a dual plumbing system, which is basically where a builder uses water that isn’t safe to drink to flush through the cistern and toilet system and for outside taps.

This way, drinking water is conserved, with the dual plumbing system essentially holding two different ‘pots’ of water, with drinking water having been treated, and wastewater just for flushing and watering.