Attributes of a Sustainable Built Environment

This policy paper, developed by the Singapore Institute of Architects, describes a sustainable build environment, framed as a set of attributes relating to the design, construction, operation and disassembly of buildings, neighbourhoods and cities. Implicit in these attributes is a multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder, whole-life perspective, reflecting the complexities of how the built environment is managed from concept to end-of-life. This paper is presented in two parts – Par 1, Definitions and Descriptors; Part 2, Process Considerations.