Arup launches sustainable strategy for its clients

The goal is to encourage clients to have carbon neutral buildings constructed of sustainable building products that collect and reuse water.

What has been lacking in the past decade is a good strategy at the design stage to build in sustainability, according to Adrian Campbell, associate director of Arup. Clients tend to “cherrypick” issues to achieve isolated targets, he said. Arup’s strategy will look at the overall sustainability of a building from the very beginning.

Buildings should be able to cope with climate change and make a positive contribution to the local community. Arup also has a full-time psychologist working within its sustainability team looking at issues such as how people feel when working in a building.

Arup is working on what is says is the world’s first sustainable city, in Dongtan, China and hope to use lessons learned for its work there.