Resumen de Sustainability: the view from a practitioner’s perspective
This paper summarizes the author’s keynote address to a workshop on sustainability and design education held at Harvey MuddCollege in May 2009. The remarks draw upon the author’s experience applying sustainable design to buildings and communities overthe past thirty years of professional engineering practice. Key points include: the need to include ‘right brain’ concepts into the study ofsustainability; the opportunities for increasing sustainable impacts at a community scale (rather than a single building); the need toincorporate holistic ‘closed loop’ thinking into sustainable design solutions; and the need to provide today’s engineering students withtools and concepts that will enable them to expand the application of sustainability.
