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The quality of design serves as a metric for assessing the performance of architects specializing in sustainable design. Beyond meeting environmental standards, the effectiveness of their solutions in enhancing functionality, aesthetics, and user experience reflects their expertise. By achieving a balance between sustainability principles and design excellence, these architects demonstrate their ability to create impactful and enduring built environments.

Al momento de enfrentarse a un problema de diseño es fundamental poner en el centro el confort de los y las usuarias, es por ello que otorgar condiciones a las edificaciones que permitan tener un rendimiento energético eficiente impacta directamentalmente en la calidad de vida de las personas, en cómo llevan el día a día y cómo sus casas, oficinas o espacios en general contribuyen a llevar las labores diarias y no hacen más difícil habitarlas. Creo que un buen diseño debe incorporar el uso inteligente de la ventilación y la energía solar, así como también pensar en diseñar un “metabolismo” que permita que en la medida que pasa el día en los edificios conserve energía o libere poniendo en el centro a los y las usuarias.

Holistic Evaluation: Assessing design quality involves a comprehensive review of aesthetic appeal, functionality, and environmental impact. Sustainability Integration: Evaluate how well designs incorporate sustainable principles such as energy efficiency, use of renewable resources, and minimizing environmental footprint. Innovation and Creativity: Measure the level of innovation demonstrated in design solutions, including novel approaches to sustainable architecture. Long-Term Impact: Assess the potential long-term benefits of the design in terms of sustainability, durability, and adaptability to changing environmental conditions.

Choosing materials that have almost zero maintenance and long life is critical to designing sustainable buildings as building maintenance and upkeep will contribute to carbon emissions throughout the lifecycle of the building. By choosing materials that are durable we make sure that the carbon impact of the building is reduced since replacement of the material is negated.

We are currently planning a project that gets heat from wastewater heat recovery via a heat exchanger. You wouldn't believe how much heat is released into the sewage system.

Finding certified standards in sustainable building is not that easy. Through a current order that is still under construction, we have found a top provider for Germany who puts sustainability first and foremost. This is called Sentinal and everything there is low in pollutants or even none at all. We work very closely with them.

Customer satisfaction is our top priority. Our customers set very high standards in terms of quality, execution and design. The sustainability of the products we use naturally contributes to this. I work in a company where we plan and manufacture and deliver turnkey swimming facilities in public and private areas worldwide. The customer is there from the start.

Experience in Sustainable Design Projects While a mere architect can design multiple projects, it is important to understand how far is their expertise in sustainable design projects…There is no hard and fast rule that a project with a lot of greens can become a sustainable one! There are various other considerations like the source of electricity generation, waste generation, renewable energy use and so on…Also the design itself can keep the spaces cooler and naturally lit through the use of sunlight and wind flow

El concepto de sustentabilidad está en constante evolución. Lo que en algún momento se relacionaba sólo con la eficiencia energética, hoy se ha expandido al origen de los materiales utilizados, los procesos de fabricación de las partes componentes ya sean mecánicas, orgánicas o inertes, la posibilidad de reutilización futura, etc. Teniendo en cuenta este perfeccionamiento y completamiento del significado de lo sustentable, la pregunta que yo dejaría planteada sería: Será que la arquitectura más sustentable es la que genera espacios con la suficiente flexibilidad para albergar las funciones presentes y futuras con mínimos o nulos cambios? Será la sustentabilidad, sinónimo de flexibilidad?