Sustainability in practice

摘要

As part of the RIBA's commitment to sustainable design, the RIBA Awards programme requires a sustainability statement for every building submitted for an award. In this statement, we ask for energy metrics, as well as a narrative text explaining the project's overall approach to sustainability. Because the buildings are generally less than a year old, they rarely have actual performance metrics, so we must rely on predicted design data. The metrics required for RIBA Awards are broken down into heating and electrical demand, because this reveals where the real hunger of the building lies. Any on-site renewable energy contribution must be reported separately alongside overall demand. These metrics provide critical clues to a building's likely carbon performance.