Dive Summary:
- Scoring well in a sustainability-rating system cannot take the place of making well-informed decisions throughout the development process, an international engineers' group says.
- Success has to be judged on a project-by-project basis and has to consider environmental, economic and social outcomes, according to a report from the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC).
- Sustainability experts have to guard against being brought into projects too late to affect basic decisions and instead being given a role that, as an author of the report said, in "the telling of a palatable story."
From the article:
An old Korean proverb says, "Even monkeys may fall from trees." In other words, even experts make mistakes, including, perhaps, experts on sustainable design and construction. ...
