Resumen de How can we create an engineering industry while building nothing?

James Norman, Tim Ibell, Oliver Broadbent

• IN LAST MONTH’S ISSUE1, we asked a very important question: do we need more buildings? Or can we fi nd a way and means of supporting our economy and infrastructure while building nothing? The latter position is supported by the World Green Building Council, which last year released a report2 highlighting the fact that, to save the most carbon, we need to do just that – build nothing .

  But building nothing raises two obvious challenges.