The Built Environment

Humans rely on the built environment to survive, experience safety, and to live and work across a broad number of climate zones otherwise unconducive to the modern living and working environments. According to the International Energy Agency 2018 report which focused on the construction sector:

The buildings and construction sector accounted for 36% of final energy use and 39% of energy and process-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2018, 11% of which resulted from manufacturing building materials and products such as steel, cement and glass.₁