Why downsizing is essential for your next sustainable building project

If you take the climate crisis seriously, and are quite vocal about it, yet you are planning a long-term, huge ‘sustainable’ or ‘eco’ building project, you might be missing the point.

Bigger houses and workplaces need more materials. They also use more energy to heat and power when compared to a smaller building that provides identical requirements.

When I say bigger, I mean bigger than necessary.

Rethinking the size of your sustainable building project

Sometimes it’s just a case of making sure a building is big enough for your needs and that it’s not supersized.

If you want something to be bigger than necessary, why is this? What are the deep reasons inside your head for wanting to do this?

Make things smaller to be sustainable.