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  1. As a Project Manager on Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, I am disappointed in the interest shown in Substinability by Contractors and Suppliers. Why is it so hard to get the message accross, that we are destroying the world if we continue ‘business as usual’

    Thomas Power

  2. Yesterday I visited Greenbuild Expo 2011 in Manchester to learn more about sustainability in house construction. The entire event was about refurbishment with 80% of the exhibitors promoting solar heating. When will the industry realise that trucking 10,000 tonnes of soil off site and replacing it with 10,000 tonnes of stone trucked in from the nearest quarry. Is a far bigger problem than collecting a few hours of electricity per year. Cut and fill is a crime and should have no place in modern building methodology and yet nearly every Tender we receive specifies it. Sustainability starts in the ground and not on the roof.

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