What Is SDD?
- Meets the needs of the present without compromising the quality of life of future generations.
- Maintains economic growth while producing an absolute minimum of pollution, repairing environmental damages of the past, producing less waste, and extending opportunities to live in a pleasant and healthy environment.
- Meets human needs by maintaining a balance between development, social equality, ecology, and economics.
- Demands systematic considerations of environmental impact, energy use, natural resources, economy, and quality of life.
- Has optimal benefit only when addressed at the inception of a project, and throughout the entire life cycle of a project -- from concept to planning, to programming, design, construction, and ownership.
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