Property Development Case Study

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Dissertation Proposal: Are sustainability issues affecting property development?

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My objective with this study is to determine why there are only few of the recent building which are design and retrofitted in Europe and UK made to be sustainable. Sustainable development is seen as an issue that has rapidly come to affect property development and will continue to do so over the foreseeable future (John, Michael and Miles, 2009). This asserts a big question - really how are these sustainability issues affecting property development?
Many seminars have been conducted, government publications have been made, building regulations have been changed and new planning policies have been put in place just to ensure that the sustainability …show more content…

There are two commonly accepted models of sustainable development based on the TBL methodology and these are:
• Three Pillar Model
• Russian Doll Model
RUSSIAN DOLL MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT The Russian Doll Model as explained by the Environmental Pillar (2011) shows human society evolving from and entirely reliant on the environment from whence it came, and also shows the economic systems that were created by humanity as a subset of human society and one that can be and has been changed to suit the needs of the time. THREE PILLARS MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The ‘Three Pillars’ model shows sustainability as the merging of economic enterprise, social wellbeing and environmental integrity. The three pillars are also known to be a powerful tool for defining the complete sustainability problem (Simon, 2008).According to David, John and Mark (2010, p.21), the three pillars of sustainable development are characterised in the following table.
Environment
Social
Economic
Sustainability
SOME SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CRITERIA APPLIED TO PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT
Environmental dimension Use of sustainable building material such as

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