Is Building Construction Approaching the Threshold of Becoming Unsustainable? - A System Theoretic Exploration towards a Post-Forrester Model for Taming Unsustainable Exponentialoids

This book is a bold attempt to tackle a broad difficult and important topic: sustainability in construction. At the outset it marshals a large amount of insights and understanding from prior literature to bear on the focused topic. Given the extraordinary nature of the problem the author is compelled to create a specific methodology up to the task. The analysis leads to a redefinition of the concept of sustainability and to a suggested method for ascertaining the requirements set by sustainability targets to construction. This is a well-justified pragmatic method which has face value and shows promise.All in all the book is of interest not only through the suggested method but also as a synthesis of facts thinking and understanding related to sustainability in construction. Professor Lauri Koskela School of the Built Environment University of Salford UK.