New Urbanism & Sustainable Construction

The world has changed, gone is the denial that our built environment has not damaged the planet’s climate and its eco-systems, as evidenced by the United Nations Environment Programme. This wide-spread acceptance has led governments and private business to seek to collaborate in an effort to find new and sustainable methods to shape and create the built environment. Indeed, that aim is reflected in our design charrette objective to showcase how sustainable construction methods can be incorporated in the design of an incubator building for Small or Medium Enterprises (SMEs),who are themselves trying to find an essential solution to our global climate emergency . While there are many ways the proposed building could be designed, constructed, and lived within sustainably, new urbanism offers a holistic approach to achieve sustainability of the built environment. The term new urbanism was first coined by Stefanos Polyzoides in 1991 to give name and expression to the ideas that he and