Real Estate and Construction, a Major Cause of Global Warming

In the contemporary business environment, companies are striving hard to enhance their  productivity and improve their customer base.

While encountering this race to success  and customer acquisition, companies are somehow ignoring the importance of the  environment and how they are directly or indirectly damaging the ecosystem. 

Unfortunately, real estate and construction companies are also a part of this destruction.  According to Deloitte.com, the real estate and construction industry is one of the highest  contributors to global warming, responsible for 40% of all global carbon emissions. Here  is a prime reason for global warming and a guide to avoiding even worse circumstances. 

Is construction a forest destruction? 

It is undoubtedly true that our environment is our best friend. We all are responsible for  protecting our environment through baby steps. However, we are lacking behind in  preventing our environment from global warming and disbalance in nature.

According to 8BillionTrees.com, over 15 billion trees are cut down annually, whereas 2.2 to 7 billion  trees are cut down for construction and infrastructure development.

The unprecedented  escalation in demand for housing societies and shopping arenas because of  overpopulation has led real estate companies to this.

However, only a few companies are  socially responsible by providing precautionary measures and planting trees before  cutting them. An alternative to wood for construction can be bamboo. As per the research 

by theconstructor.org, bamboo as a building material has high compressive strength and  low weight. It has been one of the most used building materials as support for concrete,  especially in those locations where it is found in abundance. Bamboo as a building  material is used for the construction of scaffolding, bridges and structures, and houses.

Role of vertical forest in preventing global warming

Vertical forests acquire less land to build and are highly responsive to the damaging  environment. These forests facilitate building micro-climate and filtering dust particles in highly populated urban areas.

The ever-increasing pollution has made it essential for  almost every metropolitan area to build a vertical forest to recover the environment.

All  real estate and construction companies need to join hands and take a step before it gets  over our heads. This sustainable residential building will facilitate people living on a  property, contributing to the reforestation and regeneration of the healthy ecosystem.

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Contribution of skyscrapers to preventing global warming

According to architechture2030.org, the built environment generates 50% of global CO2 emissions yearly, whereas the building operations account for 27% of the total carbon  

emissions. To avoid deforestation, real estate companies should build green skyscrapers  to help fight climate change. It will allow the building to consume less area and facilitate  more people without compromising on climate change.