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Ethical challenges and greenwashing – challenges for structural engineers

 Ethical challenges and greenwashing – challenges for structural engineers
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Présenté pendant IABSE Symposium: Construction’s Role for a World in Emergency, Manchester, United Kingdom, 10-14 April 2024, publié dans , pp. 99-106
DOI: 10.2749/manchester.2024.0099
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In the face of the climate emergency, but also threats to biodiversity, and with exploitation of limited resources posing serious threats, it is easy to resort to ‘greenwashing’, noting small chang...
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Auteur(s): (Ramboll, Southampton, UK)
Médium: papier de conférence
Langue(s): anglais
Conférence: IABSE Symposium: Construction’s Role for a World in Emergency, Manchester, United Kingdom, 10-14 April 2024
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Page(s): 99-106 Nombre total de pages (du PDF): 8
Page(s): 99-106
Nombre total de pages (du PDF): 8
DOI: 10.2749/manchester.2024.0099
Abstrait:

In the face of the climate emergency, but also threats to biodiversity, and with exploitation of limited resources posing serious threats, it is easy to resort to ‘greenwashing’, noting small changes which have been provided when large changes are needed to even meet current commitments. However, many of the standard solutions to net zero, such as use of increased proportions of GGBS in concrete, are themselves constrained by limitations to availability of scarce resources.

This paper gives the author’s personal response to these challenges, considering ways in which structural engineers can avoid just ‘greenwashing’, but instead aim to do good as well as just avoiding harm. Engineers must have excellent professionalism and competence, and strong ethics.

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