Sustainable Designing Special Report – 9. An example of an improved technical bid, submitted in the tender, oriented towards efficiency and sustainability.

Sustainable Designing Special Report – 7. Large sports facilities designed in the USA have been among the first to chase the goals of ‘sustainability’, thanks also to the precise reference given by the LEED certification that assigns a score for each of the factors involved in the design and management of the building.

Sustainable Design Special Report – 8. The exemplary cases of two projects by the international firm Zaha Hadid Architects: the reconstruction of the stadium in Aarhus, Denmark, and the construction of the new Forest Green Rovers FC stadium in England.

Sustainable Designing Special Report – 5. As part of an increasingly evident effort to stimulate a conscious design of the new generation of stadiums, FIFA (football’s highest international body) has dedicated an important part precisely to sustainability within the recent 2023 edition of its ‘Football Stadium Guidelines’.

Sustainable Designing Special Report – 6. A design guide through the parameters of LEED® certification.

Sustainable Designing Special Report – 2. The Minimum Environmental Criteria (CAM) are the environmental requirements defined for the various phases of the purchasing process by the Public Administration, aimed at identifying the best design solution, product or service from the environmental point of view along the life cycle, taking into account market availability.

Sustainable Designing – 3. Mitigation and adaptation are two ways of dealing with climate change in the daily practice of land planning and the design, construction and management of any building. To understand what to do, it is necessary to know the exact characteristics of the problem.

Sustainable designing Special Report – 1. Sustainable design is the design of products and processes optimising the consumption of raw materials and energy to minimize environmental impact. Standards and certification requirements guide us at a time when a new sensitivity to the environment is emerging, which, with the climate crisis, is sending us urgent danger signals.