文档介绍：The Third Industrial Revolution
Contribution to the “Green Industrial Revolution”, published by the Free University, Berlin.
Norman Foster 2008
Sustainability is a word that has gained great currency over the last decade. However, in my experience,
few people are aware of what it really means, or understand the challenges that we face. In the
industrialised world, buildings and the activities within them consume almost half the energy we generate
and are responsible for half the carbon dioxide emissions – the remainder being divided almost equally
between transport and industry. Sustainability requires us to challenge this equation and to think holistically.
The location and function of a building; its flexibility and life span; its orientation, form and structure; its
heating and ventilation systems and the materials used; together impact upon the amount of energy
required to build, maintain and use it, and travel to and from it.
These are issues that have concerned my practice from its earliest days. Thirty years ago we considered
ponents which would contribute to energy savings. This soon progressed to entire systems at
the scale of buildings. As we became more aware of the interconnectivity and unifying qualities of energy
systems and the environment, so we began to tackle the issue at the scale of munity – looking at
entire urban quar