It’s normal to expect construction projects have environmental design or sustainable design features to them. It’s a popular and environmentally friendly trend, widely implemented in the construction and design industry.
Sustainable design is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of social economic and ecological sustainability.
Solar panels, wind generators, water turbines and recycled water are all examples of sustainable design features that can be implemented on a building project. These aspects of design can help to form the blueprint of a building, possibly even becoming a major feature that the building is designed around. This is the nature of sustainable design within the planning phase.
These design features are not only structural parts of a building but can also work to maintain the building. Solar panels for example, would help to power a building if connected to its electricity supply.