At our recent annual summit on Building Resilience held in Bangkok, I sat across the table from smart people making familiar arguments. The cost is too high. The market is not ready. The supply chain cannot support it. There is no regulation forcing the issue. I have been hearing these arguments for 15 years working in this green building auditing profession. And every year, they become a little harder to defend with a straight face.
The question was framed as a debate. The question is not whether sustainable construction is optional. The question is who still pretend to take sustainability as optional, and for how long.
