Sustainability
Sustainability is one of the core values of our architectural practice. Sustainable innovation is integral to our design philosophy, the tools we use, the technologies we embrace, and the processes we follow.
Embracing Sustainability
As architects we have a duty to our clients, our people and our planet to apply contextually relevant innovation to design more sustainable, efficient and resilient buildings, businesses and communities.
Sustainability is a standard we live by, stand by, embrace in our processes and apply to our designs. This is not new. For over 25 years this is a core principle of our practice. This is how we live and how we work.
Acknowledgements
In 2019 the UN’s Global School for Social Leaders, The Ban Ki-Moon Centre For Global Citizens, The GIAO Intelligence Analysis and Opinion Group, and the Humanist World Foundation awarded our partners Arturo Arditti and Jorge Arditti the Latin America Leaders Award and an Honorary Doctorate for the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Global Goals
Our perspective on the Sustainable Development Goals extends beyond the directly relevant goals.
We support the following goals
Number 5 – Gender Equality.
As a business, we embrace the need to ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities during our hiring process, at day to day work and for leadership at all levels.
As a business, we embrace the need to ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities during our hiring process, at day to day work and for leadership at all levels.
Number 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
Through our support of the, We Are Water Foundation we support the goal of achieving universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all and access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all by 2030.
Through our support of the, We Are Water Foundation we support the goal of achieving universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all and access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all by 2030.
Number 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy
Through our problem-solving approach and embrace of new effective technologies, we support the goal of doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency and expanding infrastructure and upgrading technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services across all our projects.
Through our problem-solving approach and embrace of new effective technologies, we support the goal of doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency and expanding infrastructure and upgrading technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services across all our projects.
Number 16 – Peace, Justice and Strong institutions
We are committed to designing and delivering cultural institutions such as The Memory and Tolerance Museum to provide public access to information, to protect and promote peace, and the fundamental human freedoms and justice.
