Except provides the most comprehensive and accurate sustainability audits available on the market. Except can evaluate any product, service, design, facility, company, or policy on its overall sustainability impact. We consider not just the object in question, but also its effect on the global human system. With our portfolio of quantitative tools and our multi-disciplinary, systems-thinking approach, we map both positive and negative impacts and identify leverage points for the most effective improvement.
This project arose from the joint desire of WWF and Lafarge to contribute original research to move the construction sector towards a sustainable future. We examined 11 exemplary urban districts and neighborhoods around the world from inception to inhabited, using a systemic and holistic perspective. We extracted the success and failure factors, and uncovered new strategies that accelerate sustainable development both on a project and building sector level.
The result is available in a comprehensively illustrated book, downloadable from this page, or read it online at ISSUU.
Tim Horsten
CSR Consultant / Ingenieur