Sustainable Construction

The Forest Stewardship Council, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Germany, was started to manage and maintain the half-decreased and degraded global forests left. The international organization primarily aims to manage global forests through the certification of timber. The certification system is the leading global standard for managing forest-based production. The organization's jurisdiction involves over 550 million forest acres. The organization unites businesses, forest protector NGOs, consumers, producers of forest-based products, and governments. This unity of stakeholders ensures the healthy usage of forests for production, whereby the organization can harness and influence tree-product market demands to limit excessive and unnecessary usage. Through its multiple stakeholders, such as NGOs, production firms, scientists and environmental experts, the international organization sets regulatory standards that legitimize timber harvesting in appropriate settings and amounts. Therefore, the Forest Stewardship Council's mission is to manage global forests and influence the healthy use of forests, done through globally accredited timber certification that ensures the correct usage and production of forest-based products.

To ensure environmental quality in indoor spaces during construction, the 75% standard of daylights and views must be met for each building. The standard intends to ensure [A1] that buildings and their occupants have enough outdoor experience, [A2] especially in commonly occupied areas in a building. The calculation and measurement method is among the three ways of determining and documenting a building's satisfaction in meeting this standard. The standard is achieved by calculating a minimum glazing standard of 2% for at least 75% of commonly occupied areas. Glazing buildings is critical to ensuring their sustainability. Thus, a building's environmental quality is achieved through a minimum glazing percentage in most areas of new constructions and buildings.