Procurement Sustainable Building Practice

Two aspects will be stressed in the frame of this topic: The Procurement Aspects and the Aspects of Conflict and Dispute Resolution. The Right for Environment - to introduce the following aspects - is not only the consequence of care-taking for Nature as an admirable phenomenon, but also as a source of nearly all what is needed for humankind of today and tomorrow. The legal practises - of course - have not only to fulfIll the current valid laws and guidelines, but they have to be based on an ethic and even altruistic behaviour. Against the background of so many shrinking resources, we have to look for sustainable and renewable sources and have to choose for those building practises which clearly contribute towards sustainability. The important procurement problems can be handled in research as well as practise by the applications of the Material and Energy Choice and Selection Method, which is summarised in a Matrix. This Matrix - as a rule of thumb - can help to choose consciously concerning the bigger or lesser effects and side effects which sooner or later will go hand in hand with the choosen practises and technologies. Since building is teamwork, always - except an hermit alone builds for himself - Conflict and Dispute Resolution is most important. The Method Holistic Participation - MHP - serves this purpose excellently and can be applied for problem solving of nearly each complex task, in which different, even opposing parties will participate. Based on very old experiences, firstly applied by Konrad Wachsmann and Walter Gropius in Building Technology in the fourties and further developed by the author, it is possible to use this method effectively in order to reach common solutions mainly by consultation and in consensus. Beside the importance of Legal and Procurement Practices and the Right for Environment it will at least be necessary to consider Management as a key to get the' things done. The Indoor Climate as the reason wherefore we build and Materials and Technologies, which are strongly related to procurement problems, which are 'responsible' for the materialisation and realisation as well - have to be taken in consideration. Together with a responsible view on those fields, it will be a 'conditio sine qua non', to handle the absolute principle of care-taking in legal and procurement practises, considering the whole of humankind in the radically smaller getting world.