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AUGENBROE, Godfried. Sustainability: the force that tame exponentialoidgrowth and emissions in construction. In: ENCONTRO LATINO AMERICANO DE GESTIÓN Y ECONOMÍA DE LA CONTRUCCIÓN, 2., 2008, Santiago. Anais… Santiago, 2008.
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The construction industry is a major contributor to emissions and pollution and is a main world resource consumer. Because of this, the industry is formulating short and long-term sustainability targets. Europe has issued long-term objectives that require huge adaptations by the industry (Agenda 21). Voluntary incentive programs such as LEED, and all of the presently conceived conservation, green and highperformance sustainable measures including Carbon Trading strategies, even if adopted globally, are vastly insufficient to achieve the ‘necessary targets’ in a timely manner because of the nature of construction growth trends. The trends are analyzed by “exponentialoids” a term introduced by García acca (1989) to differentiate it from an exponential. An exponential is an algorithm with limited variables, whereas an exponentialoid contains multiple complex forces. Construction has experienced a logarithmic growth that is caused by complex forces that did not take into account logarithmic rise in numbers and long-term horizons. The author research interest is in formalizing the dynamics between the forces that affect the built environment with the concept of sustainability. The concept of sustainability is recasted in light of exponentialoids as a better representation of the magnitude and type of growth in resource consumption and emissions generation.

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