World Standards Day Message 14 October 2008 Intelligent and Sustainable Buildings

Our increasingly urban environment sees new con-struction forging ahead in developed and developing coun-tries around the world.The work is essential to meet theneeds of a world population that has more than doubledsince 1950.Not surprisingly,therefore,the building and con-struction sector has grown into one of the largest global in-dustries with immense consequences for all three dimen-sions of sustainable development—economic,social andenvironmental.