Why Sustainability Sits at the Front of the Siting Decision
For years the industry treated sustainability as something you bolted on after the deal closed: a glossy report, a renewable-energy certificate, a line in the annual filing. That era is over. When a campus needs a gigawatt and a grid can only offer a fraction of it, the questions that decide whether you build at all are questions about clean power, carbon, and water. Faraday's read: sustainability is no longer the conscience of the project. It is the constraint that shapes the map. Learn to see it as a siting driver and the rest of the discipline falls into place.
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Why has sustainability shifted from a reporting activity to a siting driver?
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Because the scarce inputs that determine whether and where a campus can be built — available clean power, grid capacity, carbon exposure, and water — are themselves sustainability questions, so they now shape the site search rather than being documented after it.