Sustainability: meeting today’s needs

Ruwan HARISCHANDRA

Sustainability is a word that is widely used in many fields nowadays. It defines as follows in the Oxford dictionary of environment (2007) “A concept that is used to describe community and economic development in terms of meeting the needs of the present compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Being a nation of moving towards the fast economical growth we have to pay much more attention to the concept of sustainability. The time has reached to think about it. Flood ruins the life of the people in various places in Sri Lanka. We report the deaths and damages. Raise funds to help the victims. Then the saga is over. But we did not think what the cause was. Once again environmental issues have come to the platform. We need green buildings and many more. We may think of disasters. How do we face them? We need many more plans. We request that should be done. Are there any green professionals in Sri Lanka to implement the concept of sustainability?

The green building council of Sri Lanka takes initiative to train the professionals in Sri Lanka for green. There was one training session conducted on January 11 this year at Hecter Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute.

The first time in the history the concept of sustainability is widely talked in the field of development. “This course is designed to train industry professionals to perform as green professionals who could lead transformation of the construction industry in Sri Lanka with green building practices to ensure the future wellbeing of our planet,” said the Executive Director of the Green Building Council of Sri Lanka, Lionel Nawagamuwa. "Those who are successful at the case study and the examination will be awarded with the certification GBSL Associated professionals," he added.

The next session will be held in April and now the applications are called for the second programme. The limited number of candidates will be selected for the second session also.

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