JNA: Call to integrate climate issues into urban and architectural design

The President of the National Council of the Order of Architects (CNOA), Chakib Benabdellah, called on Tuesday in Fez to integrate climate issues into urban and architectural design. This is becoming an “absolute necessity,” he said at the opening of the 39th National Architects Day, which had the theme “The Citizen in Dealing with Climate Change: Energy and Water Issues.”

Mr. Benabdellah stressed the need to highlight the role that the architect must play in the face of the problem of climate change. “The architect, much more than an interior designer, is an important actor in this ecological transition and his civic role must be expressed in important ways in this context where energy and water issues are central.”he noted, on this day under the patronage of HM King Mohammed VI. initiated.

The President of the CNOA further emphasized that this role must be manifested “in particular through the control of the energy of buildings through the design of buildings with high energy efficiency favoring renewable energies, the selection of materials by favoring local products with a low environmental impact and the… . “Use of passive strategies such as orientation and natural ventilation”.

“The architect can also integrate water recovery and treatment into the design of rain collection systems and water treatment to reduce pressure on water resources.”he added.