ABSTRACT
Ecodesign nevertheless involves more than a simple set of tools. It responds to a number of basic principles that need to be applied in the specific case of production and our living environment. Increasing amounts of greenhouse gases resulting from industrial activity are accumulating, reducing the earth’s protection from the sun’s rays. The issue is the object of scientific discussion, yet manifestations of the phenomenon are multiplying in the form of perturbed sea currents, cyclones, dwindling ice caps, gradually shrinking mountain glaciers, and increasing desertification. The environmental issues set out directly concern the ecosystem as an ecological system. However, an additional question concerns the means of remediation, or in other words the capacities to create a regulation that could put a stop to the causes of imbalance. Construction is at the heart of the different environmental issues envisaged from a societal point of view. Ecodesign is based on the idea that buildings operate as systems, transforming inflows into outflows.
