TTI Global Impact Awards
Sustainable Living & Real Estate: Our Awards Areas and Targets
Sustainable communities are starting to develop all across the world and sustainable cities are rising too. The solutions to some of the greatest issues facing humans such as poverty, climate change, healthcare and education will be found in new forms of leading our day-to-day lives with the goal of decarbonizing local economies and enable new standards of living.
The “Sustainable Living & Real Estate” category of the TTI Global Impact Awards looks at self-sustaining forms of living on both an environmental level and a community level, integrating impact targets across all areas of day-to-day life.
The award winner for 2022: Africa GreenTec - holistic system for sustainable electricity production and use
1. Self-Sustaining Communities - Environmental Level
Target: Increase the share of renewable energy in the energy mix (and reduce the dependence on fossil fuels); enhance resource efficiency and conservation
→ Metric: Use/implementation of clean energy generation plants
Target: Double the rate of energy efficiency by 2030; reduction in energy-use in construction and maintenance built environment
→ Metric: Improved energy efficiency in buildings (e.g. solar systems, LED lighting, use of energy management systems, smart metering)
Target: Greener cities
→ Metric: Floor space of green real-estate (m2), i.e. integration of trees and plants
Target: Reduce the environmental impact of waste
→ Metric: Waste minimalization; % recycled waste of overall disposal
Target: Reduction in pollution and generation of greenhouse gases (GHG); 35% of carbon emissions reduction by 2030
→ Metric: Construction of transit systems to reduce automobile use
Target: Construction of smart cities
→ Metric: Incorporating smart sensors into built environment for data collection
→ Metric: Computation and data management systems integrated into environment and infrastructure systems
Target: Reduction of water pollution
→ Metric: Prevention of microplastics from industrial assets from entering the ocean
Target: Good management of city water systems and water-discharge related impacts
→ Metric: Improvement of water disposal and management systems
Target: Sustainable transport systems
→ Metric: Promoting and provision of sustainable transport
→ Metric: Land use planning in cities; Alternative transport developments constructed around a key transport hub
→ Metric: Making existing transport modes sustainable (e.g. lightweighting, and new fuel and engine technologies)
2. Self-Sustaining Communities - Community Level
Target: Efficient infrastructure and workflows
→ Metric: Computation and data communication embedded in all environment and infrastructure systems (use of Data technology and IoT)
Target: Increase in rural infrastructure
→ Metric: Road development to ensure appropriate connection to urban areas
Target: Improvement of water quality
→ Metric: Halve the proportion of untreated wastewater; appropriate treatment of domestic and industrial wastewater flows