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Why Existing Buildings Matter
Sustain
Culture Eliminate
California cities and campuses, and those Carbon
throughout the West, are now mature. Emissions
Reinvesting in existing buildings and The urgency around climate change
infrastructure is fundamental to addressing demands actions which halt new
cultural, financial, and ecological resilience. Leverage emissions immediately. Nothing is more
Resources immediately impactful than avoiding
We are likely to see budget tightening
Likewise, the quality of our communities is in this time of multiple, competing upfront, embodied carbon emissions
enhanced by a thoughtful preservation of priorities for funds. Leveraging deferred of new structures by adapting older
historic fabric. structures for new uses.
maintenance and seismic work as
opportunities for transformations of
spaces and places is smart business.
