Built By DAO's commitment to sustainability is foundational—not an afterthought, but embedded in every aspect of how we build, operate, and grow.
Material recovery
Green construction
Net-zero goals
Local benefit
🎯 Mission: Regenerative development that restores ecosystems and communities
🌿 Principle: Build in ways that create lasting value, not lasting harm
We go beyond "doing less harm" to actively restore:
Extract resources
Minimize extraction
Restore resources
Create waste
Reduce waste
Eliminate waste
Deplete ecosystems
Limit impact
Restore ecosystems
Extract community wealth
Less extraction
Build community wealth
🏗️ Buildings are resources
Design for disassembly
♻️ Waste is a design flaw
Circular material flows
🌍 Climate requires action
Carbon-negative goals
👥 Communities matter
Local benefit priority
🔵 Now
90% waste diversion
🟡 3 years
Net-zero operations
🟠 5 years
Carbon-negative buildings
🔴 10 years
Fully circular material system
🗑️ 600M tons C&D waste/year
Material recovery systems
🔥 40% energy from buildings
Net-zero construction
💨 8% CO2 from cement
Salvaged materials
🏚️ Inefficient existing stock
Deep energy retrofits
♻️ Keep materials in use
Salvage, repair, reuse
📦 Design for disassembly
Future recovery
🚫 Eliminate waste
System design
🌿 Regenerate systems
Restore, don't deplete
1️⃣ Avoid
Reuse existing buildings
2️⃣ Reduce
Less material, efficient design
3️⃣ Replace
Low-carbon alternatives
4️⃣ Offset
Only as last resort
🔧 Materials
Salvage from local sites
👥 Labor
Train and hire locally
💵 Spending
Local suppliers first
🌱 Benefit
Community wealth building
🏠 Indoor air quality
Low-VOC materials
💡 Daylight
Natural light design
🌡️ Comfort
Passive design
🌿 Biophilia
Nature connection
🎯 90%
Deconstruction projects
🎯 80%
Renovation projects
🎯 Zero
Foundry operations waste
🎯 50% salvaged in new construction
Now
🎯 75% sustainable materials
3 years
🎯 100% transparent supply chain
5 years
🎯 Net-zero
All new construction
🎯 50% reduction
Retrofit projects
🎯 100% renewable
DAO operations
🎯 Measure
All projects now
🎯 Reduce 50%
🎯 Net-negative
10 years
🎯 30% reduction
Below baseline
🎯 Rainwater
All new projects
🎯 Native landscaping
All properties
📐 Concept
Circular economy principles
📋 Planning
Material sourcing strategy
🏗️ Design
Passive, efficient systems
📊 Specification
Sustainable materials
🔧 Salvage first
Check material inventory
♻️ Waste sorting
On-site separation
📦 Material tracking
Chain of custody
📊 Reporting
Environmental metrics
⚡ Energy
Monitor and optimize
💧 Water
Track and reduce
🗑️ Waste
Recycle, compost
🌿 Grounds
Native, sustainable
🌱 Basic
Circular economy intro
♻️ Intermediate
🏗️ Advanced
Green building practices
📜 Certification
LEED, Passive House
♻️ Waste diversion rate
Per project
💨 Carbon footprint
⚡ Energy performance
Monthly
💧 Water use
📦 Material sourcing
📊 Project sustainability
Stakeholders
📈 Quarterly metrics
All members
Quarterly
📋 Annual review
Public
Annually
🌿 Sustainability WG
Standards, tracking
🏛️ Governance
Policy approval
👥 All members
Implementation
📊 Metric review
🔧 Process refinement
Ongoing
📚 Best practice research
🎯 Goal adjustment
How we rate projects:
♻️ Materials
30%
Salvaged %, sustainable %, local
25%
Efficiency, renewables, net-zero
15%
Conservation, harvesting
🌿 Site
Ecosystem, landscaping
👥 Community
Local benefit, health
Rating scale:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Regenerative
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent
⭐⭐⭐ Good
⭐⭐ Meeting standards
⭐ Needs improvement
We commit to building in ways that:
♻️ Keep materials in productive use
🌿 Restore rather than deplete
👥 Benefit communities
🌍 Address climate change
Last updated 15 days ago
Extract → Make → Use → Dispose ❌ Recover → Process → Use → Recover ✅