For many years, particularly after the 2015 Paris climate change agreement, governments had pushed their agenda on implementing environmental practices across the industries. This includes reducing the amount of waste generation, reusing the waste materials, and recycling the renewable waste streams which altogether leads to the reduction in the global greenhouse gas emission. Construction being one of those industries that is always criticized for being one of the most impactful industries with a high human intervention in natural ecosystems. We as the workers in this industry extract natural resources, change the landscapes, build giant structures such as dams, highways, canals, etc. These changes on the surface of the earth indeed come at a cost if aren't studied thoroughly. So, that is why in the recent years, universities established environmental studies in construction-related courses. Because we don't want our cities to be flooded or prone to earthquakes, landslides, which are some of the causes of not considering the nature's response to our human activities. 

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