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Sustainable Construction & Building Materials What does sustainable mean? There is no universally agreed definition of sustainability. In fact, there are many different viewpoints on this concept and on how it can be achieved. Etymologically, the word sustainability comes from sustainable + ity. And sustainable is, for instance, a composition of sustain + able. So if we start from the beginning, to <sustain> means “give support to”, “to hold up”, “to bear” or to “keep up”. What is sustainability, then? Sustainable is an adjective for something that is able to be sustained, i.e, something that is “bearable” and “capable of...