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Design of Appropriately Constructed Facilities to Cope With Global Warming;Current best estimates forecast only minor warming in the equatorial regions including India while large temperature rises are now occurring in the polar regions. ;NOTE: India has very low surface temperature increase between 1976 and 2001.;Warming World;There are many examples of this with perhaps the most serious in the Arctic where the organic rich permafrost is thawing, and their decay will cause release of green house gases that in turn cause global warming. If not now, eventually the process becomes self sustaining without input from us.;To avert disaster, global warming caused mainly by greenhouse gases must be reduced everywhere in all possible ways. Excessive behavior of humans is the main cause but fortunately people can change their ways quickly, as witness: USSR morphing into separate countries. Reduction of acid rain in eastern North America. Elimination of DDT in Canada in 1957. Elimination of lead in gasoline in Canada and the US. Mandating sustainable forest usage in most of the world. ;As producers of construction materials we have: Reduced carbon dioxide emission from cement manufacture by up to 50% by replacing cement with fly ash, slag and silica fume. Recycled metals with 60% of steel being made from scrap. Perfected the art of recycled asphalt. Through the use of insulation and green roofs reduced the energy required for heating and cooling buildings. Developed an accounting procedure to evaluate the carbon foot print of our constructed facilities.;Unfortunately, as designers of constructed facilities, we have not come up with new design concepts that reflect the needs of a world under stress. This includes strategies to cope with rising sea levels and to provide affordable housing and effective public transportation.;A Canadian cement company had this slogan bravely stated in bold red letters on the bottom of its correspondence, “CONCRETE FOR PERMANENCE”. In