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Generally, building facilities always burden the environment with load from their planning and
construction to operation and scrapping. It is necessary to take steps for reducing the
environmental load throughout the whole life cycle of building facilities.
MLIT is pressing forward with the coordination of "Environmentally Friendly Government Building
(Green Government Building)" as the government buildings, which will become the models
responding to the environmental preservation measures in Japan's architectural field.
(3) Efforts shall be made to use efficient, durable facilities, equipment, and systems that are easy
to maintain, manage, and replace.
3.4 Use of Eco-Materials
(1) Efforts shall be made to use natural materials with a low environmental load.
(2) Efforts shall be made to ensure the optimal usage of frames made of lumber from tropical
forests in light of the deterioration of such forests.
(3) Efforts shall be made to reuse construction by-products and to use recycled materials.
(4) Efforts shall be made to use module materials and materials that are easy to dismantle so that
it is easy to replace individual materials and pieces of equipment.
3.5 Appropriate Utilization and Appropriate Disposal of Waste
(1) Efforts shall be made to reduce the amount of construction by-products and to reuse such byproducts.
(2) Efforts shall be made to limit the use of materials and equipment that contain substances with
a high environmental load, and to appropriately recover such materials and equipment.
(3) Efforts shall be made to incorporate systems that appropriately dispose of waste that is
produced in the operation of the facilities.