In March 2017, an opinion article, in both Romanian and English, was published on the online specialist portal Energynomics.ro, co-written with architect colleagues Mădălina Zaharia and Florin Enache. In the text, alongside my colleagues, I attempted to demonstrate the intrinsic link between the sustainable design of buildings and their behavior and consumption of energy and other resources, including throughout their operational life, and the context of material recovery at the end of the building\’s life.