Water

Environment
Published: 17 December 2018

Integrating measures for water management and conservation including the collection, treatment and reuse of water; water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) that ensures that urban water management is sensitive to natural hydrological and ecological cycles; and addressing building water requirements in life cycle terms (embodied water).

Further resources

See Environment case study QUT Peter Coaldrake Education Precinct, for information on how bioretention basins were integrated into garden beds. 

QUT Peter Coaldrake Education Precinct
QUT Peter Coaldrake Education Precinct by Wilson Architects and Henning Larsen Architects (Image: Christopher Frederick Jones) Traditional land owners: The Turrbal Tribe

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