Read time: 25 minutes The residential building sector is a significant contributor to carbon footprint and climate change. This is primarily due to ...

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in August 2018.  With increasing world population, urbanization, and climatic changes impacting ...

Issue 04 September 2024  Read time: 34 minutes Abstract The buildings that we design, build and occupy can be evaluated and benchmarked with regard ...

This note was reviewed and approved for currency by the Author in September 2018. Without the virtually free services of nature like clean air and ...

Designing for place that considers the environmental characteristics specific to the locale such as climate, topography, vistas, soils, ecology and ...

Building design and the selection of materials, appliances, equipment and technologies can all contribute to the minimisation of both operational and ...

Read time: 4 minutes The careful selection of building materials and products and their use in design has the potential to reduce life-cycle ...

Strategies and systems for creating, implementing, managing and maintaining sustainable and regenerative outcomes. Read more - introductory note block ...

Individual built projects critically examined in terms of their actual performance against various social, economic and environmental criteria.

This glossary has been reviewed and updated by the Environment Advisory Group for the 2021 edition, with the assistance and input of numerous members ...