This note follows on from the note: The environmental impact of building materials. It outlines Australian and international responses to materials ...

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in August 2018. Tougher economic times have led to an increasing scrutiny of sustainability ...

Read time: 20 minutes Decades of advocacy to achieve progress toward sustainable outcomes have highlighted an urgent need to reframe our ...

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in October 2018. In the Australian subtropics, high rainfall, warm weather and humidity present ...

Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world with many architectural and engineering benefits, but also with a high capacity to ...

The refurbishment of Trevor Pearcey House for the new Australian Ethical Investment Headquarters was designed by Collard Clarke Jackson Architects ...

Biodiversity, the variety of life on earth, is required for the health of the natural environment and the continuation of the human species.  Though ...

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in September 2018. Green or living walls is an emerging technology that integrates vegetation into ...

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in August 2018.  This note provides a background introduction to the lost art of designing for ...

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in October 2018. Built environments are an incarnation of our mental landscapes.  In Western culture ...