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

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Measuring site biodiversity for sustainable development

Published: 31 May 2004

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

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Adaptive comfort: passive design for active occupants

Published: 30 September 2011 | Edited: 16 November 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in November 2018. The adaptive model of thermal comfort shifts attention from engineered comfort ...

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Straw bale construction

Published: 30 November 2003 | Edited: 4 September 2018

This note was reviewed in September 2018 and retained for legacy. This note, originally published in November 1996, was reviewed by Harry Partridge ...

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Energy saving design

Published: 17 December 2018

An integrated building design approach which considers a building’s orientation, layout, form and materials with respect to climatic conditions to ...

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Best practice in lighting — quality and sustainability

Published: 31 August 2004

This note has been written to show firstly, where lighting design fits into the overall sustainability context, and secondly, to show how lighting ...

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Enabling play friendly places

Published: 31 August 2016 | Edited: 29 August 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in August 2018. A balanced mix of play activities is critical to a child’s development. However for ...

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David Baggs looks at the role of the built environment in our un-sustainability and explores the full spectrum of strategies and solutions as to how ...

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Architects and copyright

Published: 10 March 2021 | Edited: 22 December 2022

Read time: 10 minutes Copyright protects specific categories of works, one of which is artistic works. Architectural drawings, models of buildings, ...

Project

Facilities management

Published: 4 October 2017

Facilities management has adapted processes developed by other professions and enterprises for its own use. These processes include quality ...

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