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Water sensitive urban design in the Melbourne Docklands – raingardens and bioretention tree pits

Published: 29 February 2008 | Edited: 23 October 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in October 2018. This paper describes water sensitive urban design (WSUD) initiatives in Melbourne ...

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Water sensitive urban design in the Melbourne Docklands – wetlands, storage and reuse system

Published: 29 February 2008 | Edited: 23 October 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in October 2018. This report describes water sensitive urban design (WSUD) initiatives in the ...

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Water sensitive urban design – the journey thus far

Published: 31 August 2007

This paper was first published in the Australian Journal of Water Resources, and is reprinted with the kind permission of Engineers Australia. This ...

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This paper provides a critique of the Water sensitive urban design (WSUD) paradigm by discussing its congruence with an established sustainable ...

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On-site domestic wastewater treatment and reuse

Published: 28 February 2005

This note includes descriptions of the different systems used for the on-site treatment and disposal/reuse of domestic wastewaters from residential ...

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Embodied water in construction

Published: 1 December 2022

Read time: 18 minutes Water is necessary for human survival, but it is also a key ingredient in the production of construction projects. Increasing ...

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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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Ventilation

Published: 17 December 2018

Design strategies that may include natural, mechanical and mixed-mode forms of ventilation and/or passive cooling measures to meet thermal comfort, ...

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Life cycle energy analysis

Published: 31 March 2012 | Edited: 2 November 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in November 2018. Life cycle energy analysis (LCEA) is a method of assessing both the operational ...

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Designing, managing and retrofitting non-residential buildings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Published: 30 August 2000 | Edited: 31 August 2005

This note, originally published in August 2000, was reviewed by Stephen Pupilli in June 2005. Energy consumption related to Australia's ...

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