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This note was reviewed and approved for currency in November 2018. While architects and planners don’t seek to disadvantage communities, the ...
'Sustainable Urbanism' encompasses Australian urban design and transportation practices that seek to create vibrant, liveable communities. This ...
As Australia faces a number of challenges, including water shortages, rising fuel costs, expanding population and insufficient land, resources and ...
Permaculture - Part A - Introduction and urban farming
Published: 28 February 2010 | Edited: 28 November 2018This note was reviewed and approved for currency in November 2018. This paper is the first of a two part paper intended to introduce the concept of ...
Living walls – a way to green the built environment
Published: 31 August 2008 | Edited: 17 September 2018This note was reviewed and approved for currency in September 2018. Green or living walls is an emerging technology that integrates vegetation into ...
Biodiversity, the variety of life on earth, is required for the health of the natural environment and the continuation of the human species. Though ...
Read time: 8 minutes As part of the building permit/consent process, when carrying out building work on or near title boundaries certain state and ...
Read time: 5 minutes The National Construction Code (NCC) is a performance-based code and while it defines what is Deemed-to-Satisfy (DtS), an ...
This note, GEN 3, was originally published in 1995 and authored by Richard Lamb. The note was reviewed in August 2001 and the original paper needed ...
Read time: 28 minutes The Indigenous Ecosystem Corridors and Nodes Project (IEC+N) was launched in 2016 by the International Union of Architects (UIA ...