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Environment

A summary of urban assessment tools for application in Australia

Published: 29 February 2016 | Edited: 28 August 2018

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

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Design for eco-services – Part A environmental services

Published: 30 November 2009 | Edited: 5 September 2018

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 ...

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Non-residential sustainable building rating tools in Australia

Published: 12 September 2024

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

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

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Place

Published: 17 December 2018

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

Environment

Energy

Published: 17 December 2018

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

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Materials

Published: 11 April 2023 | Edited: 16 January 2024

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

Environment

Process

Published: 17 December 2018

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

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Case studies

Published: 17 December 2018

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

Environment

Environment glossary

Published: 1 December 2021

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

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