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A summary of urban assessment tools for application in Australia
Published: 29 February 2016 | Edited: 28 August 2018This note was reviewed and approved for currency in August 2018. With increasing world population, urbanization, and climatic changes impacting ...
Design for eco-services – Part A environmental services
Published: 30 November 2009 | Edited: 5 September 2018This note was reviewed and approved for currency by the Author in September 2018. Without the virtually free services of nature like clean air and ...
Non-residential sustainable building rating tools in Australia
Published: 12 September 2024Issue 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 ...
Designing for place that considers the environmental characteristics specific to the locale such as climate, topography, vistas, soils, ecology and ...
Building design and the selection of materials, appliances, equipment and technologies can all contribute to the minimisation of both operational and ...
Read time: 4 minutes The careful selection of building materials and products and their use in design has the potential to reduce life-cycle ...
Strategies and systems for creating, implementing, managing and maintaining sustainable and regenerative outcomes. Read more - introductory note block ...
Individual built projects critically examined in terms of their actual performance against various social, economic and environmental criteria.
This glossary has been reviewed and updated by the Environment Advisory Group for the 2021 edition, with the assistance and input of numerous members ...