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

The careful selection of building materials and their use in design has the potential to reduce life-cycle environmental impacts and contribute to ...

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

Strategies and systems for creating, implementing, managing and maintaining sustainable and regenerative outcomes.

This note provides a background introduction to the lost art of designing for natural ventilation, and discusses some of the more useful rules of ...

The adaptive model of thermal comfort shifts attention from engineered comfort solutions to architectural ones. As the concept of adaptive comfort ...

The physical destruction accompanying disasters typically creates an urgency to rebuild and help survivors get back on track. There are inspiring ...

This note is directed to one major aspect of the comfort of building occupants – namely, thermal comfort. Even though it may be difficult to isolate ...

The disassembly of buildings to recover materials and components for future reuse is not widely practiced in the modern construction industry. This ...

The way we form our urban areas, the spaces they create and the values they embody, have a profound effect on the quality of people’s lives. Urban ...