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Adaptive comfort: passive design for active occupants

Published: 30 September 2011 | Edited: 16 November 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in November 2018. The adaptive model of thermal comfort shifts attention from engineered comfort solutions to architectural ones. As the concept of adaptive comfort displaces the old static model, ...

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Sustainable water use – efficient then effective

Published: 31 August 2005

Sustainable water systems will meet water service needs at the lowest cost to society and with the lowest environmental impact through maximising water use efficiency first, then maximising water use effectiveness, optimally matching the quality of ...

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Living walls – a way to green the built environment

Published: 31 August 2008 | Edited: 17 September 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in September 2018. Green or living walls is an emerging technology that integrates vegetation into the built environment.  This paper looks at the benefits that living walls can offer to our built ...

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Embodied carbon in buildings

Published: 5 July 2023

Read time: 25 minutes There has been a tendency to focus on energy efficiency measures when reducing building-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – that is reducing heating, cooling, lighting and ventilation energy needs. However, the GHG ...

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QUT Peter Coaldrake Education Precinct

Published: 7 December 2022

Read time: 16 minutes T he Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Peter Coaldrake Education Precinct, designed by Wilson Architects and Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects, is a dedicated teaching and learning facility for the Faculty of ...

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Emerging technologies in ventilation

Published: 30 November 2002

Innovation in ventilation systems is becoming an increasingly popular and targeted topic of architectural discourse. Architects, consultants and contractors are introducing new products and proposing new systems, subject to client requests for an ...

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Construction details for cool temperate climates

Published: 31 December 2012

This note was prepared by Robert McGregor of the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Solar Energy Society (AuSES). It outlines the appropriate detailing for Tasmania’s cool temperate climate, and covers cold bridging, reverse brick veneer, ...

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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 maintain thermal comfort and reduce operational energy requirements. Includes passive design and ...

Proponents of energy efficiency and sustainability in the built environment have always understood the importance of the facade as a key element for a building to achieve these aims.  In recent times the multiple roles played by the facade in ...

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Phase change materials – overview

Published: 31 August 2006 | Edited: 30 August 2018

This note was reviewed in August 2018 and retained for legacy. This paper introduces phase change materials (PCMs) as an alternative energy storage methodology to current latent heat exchange systems commonly used in buildings such as thermal mass.

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