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Industry Education

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• Fact Sheet
• by Tom Davies
• posted 18 Aug 2008

Creating sustainable developments not only means physically constructing efficient buildings and communities, it also means changing the behaviour of the people that live in, and operate the developments. Developing sustainable communities now and into the future means significant behavioural change at the construction and the occupation phases.

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• Planning, Design,
• Sustainablity Management,
• Developer, Designer,

The Old Leura Dairy, Blue Mountains

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• Brief Case Study
• by Tom Davies
• posted 24 Jul 2008

The Old Leura dairy is constructed from in excess of 90% reclaimed materials. The owner builder Michael Hennessey describes the complex of buildings as a repository for materials. The materials have been sourced from local reclamation yards and from demolition sites throughout the Blue Mountains. Materials come from old bridges, hardwood weatherboards that are over 100 years old, and even old sheep shearing sheds.

This end view shows how bridging timbers, weatherboards, bricks, windows and roofing material have been reclaimed and reused.

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The Steel House (Modabode)

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• Brief Case Study
• by Tom Davies
• posted 24 Jul 2008

The Modabode steel house is an excellent example of prefabrication and delivery to site to reduce waste and construction time. The house can also be easily reconfigured providing a flexible design for changing needs and can be deconstructed at the end of life.

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• Design, Construction,
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Flexible Design for Deconstruction and Reuse

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• by Tom Davies
• posted 23 Jul 2008

Flexible Design for Deconstruction and Reuse is about reducing environmental impacts by lengthening the life cycle of the building and the materials and products used in the building. In this way there are two aspects, a flexible design of the building itself; allowing for changing use over time, and secondly a design that enables optimal resource recovery at the end of life.
 

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