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Biodiversity in urban developments

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• Fact Sheet
• by Philip Roetman
• posted 15 Jul 2008

Urban biodiversity exists in parks, street plantings, private gardens, vacant lots and along waterways. With development, urban environments can change quickly and dramatically because they are designed, constructed, managed and controlled by humans. It is important to understand the impacts and interactions of humans, the built form, and residual and emergent biodiversity.

 

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• Site Ecology, Estate Design, Water Management, Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation,
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Energy efficiency - influence of design

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• by Peter Droege
• posted 17 Jun 2008

Energy is money. Energy efficiency is not only a way of conserving energy: it is also fundamental to good and profitable project development and design in a broader sense. It conserves financial resources over time, and can boost profits. A high degree of efficiency translates into a low level of waste: this simple ratio has wide-ranging benefits in environmental and economic terms, supports the interests of developers, planning agencies, buyers and tenants - and brings tangible advantages to the project approval, marketing and sales processes.

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