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Browse Fact Sheets by development phase: Feasability

Mix of Transport Modes for Different Tasks

  • Access and Transport
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Travel patterns in cities are complex, varying with space, time and travel purpose. But all travel uses energy, utilises space and time (often in short supply in cities) and creates environmental and other externalities such as pollution, noise, accidents and congestion.

 

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Indigenous Flora and Fauna

  • Site Ecology
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Indigenous flora and fauna needs to be considered/managed as a primary development planning stage, at the beginning of conceptualisation of a development project.

 
 

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Soil Management

  • Site Ecology
  • Estate Design
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Soil and its management is a fundamental part of any development project. Soil type, structure, and chemistry all need to be given due consideration – at the design stage, during development works, and following completion, in order to ensure that environmental values are not compromised, that contaminated or particularly reactive soils are not disturbed in such a way as to harm the environment, and that development features including landscaping, buildings, dwellings and structures are not compromised by changes to soil characteristics, such as moisture content, or soil chemistry.

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Sense of place and community ownership

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

This fact sheet examines the issues of sense of place using a case study of various aspects of the Ellenbrook development in Western Australia. This development has won several prestigious awards for its design and community engagement processes and serves as a role model for greenfield development projects in Australia.

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Cohousing

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Cohousing is a major strategic category of the movement back to community known as ‘Intentional Community’. Both the community and the intention are critical to understanding and implementing such projects.

 

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Whole of life costing

  • Site Ecology
  • Materials and Recycling
  • Sustainablity Management
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    • 2 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Principally, WLC can be characterised as a systematic approach balancing capital with revenue costs to achieve an optimum solution over a construction’s whole life. Costs include internal resources, they also include risk allowances as required; flexibility (predicted alterations for known change in business requirements, for example), repair costs and the costs relating to sustainability and health and safety aspects.

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Heritage and Culture

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

This fact sheet provides information on how heritage issues may relate to your development. It addresses; what is heritage?; why heritage is important; how to determine what aspects of heritage are important; what if my site is on a heritage list or register?; and how to manage heritage in your development.

 

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Infrastructure

  • Estate Design
  • Access and Transport
  • Water Management
  • Energy Management
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Infrastructure is the systems that make urban places function. It is defined in the Penguin and Macquarie Dictionary of Economics & Finance as ‘the network of services in a society which are essential for its cohesion and for the efficient functioning of the economy…’


 

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Mobility Management: Design for Active Transport

  • Access and Transport
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

This Fact Sheet provides suggestions and is intended to advise how residential development participants can help deliver better environments for walking, cycling and using public transport. Ideally, new developments have viable access and transport options are always a viable choice, so transport impacts are lessened throughout the life of developments.

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Energy efficiency - influence of design

  • Estate Design
  • Energy Management
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

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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