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Water Demand Management

  • Water Management
  • Sustainablity Management
    • Content rating:
    • 2 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

The drive for more efficient use of water through demand management measures has focused on the provision of service.

 

 

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Walkable neighbourhoods

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

Walkable neighbourhoods have implications for sustainability because developments that are walkable reduce incentives to drive, conserve scarce resources, and lower environmental impacts.

Co-author: Leah Mason

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Industry Education

  • Sustainablity Management
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

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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Possible effects on buildings through climate change

  • Estate Design
  • Climate Change Adaption
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Many buildings erected today will still be in use in 40 – 60 years.  It is therefore important to consider the likely effect of climate changes expected over this period on the structure and functionality of buildings being built now.

 

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Cohousing

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
    • Content rating:
    • 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
    • Content rating:
    • 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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Housing Mix

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

A sustainable community is a diverse one, accommodating people of different life stages, incomes, and household composition.  For instance, a nuclear family is likely to prefer a larger dwelling with several bedrooms and access to private open space; a university student may seek shared accommodation; a young single professional may require a small apartment, while an elderly couple may seek an easy care unit within a retirement village.  All of these groups will have very strong preferences for the location their homes – some will prefer the inner city while others may more space in an outer suburban area.

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Community Engagement

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

This fact sheet is designed to help small to medium-sized builders and developers find appropriate ways of engaging with communities about their proposed sustainable developments, while taking into account the complexity of sustainability options. It’s about how to get started, rather than the whole community engagement process with all the detailed planning.

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Successful Public Spaces

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

The purpose of this factsheet is to describe the basic principles and qualities of successful public places. The principles and dimensions are covered in this introduction whilst the qualities are discussed in the contexts of key issues and best practice processes within the project development phases.
 

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Landscaping Public Areas

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

Developers need to think about the public landscape from a whole of project perspective early on during the development process. This will help to take advantage of any site specific qualities or characteristics and plan for their protection or enhancement. Such qualities or characteristics may include vegetation, soil health, and site hydrology.
 

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