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Warren McLaren explores some interesting and vertical methods for designing food production into our urban environments.
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As Sustainable Built Environments (SBE) celebrates its achievements, including helping develop Green Star ratings, Jane Toner looks ahead to the next challenges for building designers.
How do you top designing and constructing Australia’s first carbon neutral building, currently the nation’s greenest? You might, Warren McLaren reports, raise the stakes by setting your sights on crafting the world’s tallest apartments built to passivhaus standards.
In an architectural landscape dominated by bricks and concrete, it can be difficult to open one’s mind to other ways of constructing buildings. However, Warren McLaren discovers a few pioneers are using grass as a serious building medium.
Warren McLaren looks into the seemingly not-so-obvious benefits of building smaller.
It's been six years since the first structure scored a six star rating from the Green Building Council of Australia. Warren McLaren takes a quick spin around the country for a squiz at some of our more environmentally progressive buildings.
Australia’s assessment for environmentally-friendly flooring changed in 2010 making it possible for us to better recognise the green achievements of all manner of flooring manufacturers. Danielle Bowling reports.
Warren McLaren explains how the amount of energy associated with getting people to and from a building far exceeds the average building’s energy use, calling into question the most effective way to build for reduced carbon emissions.
There’s no shortage of schemes out there for building product specifiers seeking out environmentally preferred materials and products.
Buildings are particularly important when considering energy efficiency; they consume approximately 20 per cent of all energy used in Australia, according to the Report of the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Energy Efficiency.
Warren McLaren reports on the eco challenge currently being carried out in Sydney.
Setting aside the issue of operational energy used throughout a building’s life cycle, the adaptive reuse of buildings, at least in the construction phase, is creative eco-design. Warren McLaren looks at examples of what is possible when it comes to relifing existing buildings.
