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    Architecture meets horticulture
    Architecture meets horticulture

    Warren McLaren explores some interesting and vertical methods for designing food production into our urban environments.


    Design firm behind Green Star marks up a decade
    Design firm behind Green Star marks up a decade

    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.


    Passivhaus gets active Downunder
    Passivhaus gets active Downunder

    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.


    7 ways to build with grass
    7 ways to build with grass

    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.


    Less is more in building size
    Less is more in building size

    Warren McLaren looks into the seemingly not-so-obvious benefits of building smaller.


    Environ: Green Star Superstars
    Environ: Green Star Superstars

    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.


    What does a green floor look like?
    What does a green floor look like?

    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.


    All Aboard: Transit Oriented Development
    All Aboard: Transit Oriented Development

    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.


    Eco-labelling: 7 stand out schemes

    There’s no shortage of schemes out there for building product specifiers seeking out environmentally preferred materials and products.


    Energy Efficiency: The Final Frontier
    Energy Efficiency: The Final Frontier

    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.


    A housing eco-challenge
    A housing eco-challenge

    Warren McLaren reports on the eco challenge currently being carried out in Sydney.


    8 karma chameleons
    8 karma chameleons

    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.


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