DESIGN LIGHTLY
By Low Impact Development Consulting
SIMPLE SUSTAINABILITY - FOR DESIGNERS AND CLIENTS
Built environment sustainability tips and and materials library
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Ensure your projects are working better for the environment, the next generation, and your client.
SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPTS +
MATERIALS LIBRARY +
CROWD KNOWLEDGE
SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPTS
This site is all about helping you to incorporate sustainability from Concept Design, through Detailed Design, Documentation, and Construction, as well as encouraging sustainable behaviour during Occupation.
We also discuss concepts that will become the New Normal, ideas we follow for incorporating Sustainability in your Business, government Sustainability Targets, and provide Best Practice project examples and References.
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We hope this helps to provide a strategy for addressing sustainability in your built environment project.
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MATERIALS LIBRARY
Select products that contain recycled content or can be re-used or recycled to encourage a circular rather than linear life of materials.
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Choose products with lower embodied energy, water or greenhouse gas consumption or emissions in their manufacture.
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Choose products reviewed by independent third parties for environmental credentials.
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CROWD KNOWLEDGE
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I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimisation of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place and culture - Glenn Murcutt.
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We welcome feedback on products from the community.
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Images provided by LID Consulting and Steffen Welsch Architects