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Environmental Assessment Systems for Commercial Buildings [Tucker, CSIRO] 2001-006-B

Project participants and team members

 

Selwyn Tucker

Bovis Lend Lease

Caroline Noller

Woods Bagot

Carolyn Mitchell

Australian Building Codes Board

Brian Ashe

Building Commission

Rob Enker

Qld Dept of Public Works

Dale Gilbert, Del Jones, Teng Hee Tan

CSIRO

Michael Ambrose, Robin Drogemuller, David Johnston, Stephen McFallan, Grace Mitchell, Lidia Morawska,Peter Newton, Selwyn Tucker- Project Leader, Phillipa Watson

Queensland University of Technology

John Bell, Nur Demirbilek, Jay Yang

University of Western Sydney

Graham Miller

Central Node

Melissa James, Ron Sharpe

Project description

The principal drivers for building design in Australia continue to be short-term cost related not lifetime environmental factors. Most developed countries, including Australia, have now initiated voluntary environmental rating schemes for building design; however Australia is not yet meeting best practice standards in this area. This project combines life cycle assessment, whole of life costing and whole of life performance assessment to develop a suite of CAD-integrated cost and environmental assessment (eco-efficiency) tools for commercial buildings that can enhance the decision-making process among Architecture/Engineering/Construction professionals and deliver superior built environment outcomes. Benchmark data derived from this project will be applied initially in industry partner projects. It is expected that this eco-efficiency assessment tool and associated databases will become the nominated system for providing a rating assessment of commercial buildings in all Australian jurisdictions.*

A national building products inventory (Refereed conference paper)
Towardsbuilding a sustainability assessment framework (Refereed conference paper)
Identification of key environmental issues for building materials (Refereed conference paper)
Integrated eco-efficiency assessment of commercial buildings (Refereed conference paper)
LCADesign an integrated approach to auto eco assessment (Refereed conference paper)
Life cycle inventory for Australian building materials (Refereed conference paper)
Selection methods for sustainable buildings (Refereed conference paper)
Are Australian building eco-assessment tools meeting stakeholder decision making needs (Refereed conference paper)
Redefining life cycle for a building sustainability assessment framework (Refereed conference paper - abstract)
 
International review of environmental assessment tools and databases (Project report)
Environmental assessment for commercial buildings: Stakeholder requirements and tool characteristics (Project report)
A review of LCADesign (Project report)
 
LCADesign (Brochure)