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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.*