Program overview | Projects 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 |
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.* |
