Table 2: Sustainable building
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| Australian Green Development Forum (AGDF) | Website: Aims to accelerate the adoption of sustainable practices in the building and development industry through application of voluntary industry guidelines and market-based mechanisms. | Online: http://www.agdf.com.au/ (Australia) |
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| Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO) | Your Home: Design for Lifestyle and the future | Website: A suite of consumer and technical guidance material to encourage the design, construction or renovation of homes to be healthy, comfortable and environmentally sustainable. The associated book contains fact sheets and case studies available on a CD-ROM. | A text (Your Home Your Future Your Lifestyle, 2001) can be ordered online via: (Australia) |
| Bordass W and Leaman A | Usable Buildings | Website: Information on producing safe, comfortable, convenient and healthy improvement of buildings through better design, construction and management. | Online: http://www.usablebuildings.co.uk/ (UK) |
| Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) (2002) | Sustainable Housing Solutions: Transferring good practice from the margins to the mainstream | Website report: Outcomes and practical options for reducing the barriers to and creating a market for sustainable housing solutions. | Online: http://www.bshf.org/publications/index.html (UK) |
| Center for Resourceful Building Technology (CRBT) | Website: Promotes environmentally responsible practices in construction by encouraging technologies which involve the sustainable and efficient use of resources. | Online: http://www.crbt.org/ (USA) |
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| Centre for the Built Environment (CeBE) | Website: Research and projects that contribute to the long term sustainability of the built environment. | Online: http://www.lmu.ac.uk/cebe/ (UK) |
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| City of Austin | Sustainable Building Sourcebook | Website: Developed to complement the Green Building Program. Provides practical information on appropriate building options. | Online: http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook (USA) |
| CSIR Building and Construction Technology | Sustainable Settlement in South Africa | Website: Provides a central point of access to information and organisations in southern Africa that support the creation of a sustainable built environment. | Online: http://www.sustainablesettlement.co.za/ (South Africa) |
| Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources (DINPR) | Website: Contains material on BASIX (the Building Sustainability Index), and Sustainable Urban Settlement Guidelines, as well as guidance on urban design and affordable housing. | Online: http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/index1.html
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| du Plessis C (2002) | Agenda 21 for Sustainable Construction in Developing Countries | Website report: This discussion document represents both a sector response and a developing country response to the challenge of sustainable development building upon the principles of Agenda 21. | Online: http://www.cibworld.nl/pages/begin/Agenda21Book.pdf Hardcopy can ordered from hbekker@csir.co.za (South Africa) |
| Florida Design Initiative (FDI) | Website: This initiative serves to help those who plan and develop communities by using new standards of practice that include the design and construction of high-performance, energy-effi cient, and sustainable buildings and communities. | Online: http://sustainable.state.fl.us/fdi/index.html (USA) |
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| International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) | Website: Provides a global network for exchanging information on building and construction research and innovation. | Online: http://www.cibworld.nl/pages/gi/Default.html#parent (Netherlands) |
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| International Initiative for Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE) | Website: Aims to facilitate and promote the adoption of tools, methods and policies for progress towards a global sustainable built environment. Contains a useful and extensive database - the Sustainable Building Information System. | Online: http://greenbuilding.ca/iisbe/start/iisbe.htm or Online: http://iisbe.org (Canada) |
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| Joseph Rowntree Foundation | The Housing Innovation Site | Website: Provides an extensive resource on topics relating to innovation in housing. Includes information on initiatives and projects both in the UK and worldwide. | Online: http://www.rethinkinghousebuilding.org/ (UK) |
| Kibert C J (Editor) (1999) | Reshaping the Built Environment: Ecology, ethics, and economics | Book: Discusses a new direction for building construction which emphasises a role for natural systems. Provides information on topics including decision making, urban economics, building materials, resource conservation. | Island Press, Washington D.C. (USA) |
| New Buildings Institute (NBI) | Website: Provides on guidelines, codes and standards relating to materials and resources required to produce sustainable buildings. | Online: http://www.newbuildings.org/ (USA) |
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| Oikos | Oikos Green Building Source | Website: Dedicated to sustainable and energy-efficient construction. Its frequently updated newsletter and green building product database is particularly useful. | Online: http://oikos.com/index.lasso (USA) |
| Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center (PNPPRC) | Website: Provides good information and facilitates information exchange for a number of (urban) pollution prevention projects. Other themes dealt with include green building (with calculator tools) and children’s development (e.g. Sustainable Designs for Schools - practical applications (1999). | Online: http://www.pprc.org/pubs/greencon/index.cfm http://www.pprc.org/pubs/schools/index.cfm (USA) |
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| Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) | Website: A public-private initiative dedicated to accelerating the development and use of technologies that radically improve the quality, durability, energy efficiency, environmental performance, and affordability of housing in the US. | Online: http://www.pathnet.org/ (USA) |
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| Passiv Haus Institut | Website: Includes various studies of high-efficiency energy systems in houses, including the CEPHEUS (Cost Efficient Passive Houses as European Standards). | Online: http://www.passiv.de/ (Germany) |
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| Queensland Government Department of Housing | New Approaches to Housing | Website: Contains strategies for affordable housing in sustainable communities, and the Smart Housing initiative | Online: http://www.housing.qld.gov.au/new_approaches_to_housing/ (Australia) |
| Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) | The Australian EcoSpecifier Project | Website: Provides advice on sourcing environmentally preferable building materials. | Online: http://ecospecifier.rmit.edu.au/flash.htm (Australia) |
| US Green Building Council (USGBC) | Website: Provides sustainable design tools and resources available to assist green building practitioners and building industry stakeholders. | Online: http://www.usgbc.org/ (USA) |
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| Vale B and Vale R (2000) | The New Autonomous House | Book: Features include the theory, practice and performance of building a zero-emissions house in the UK. There is some discussion of relevance to the New Zealand situation in the book. | Thames & Hudson, London (UK/Australia) |
| Vale R, Vale B and Fay R (for Environment Australia) (2001) | National Australian Building Environmental Rating Scheme (NABERS) | Website report: NABERS is a “broad brush” tool designed to give a rating of the overall environmental impact of a building. A second version is currently under development. | Online: http://www.deh.gov.au/industry/construction/nabers/progress/pubs/nabersdec2001.pdf (Australia) |
