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Barriers to investment
Published in Stephen Finnegan, New Financial Strategies for Sustainable Buildings, 2017
Conversely, however building with high environmental performance will lead to lower whole-life costs. For example, Sydney’s One Central Park, see Figure 4.1, has embraced environmental design through the use of water recycling, low-carbon tri-generation power plant and the use of hydroponic vertical gardens. As a result of the initial expenditure the buildings energy use is significantly reduced.
Exploring views on design and service factors for improving housing development green space quality in Taiwan
Published in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022
Shiang-I Juan, Lucky Shin-Jyun Tsaih
A good environmental design promotes carbon sequestering, air purification, water recycling, management of extreme temperatures, and increased energy efficiency (Directorate-General for Research and Innovation 2015). For these purposes, mitigating flooding using permeable materials as well as considering the use of native plants in green spaces, not only could protect the original wildlife habitat but also restore it. By using native plants could promote the local biodiversity and reduces potential environmental impacts. Additionally, enhancing the economic value of a housing development using green space design is another aspect of the sustainable design approach used currently.
Is radical innovation in architecture crucial to sustainability? Lessons from three Scottish contemporary buildings
Published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2018
Marianna Nigra, Branka Dimitrijevic
The case studies analysis answers the second research question – whether particular building design approaches and characteristics could be used as a strategic ground for achieving sustainability results. To answer this question, this work has presented some examples of the results achieved in the three case studies by assessing the buildings according to the parameters in Table 3. Among all the results, it is possible to observe that aspects such as context and architectural design characteristics (see specific sub-categories in Tables 4, 5 and 6) have the potential to produce positive social impacts if the social objectives were addressed by providing functional spaces; by engaging with clients and users throughout the project; by providing flexible spaces for continuous community use; if the building communicates sustainability values and intent through its visible features; and if the project has received a public recognition of its positive social impacts. The context and the architectural design characteristics have also the potential to produce positive environmental impacts by providing healthy and comfortable indoor environments; by adapting to the surrounding and optimising the micro-climate characteristics; by applying environmental design schemes and concepts by relying on low energy consumption building services; by reducing the exploitation of primary resources; and by using renewable sources of energy and local materials. This latter building design characteristic, in conjunction with the construction systems, has also the potential to produce positive economic impacts by contributing to the creation of new local jobs during and after construction; by stimulating or strengthening local economic development through new knowledge and experiences, and in some cases, by opening new markets. Similarly, building services can produce positive environmental impacts (as the ones mentioned for the context and architectural design characteristics), as well as positive social impacts (e.g. when the indoor quality of the environment contributes to users’ well-being, and when the use of sustainable building services displays their value to the users and therefore has an educational role. In terms of economic impact, building services can reduce whole-life cycle costs by monitoring and defining an appropriate behaviour in terms of energy consumption, and by producing, in certain cases, extra sources of energy to trade off. Shedding light on sustainable development opportunities in building projects contributes to the strategic planning of architectural design that can achieve sustainability goals.