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Assessing Occupant Comfort In An Iconic Sustainable Education Building, Rick Best, Brian Purdey
Assessing Occupant Comfort In An Iconic Sustainable Education Building, Rick Best, Brian Purdey
Rick Best
The building that houses the Mirvac School of Sustainable Development at Bond University is the first educational building to achieve a six Green Star rating from the Green Building Council of Australia. It has won numerous awards since opening in August 2008 including being judged the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Sustainable Building of 2009. After more than two years in use a post-occupancy evaluation study was carried out to assess the performance of the building from the viewpoint of the users; both resident staff and transient students. Results for factors such as lighting, thermal comfort, noise and air …
Building Capability For Disaster Resilience, Lynn Crawford, Craig Langston, Bhishna Bajracharya
Building Capability For Disaster Resilience, Lynn Crawford, Craig Langston, Bhishna Bajracharya
Bhishna Bajracharya
All levels of government recognise the widespread devastation of communities by natural or other disasters. They have responded with emergency management arrangements and policies to enhance government and community capacity to anticipate, withstand and recover from disastrous events. Although the construction industry has a significant role to play, particularly in recovery and reconstruction, it has not generally been considered as a key stakeholder in building capability for disaster resilience. One barrier to more active involvement of the construction industry in disaster response and management is that traditional methods of construction project management have been criticised as too time consuming and …
Planning And Design Of Master-Planned Communities For Healthy Living, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too
Planning And Design Of Master-Planned Communities For Healthy Living, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too
Bhishna Bajracharya
Due to growing health concerns linked to inactive living, a number of new master-planned communities in South East Queensland are creating supportive environments for physical activities. Varsity Lakes in Gold Coast is an example of such community which provides both infrastructures and programs to encourage active living. The objective of the paper is to examine the relationship between built environment and healthy communities through a review of current literature. Synthesising these findings, a conceptual framework is developed for supporting active and healthy living in master-planned communities. The three key factors are 1) place; 2) program and 3) partnership. This framework …
Planning And Design Of Master-Planned Communities For Healthy Living, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too
Planning And Design Of Master-Planned Communities For Healthy Living, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too
Linda Too
Due to growing health concerns linked to inactive living, a number of new master-planned communities in South East Queensland are creating supportive environments for physical activities. Varsity Lakes in Gold Coast is an example of such community which provides both infrastructures and programs to encourage active living. The objective of the paper is to examine the relationship between built environment and healthy communities through a review of current literature. Synthesising these findings, a conceptual framework is developed for supporting active and healthy living in master-planned communities. The three key factors are 1) place; 2) program and 3) partnership. This framework …