- 60% or more requires a concerted holistic approach to all sustainability
criteria
- sustainability criteria cover land, materials, energy, water,
interior, resources, transport and waste.
Designing for sustainability helped us
achieve this high score
This building has been assessed using the National Australian Buildings
Environmental Rating System (NABERS). It is the most up-up-to-date,
comprehensive rating system available — covering land, materials,
energy, water, interior, resources, transport and waste.
It becomes progressively difficult to achieve a high rating
- 35% can be achieved by normal sound architectural design
- 50% require serious consideration of environmental factors
- 60% or more requires a concerted holistic approach to all sustainability
criteria.
Specialist science buildings that include expensive laboratory and
extensive archival (the collections) spaces are penalized under the
system because more space and resources are needed per person than
for a conventional office building. This made our 60% even more difficult
to achieve. |
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