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Presentation from the ICWES 15 Conference
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Sustainable Building Design –Challenge and Opportunity
Introductions
Kate DoughertySenior ESD Consultant
ESD Team Leader
SKM Melbourne
Qualifications:
MEng (Hons) - Master of Engineering, Mechanical
CIBSE Low Carbon Consultant
CIBSE Low Carbon Energy Assessor
Green Building Council Australia Green Star Associate
Specialist Skills:
• Low and Zero carbon building design
• Building Physics
• Dynamic thermal modelling
• Thermal comfort and internal environment analysis
• Renewable technologies
Key Messages
• Buildings make a significant contribution to manmade climate change
• To design a truly sustainable building, apply the ‘low carbon design hierarchy’
• Sustainability must be integrated from the outset and the whole design team must take responsibility
Buildings and Climate Change
Sources of CO2 (1)
(1) Carbon Trust UK
The Low Carbon Design Hierarchy
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The Low Carbon Design Hierarchy
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Integrated Sustainable DesignSwinburne University AMC Building
Images courtesy of Wilkinson Eyre Architects and Swinburne University
Thermal Mass
Passive Chilled Ceilings
Displacement Ventilation
Rainwater Harvesting
Integrated Sustainable DesignSwinburne University AMC Building
Phase Change Material
Night Purge
Thermal Labyrinth
Natural Light Stack EffectSolar Shading
Trigeneration
Solar Thermal Hot Water
Key Messages
• Buildings make a significant contribution to manmade climate change
• To design a truly sustainable building, apply the ‘low carbon design hierarchy’
• sustainability must be integrated from the outset and the whole design team must take responsibility
Questions?