Waste
Vision:
Development does not adversely affect the environment or increase the environmental loadings and pressures ofwaste, wastewater or stormwater.
Potential Parameters:
Quantity and quality of waste produced during construction and operation; ability for building componentsto be re-used or recycled at end of life; sediment and erosion during construction and operation; waste waterreduction.
Design Strategies:
Minimization/reduction of impact; optimization of new infrastructure, services, transportation; use of existinginfrastructure, services and transportation.
For More Information:
BRANZ’s level.org.nz, Waste Management Institute of New Zealand, Reducing Building Material Waste.
Indoor Environmental Quality
Vision:
The design of your home allows you to maintain a healthy indoor temperature all year round, with no additionalenergy for heating or cooling.
Potential Parameters:
Indoor environmental quality, including thermal comfort, emissions (VOC, ODP), moisture, particulates,ventilation, daylighting, and noise.
Design Strategies:
Support occupant control of the thermal comfort. Source, specify non-, or low, pollutant emitting materials,finishes and products. Specify non-emitting alternatives. Seal materials that contain pollutants. Vent pollutantsoutdoors. Allow occupant control of indoor air temperatures and humidity, Minimize indoor moisture sources.Ventilate, Hard surface flooring to prevent mould growth.
For More Information:
BRANZ’s level.org.nz
Affordable and Suitable for Purpose
Vision:
The house will be affordable. The occupants will be delighted by the house, its size, cost, and features.
Potential Parameters:
Cost today, estimates of cost to design and build in five years, desirability and marketability in five years,functional adequacy, delight, aesthetic compatibility with regional and local styles, provide delightfulstreetscape, meeting diverse and conflicting goals simply, simple and rational, supports evolution ofrequirements for occupants and society, integration into community, easily built or manufactured, environmentalsensitivity of site.
Design Strategies:
KISS, collaborative design, lateral thinking, low cost, simple, robust, durable, quality over quantity, kiwiingenuity.
For More Information:
Waitakere City Sustainable Building Guidelines, Christchurch City Council Sustainable building guidelines, UKCode for Sustainable Homes: A step-change in sustainable home building practice.
Supporting a Sustainable Community
Vision:
Supports well-being, good quality of life, and healthy local environment today and into the future. Developmentdoes not adversely affect the environment or increase pressures.
Potential Parameters:
Land use efficiency; site location (greenfield, brownfield, infill); personal mobility; transport energy;accessibility; functionality; mixed use; inclusiveness; human scale development; safety on the site and in thecommunity; reduction in energy and emissions from commuting transport and related infrastructure; reductionin environmental loadings; supporting future local food production; optimization of new infrastructure, services,transportation; use of existing infrastructure, services and transportation, protection of natural habitat;development density, site stewardship, site landscaping and ecology.
Design Strategies:
Distinctive identity, local character, civic identity, efficient use of land, pedestrian, cycle, and vehicle friendly,avoiding segregation, support social ties, link with multiple transport systems, plan for reduction in fossil fuelavailability, emulate the natural hydrology as much as possible.
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