Sustainable Development

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Sustainable Development
IYPS 2004

• Infrastructure and the Built Environment

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Introduction

• Kim Farrant Structural Engineer
• Kellogg Brown Root
• Lucia Wellington Architectural Student
  Queensland University of Technology

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Introduction

• Global design infrastructure
• State of technology
• Case Study Casa Valentina
• Case Study Mawson Lakes School

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Global Design Infrastructure

• Relationship between design, nature and other
  systems with our society
• Massive Change the future of global design,
  Vancouver Canada

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Global Design Infrastructure

• On the one hand nature, and its myriad aspects
  and processes, has become increasingly subject to
  our intentions, and on the other hand its
  absolute domination continues to elude us
  Bruce Mau Designs

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Global Design Infrastructure
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Global Design Infrastructure

• Buildings consume or are responsible for
• 40 of the world's total energy use,
• 30 of raw materials consumption,
• 25 of timber harvest,
• 35 of the worlds CO2 emissions,
• 16 of fresh water withdrawal,   
• 40 of municipal solid waste destined for
• local landfills, and
• 50 of ozone-depleting CFCs still in use. 

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Global Design Infrastructure

• Environment and economic impacts
• The built environment must address the
  environmental and economic consequences of its
  actions

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Global Design Infrastructure

• Three areas which related to the built
  environment were
• manufacturing
• materials
• urban

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Global Design Infrastructure

• Manufacturing
• Eliminate the need for raw materials and banish
  all waste
• Endless production cycle, circulating materials
  from cradle to cradle

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Global Design Infrastructure

• Materials
• Liberate form from matter
• Materials revolution
• Materials themselves as objects of design
  development

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Global Design Infrastructure

• Urban
• Create urban shelter for the entire world
  population
• Urbanisation is the triumph of the unnatural over
  the natural, the grid over the organic

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Global Design Infrastructure

• A realisation emerges We have the ability to
  house the whole human race

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Global Design Infrastructure

• Global and Local Importance in the Built
  Environment

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Global Design Infrastructure

• The Challenge
• Keep design and development of the built
  environment local while working together on a
  global scale to create an infrastructure for a
  more sustainable existence.

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State of Technology

• What is Sustainability?
• Loose definitions
• - progress difficult to measure
• - benefit difficult to justify
• For greater recognition
• - sustainability must be quantified

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Rating Tools - Worldwide

• BREEAM BRE Environmental Assessment Method
• Management - Ecology
• Energy use - Land use
• Health and well being - Materials
• Pollution - Water
• Transport

• Consider as early as possible

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Rating Tools - Australia

• No single system, over 20 in Australia
• Australian Building Greenhouse Rating
• Green Star
• etc.

• Australia needs a Nationally unified measurement
  approach and people with the skill to implement
  that approach

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State of Technology

• Materials Rating
• Embodied energy quantity of energy required
  by all activities associated with production
  including material acquisition, transportation,
  manufacturing and handling.
• Timber (0.5 - 11 MJ/kg)
• Steel (38 MJ/kg)
• Plastic (90 MJ/kg)

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State of Technology

• Swiss Re Building London
• Aerodynamic shape
• 50 less energy
• Natural ventilation
• Natural lighting
• Glazing to reduce solar gain
• External diagonal steel

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State of Technology
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State of Technology

• Weald and Downland Open Air Museum - UK
• Gridshell structure
• Square grid deformed into complex shape

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State of Technology

• Weald and Downland Open Air Museum - UK
• Deciduous trees for summer shading
• Masonry wall provide thermal mass
• Well insulated
• Reduce A/C requirements

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State of Technology
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Casa Valentina

• WOOF Workers on Organic Farms
• WOOF aims to create situations of skills sharing,
  cultural exchange and friendship

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Casa Valentina
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Casa Valentina
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Casa Valentina
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Casa Valentina
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Casa Valentina
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Casa Valentina
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Casa Valentina
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Casa Valentina

• Awareness of the true value of water
• Grey-water is recycled and re-used on vegetable
  and herb garden
• Simplistic and economic home made solar hot water
  system
• Open air shower
• Glass green rooms for temperature regulation
• Re-use and recycle of every object

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Casa Valentina
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Casa Valentina
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Mawson Lakes Primary School Preschool Year 7

• Sustainability education for the next generation

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Mawson Lakes School

• Setting the scene Mawson Lakes
• 50 hectare mixed use land development
• 12 km north of Adelaide

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Mawson Lakes School

• Setting the scene Mawson Lakes
• Businesses Technology Park
• Education University of SA
• Residential villages
• Advanced information technologies and
  telecommunications
• Energy efficient and intelligent homes
• Recycled and mains water supplies

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Mawson Lakes School

• KBR structural, civil, electrical, mechanical,
  fire and plumbing design
• Russell and Yelland - Architects
• South Australian Government
• 5.3 million (AUD)

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Mawson Lakes School

• 4 units
• Each trialling different technologies
• Efficiency monitored
• Most successful to be adopted for future State
  Government School Design

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Mawson Lakes School
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Mawson Lakes School

• Building as a learning tool
• Teach energy efficient principles
• Clear power switches to show connection
• Clear section of wall to show structural system
• Monitoring and control of heating/cooling by
  students

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Mawson Lakes School
Removable power and communications poles maximise
flexibility
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Mawson Lakes School

• Reduce water consumption
• Grey water use for irrigation
• Rainwater collection and re-use
• Internal flow controllers to taps
• Dual flushing cisterns
• Solar hot water generation

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Mawson Lakes School
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Mawson Lakes School

• Plant Selection
• Protect significant existing vegetation
• Native, drought resistant species
• Shading
• Deciduous trees to north
• Evergreen trees to east and west
• Vegetation to block and funnel winds

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Mawson Lakes School
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Mawson Lakes School

• Conservation of Biological Diversity
• Natural habitats to attract local wildlife
• Minimise building impact
• Compost and recycling bins

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Mawson Lakes School

• Building orientation
• benefit from winter sun
• shaded from summer sun
• Maximise use of natural lighting

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Mawson Lakes School
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Mawson Lakes School

• Structural and Materials
• Plantation and recycled timber
• Lean steel frame
• Minimal use of PVC

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Mawson Lakes School

• Ventilation 3 modes
• Wind
• Thermal
• Solar thermal
• Smart meters measure everything

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Mawson Lakes School
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Mawson Lakes School
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Mawson Lakes School
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Mawson Lakes School

• Intake point

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Mawson Lakes School

• Solar Chimney 1

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Mawson Lakes School

• Solar Chimney 2

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Conclusions

• Sustainability must.
• be measurable
• be considered on every project
• In order to achieve this.
• education

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