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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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?