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The low carbon living knowledge hub for a better built environment

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What does BuiltBetter do?

Assisting you to make better policy and practice decisions in the built environment, BuiltBetter helps you search for resources, insights, projects and networks, discover the people and organisations, who provide the knowledge, explore by subject, application, scale or system. BuiltBetter is new and exciting and will continue to grow and develop. Find out more…

Guides

Guide to low carbon households

Occupants, or householders, may be owners or renters and there may be multiple householders within one dwelling. This document recognises the needs and capacities of these different householder groups and, where appropriate, also addresses the needs of households in different climate zones.

 

Guide to low carbon residential retrofit

The document builds on key research conducted nationally by individuals and organisations, including the Australian Government’s Department of Environment and Energy and local universities, working in the areas of low carbon retrofit options, housing typology and climate.

 

Guide to low carbon residential new build

This document offers practical advice to developers and owner builders on how to achieve these objectives through the conception and realisation of a new home.

 

 

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Resources

ICM Database

17 Dec 2019
Thomas Wiedmann, Soo Huey Teh and Man Yu
University of New South Wales

The Integrated Carbon Metrics (ICM) Embodied Carbon Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Database (ICM Database) provides Australian-specific Carbon Footprint Intensities for around 700 construction and building materials, as well as built environment-related products and processes, based on a hybrid life cycle assessment methodology.

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A visualized overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on low-carbon built environments: An evidence review map

12 Nov 2019
Gihan Samarasinghe, Malgorzata Lagisz, Mattheos Santamouris, Komali Yenneti, Anir Kumar Upadhyay, Faustino De La Peña Suarez, Bhavesh Taunk and Shinichi Nakagawa
Elsevier Ltd.
Solar Energy

Sharing of key evidence on strategies for reducing resources consumption and lowering carbon footprint is essential to alleviating risks of increasing urbanization, population growth and looming climate change impacts. However, finding scientifically robust research and distilling knowledge to draw confident conclusions in a reasonable timeframe is challenging due to the sheer volume...

Journal article

Improving the accuracy of solar irradiance forecasts based on Numerical Weather Prediction using variables from multiple vertical layers as machine learning inputs

12 Nov 2019
Bibek Joshi, Alistair B. Sproul, Jessie Copper and Merlinde Kay
CRC for Low Carbon Living

This presentation investigates the value of using forecast variables from multiple vertical layers of NWP as machine learning inputs in improving the accuracy of solar irradiance forecasts. Moreover, the effects of postprocessing on the NWP models with different spatio-temporal resolution – Global Forecast System (GFS), regional (ACCESS-R) and city (ACCESS-C)...

Presentation

The Effect of Facades on Outdoor Microclimate

12 Nov 2019
Jonathan Fox
CRC for Low Carbon Living

Research funding provided by CRC for Low Carbon Living under Program 2 – Low Carbon Precincts, Research Project RP2005 - Urban Micro Climates: Comparative study of major contributors to the Urban Heat Island effect in three Australian cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide.

Presentation

From rationalism to critical pragmatism: revisiting Arnstein’s ladder of public participation in co-creation and consultation

12 Nov 2019
Aaron Davis and Jane Andrew
CRC for Low Carbon Living

This paper uses Forester’s theory of critical pragmatism to contrast the IAP2 spectrum with Arnstein’s Ladder as ways of evaluating public consultation. With support from Sennett’s (2012) notions of dialogic and dialectic cooperation, the paper highlights the mismatch between assessing planned and actual outcomes, and suggests how the adoption of...

Conference paper

Transformative Approaches for Sustainable Water Management in the Urban Century

12 Nov 2019
Magnus Moglia and Stephen Cook
Water

Sustainable Urban Water Management (SUWM) approaches highlighted in this special issue have the potential to contribute to the transformation of urban water systems. The aim of the transformation is to accommodate population and economic growth and at the same time enable a system which is environmentally sustainable and resilient to...

Journal article
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Reviews

Do green-rated office buildings save operational energy?

 A review of empirical evidence for the energy efficiency of new green-rated office buildings. 

Digital services and communication platforms for residential energy customer engagement

What role do future energy management systems play? This review takes a look at what the literature says.

 

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Tools

Precinct Carbon Assessment tool

Enables the exploration of different low carbon scenarios at precinct scale.

 Urban Heat Index tool

Support urban heat island mitigation decision-making

 

Go to Low Carbon Tools for details and more tools.

LATEST

Projects

Share your project with others

Start Date
2019
You can use this BuiltBetter feature to share with a wider community your project's details.

TULIP for smart liveable cities

Start Date
2018
TULIP is a smart city project delivery and research program lead by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). We are working at the front line of the emerging smart city...
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Networks

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You can use this BuiltBetter feature to connect with others on a topic of inquiry and research.

Engaging communities in transitions to low carbon living

This network investigates innovative planning and governance strategies for creating more liveable, sustainable, equitable, healthy and productive cities. It uses innovative approaches and methods to identify, track and respond to...

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