Value Case for Sustainable Building in New Zealand [Ministry for the
Value Case for Sustainable Building in New Zealand [Ministry for the

... 1. Discount rate of 8.5% 2. Energy and water costs assumed to increase at 3% above inflation. 3. Three-year pre-design and construction period, with 20-year consideration period. 4. Costs have been normalised to 2005. 5. The library case study includes a number of materials features which add signif ...
Consumer Action Day 2008: Education for Sustainable Consumption
Consumer Action Day 2008: Education for Sustainable Consumption

... Making changes in lifestyle is not easy for many consumers. However, public commitment to sustainable consumption can be harnessed if people feel that they are supported by policies that make sustainable choices the easier choice. Research has shown that government is often the best starting point f ...
law in transition 2016 natural resources
law in transition 2016 natural resources

Job Description Job Title: Chief Designer – Infrastructure and
Job Description Job Title: Chief Designer – Infrastructure and

... understand areas of risk, improvement and opportunities to meet technical strategy Actively engage with Platform Chief Designers to ensure alignment of platform and infrastructure & security strategy and design Support the Service Architects and Solution Architects in defining technical solutions to ...

Sustainable implant

Sustainable implant is an urban typology that acts as a decentralized infrastructure provision hub on the neighborhood or district scale. Sustainable implants provide integrated infrastructure services that maintain cycles of energy, water and material, as well as provides social and economic returns. The concept originates from Arjan van Timmeren’s research, Autonomy & Heteronomy (2006), as an answer to the problem of scale versus innovation in infrastructure; wherein infrastructure benefits from increasing returns to scale but suffer from extremely slow rate of change and turnover. To answer this problem, the sustainable implant is an instrument for mid-scale facilitation of alternative system innovation. The sustainable implant is a synthesis of techniques for sustainable processing of urban flows within an ecological processing device. The objective of a sustainable implant is to generate qualitative and quantitative improvements for utility service provision.A sustainable implant cannot be regarded as a fixed design that can be repeated. The device comprises a guiding principle for a sustainable solution to the mainly non-sustainable flows in new or existing neighborhoods making use of E. F. Schumacher’s appropriate technology, matching technology to need. The sustainable implant facilitates the joint performance of the community as a cognitive agent within transition processes into sustainable development. On a neighborhood or district level, the Sustainable Implant entails the design of a more sustainable main structure for the transportation of water, wastewater, nutrients, energy, materials and/or waste.The sustainable implant is matched to the social culture, the micro-climate, and the client’s ambitions. The technical morphology the Sustainable Implant is formulated by comparing relevant alternatives against the conventional approach. The maintenance of clean urban cycles (via the sustainable implant’s integrated infrastructure approach) is analyzed to prove the fulfillment of the sustainability ambition. Beyond technocracy, the Sustainable Implant is to be socially calibrated and economically profitable.