Sustainable Designers Toolkit and Green Technology Guide
With the growing concern to create a more sustainable society, key individuals and leading companies within the built environment are now looking for solutions that will solve current building concerns by addressing ecologically sound and healthy developments and environments.
The problem with implementing these solutions is we often don't understand the issues involved or know what we can do to help.
The Northern Rivers Regional Strategy (NRRS) has implemented the production of a sustainable toolkit to address this problem. The aim is to provide you with a compass that will short cut your time, energy and resources.
The toolkit is comprised of two parts; A Green Technology Guide that covers in brief all the main areas that need to be addressed for a broad understanding of sustainability in the built environment and a Sustainable Designers Toolkit which is a comprehensive ecological products database for architects, builders, engineers, designers, projects managers, governments and the community at large.
The Green Technology Guide breaks up sustainability issues into 6 main areas looking at the issues involved in each area and the strategies we can implement to help. It directly relates to the aims of the NRRS.
Sustainable Designers Toolkit
A database of "green" products sorted according to their potential ESD(ecologically sustainable development) usage (eg: conserve water, promote renewable energy) with a list of the main benefits that the product can deliver. Contact details, website and email addresses are included.
The database may be searched by
action strategy, product catagories, keyword search or by
browsing through various catagories.
The Sustainable Designers Toolkit and Green Technology Guide have been produced for the NRRS by Natural Integrated Living, an architectural and consulting group specialising in integrating the built and natural environments. They have a 24 year track record in delivering practical, and sustainable eco-projects across a diverse spectrum including single and multi-dwelling residential buildings, green building policy and consultancy, interior design, eco-products and technologies, indoor environment quality assessment, environmental assessment and education and training.
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