When some of my friends started to found ACF conservation wasn't really on the public agenda. I hoped that ACF would be a body that would really alert all Australians to the quite vital issues.
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Sustainable? How exactly?
The 60L green building was designed to minimise its impact on the environment: the building structure, choice of materials; location and physical orientation; the methods to be used by the builders; the way the building would function once completed - all these were considered through the lens of sustainable environmental practice.
The general principles adopted for the 60L green building were to:
- Create a quality building that is commercially viable;
- Minimise the consumption of materials and maximise their reuse;
- Protect the natural environment by astute selection and use of materials;
- Minimise energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions;
- Minimise the consumption of mains water and maximise recycling of treated wastewater, and
- Adopt environmentally sound and healthy work practices, during both construction and occupancy.
Instead of being a side issue, environmental design, energy and resource use became the critical focus of the building design.
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