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Adaptation to Climate Change through Building Regulation

June 19, 2008 By Jonas BengtssonIn Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Edge News, Sustainable ConstructionTags adaptation, BCA, climate change

The aim of this article, Adaptation to Climate Change through Building Regulation, is to provide an overview of the climate change related threats to the...

Adaptation of the USGBC TSAC Report for Relevance to Australian DWV Pipe

January 22, 2008 By Jonas BengtssonIn Edge News, Life Cycle Assessment, Reports and Publications, Sustainable ConstructionTags Life Cycle Assessment

This report, Adaptation of the USGBC TSAC Report for Relevance to Australian DWV Pipe, has been prepared by BRANZ on behalf of PIPA and a...

Your Development: Design for Deconstruction

January 13, 2008 By Jonas BengtssonIn Edge News, Reports and Publications, Sustainable Construction

Design for Deconstruction for CSIRO and the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts’ Your Development web site, by Tom Davies....

A Cross-Disciplinary Assessment of the Need to Adapt Buildings

November 20, 2007 By Jonas BengtssonIn Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Edge News, Reports and Publications, Sustainable ConstructionTags adaptation, climate change, New Zealand, SB07

Robust scientific projections show that climate change will significantly affect the New Zealand built environment. Major impacts are expected from inland and coastal flooding, building...

Climate Change Impacts on APEC Countries

September 11, 2007 By Jonas BengtssonIn Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Edge News, Reports and PublicationsTags APEC, climate change, IPCC, WWF

Climate change will affect the countries of Asia Pacific in many different ways. The latest science as reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

Comparative service life assessment of window systems

August 13, 2007 By Jonas BengtssonIn Edge News, Life Cycle Assessment, Reports and Publications, Sustainable ConstructionTags BRANZ, FWPA, GBCA, LCA, Life Cycle Assessment

The objective of this project was to assess the service life and life cycle environmental performance of the main variants of window system used in...

An Assessment of the Need to Adapt Buildings in NZ to the Impacts of Climate Change

July 13, 2007 By Jonas BengtssonIn Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Edge News, Reports and PublicationsTags adaptation, BRANZ, climate change, Climate Change Sustainability Index, IPCC, New Zealand, NIWA

The scientific evidence is very strong: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response. The...