As environmental degradation becomes an increasingly serious consideration, it is important that architects develop a new approach to design. Peter Graham systematically defines the environmental problems, the significant role of the building industry in causing these problems, and explains an attitude and methodology appropriate to produce an architectural solution. The basic principles of ecological building and design processes are clearly explained with built examples and comparisons to sustainable systems found in nature.
By the completion of this unit you will:
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Peter Graham is a Lecturer and stream leader of Technologies in the Architecture Program at the University of New South Wales. He is also Director of the FBE Environment and Sustainability Research Group. Prior to this he was lecturer in Sustainable Construction at RMIT.
Over the last seven years he has developed undergraduate and post graduate environmental studies courses for building professionals in Australia and Singapore. Peter's International research has included work with the International Energy Agency (Annex 31 – Assessing the energy-related environmental impacts of buildings), the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building Construction (CIB) (Task Group 16 – Sustainable Construction), the Green Building Challenge, and aid work in the Pacific teaching estimating and tendering for an AusAID capacity-building program.
In Australia he consults on sustainable design to practitioners, industry associations and government. He has recently published his first book “Building Ecology: First Principles for a sustainable built environment” Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
www.buildingecology.info
