Green Star Diffusion - Architecture

In April 2004, the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) and its project partners, the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA), the Australian Institute of Refrigeration Air Conditioning & Heating (AIRAH) and the Property Council of Australia (PCA) were successful in attracting Department if Industry, Tourism and Resources - AusIndustry Innovation Access Program funding assistance for a project to develop professional development materials to support architects and mechanical engineers in the uptake of Green Star innovation and for the property industry.

This project entitled 'Green Star Diffusion - Architecture' aims to ensure that the innovation contained in the Green Star - Office Design rating tool is made available to architects to support them in the attainment of green building capabilities.

An important component of the Green Star Diffusion project was to attempt to understand how professional services practices were engaging with innovation and how practitioners preferred to learn and continue to develop their practice capabilities. An early component of the project included a series of workshops, conducted by Huston Eubank of the USA Rocky Mountain Institute, to provide knowledge and insights about these issues which could be used to guide the Implementation Manual content writers. The outputs of this component proved invaluable.

To provide continuing advice to the content writers on matters of relevance and appropriateness of material, RAIA convened a reference group of practitioners comprising architects and designers from a range of practices, large and small. This reference group included practitioners with green building experience and those without, who saw this document in its evolution and provided invaluable guidance.

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