About the Environment Design Guide
The award winning Environment Design Guide (EDG) is a comprehensive source of information on environmental issues in the built environment.
EDG provides reliable, practical information, allowing practitioners to make educated, environmentally responsible decisions during the early phases of design, where the greatest environmental benefits can be effected with the least cost.
INTRODUCTION
With more than 280 peer-reviewed papers, EDG is available as a 3 volume set, or online.
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The Environment Design Guide contains a vast body of work with papers on key themes and topics relating to built environment sustainability and the impact of the built environment on the natural environment.
EDG is a subscription based journal which has been expanding for 12 years, and is updated with 24 papers a year in quarterly issues that cover new information about sustainability in the built environment and revisions of existing papers to keep them up to date. EDG brings together the expertise of renowned Australian authors in over 250 papers, including 45 case studies which cover multiple building types and regions throughout Australia. These papers are peer-reviewed by a combination of practitioners and experts to ensure they are accurate and accessible.
EDG aims to provide building design professionals with accurate, accessible, professional literature on how to reduce the environmental impact of the built environment. EDG subscribers include architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects, quantity surveyors, developers, academics, students, libraries and government and non-government environment/built environment agencies. Interior designers and facilities managers will also find EDG of value.
In producing EDG, many authors have combined to contribute their resources to address built environment sustainable development issues relating to each of the professions involved in the design of the built environment. Designers create the future and their decisions determine a building’s environmental impact over its entire life. The right decision costs less during the design phase than at any other point in a building's life cycle. The Environment Design Guide gives you the information to make those decisions.
Users of the EDG are strongly encouraged to provide feedback on the papers and case studies and to make suggestions on issues they would like to see addressed. Comments and contributions can be directed to the Environment Design Guide Manager. See the Contact page.
Environment Design Guide Vision and Mission
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HISTORY
The Environment Design Guide is a product of the Australian Institute of Architects and is produced as a service to its members and those in the wider community who wish to understand and advance sustainability in the built environment.
In 1995 the Environment Design Guide was developed as a resource by the Australian Institute of Architects in order to equip their members with the knowledge needed to accord with the Institute’s Environment Policy.
PAPERS AND SCOPE
EDG papers cover a broad range of pertinent environmental issues and design solutions, each written by an authority in the field. EDG case studies critique projects that feature key environmental design elements. Both the papers and case studies are subject to 2 blind peer reviews unless stated otherwise. It is the review process that gives EDG its quasi-academic standing and maintains the high standard of delivering accurate and accessible information. EDG papers aim in 2000-4000 words to introduce and discuss a particular issue. Each paper has a single page summary sheet which notes key points and references.
Each quarterly edition of EDG comes with a newsletter that includes articles, book reviews, as well as dates of upcoming conferences and training seminars. Please see the last page of the newsletters for a brief introduction to the papers in the issue they accompany.
International Standard Serial Number: ISSN 1442-5017
FREE SAMPLE PAPER DOWNLOADS
Below are free sample papers from each section of EDG which give a clear idea of the nature of the journal:TEC: Technology
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TEC 2 - Natural Ventilation in Passive Design |
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TEC 16 - Lighting – Energy Management and Occupant Well-Being through Integrated Control |
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TEC 26 - Living Walls – A Way to Green the Built Environment |
DES: Design Strategies
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DES 11 – Water Sensitive Urban Design – the Journey Thus Far |
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DES 15 - Planning for Transit Oriented Development in Australian Cities |
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DES 24 - Domestic Wastewater |
NOT: Notes
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NOT 11 - Ecologically Sustainable Development – Glossary of Terms |
PRO: Products and Materials
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PRO 24 - Low CO2 Concrete: Are we Making any Progress? |
CAS: Case Studies
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CAS 45 – Sustainability and Urban Containment |
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CAS 50 - Australian Ethical Investment Headquarters, 6 Star Green Star Office Refurbishment, Canberra |