Sustainable design
Sustainable design supports healthy, cost effective and functional buildings.
Sustainable design supports healthy, cost effective and functional buildings.
The spaces we inhabit have a significant impact on our enjoyment, wellbeing and experience of a place. Keeping a home also forms a significant part of our budget over our lifetime, including how many resources they use, therefore how they’re designed becomes of utmost importance.
Designing a sustainable built environment ensures we minimise our impact. Sustainable design helps create buildings, streets and neighbourhoods that are comfortable, affordable and resilient now and into the future.
Our subtropical climate makes the Sunshine Coast a great place to live, work and play. We can design to take advantage of our climate to protect our lifestyle and environment, even as the region grows. This will also help us use our resources wisely.
Sustainable design includes buildings, streets and neighbourhoods that:
We can work towards creating a sustainable built environment whenever we design buildings, infrastructure and the public realm.
A well-designed built environment that minimises environmental impacts, improves liveability and supports community resilience.
Outcome
A well-designed built environment that minimises environmental impacts, improves liveability and supports community resilience.
Resources
Download or read more about our sustainable design initiatives
Counci has released the Environment and Liveability Strategy Annual Report.
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Council’s ‘Living on the Sunshine Coast’ survey investigates.
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Sunshine Coast officially becomes a UNESCO biosphere.
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Biodiversity is the variety of all life plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms.
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Our region is a mix of coastal living and a relaxed, productive and rural lifestyle.
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We all use energy and natural resources, yet can do more to reduce our impact on the environment.
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