It’s critical that all new infrastructure, particularly transportation, buildings, power production, and “waste” systems infrastructure, be designed as “low-carbon”. Strategies for creating low-carbon infrastructure include:
(Table 2 in:
Kennedy, C., Bristow, D., Derrible, S., Mohareb, E., Saneinejad, S., Stupka, R., Sugar, L., Zizzo, R., and McIntyre, B. (200?). “Getting to Carbon Neutral: A Review of Best Practices in Infrastructure Strategy”. Fifth Urban Research Symposium: “Cities and Climate Change – Responding to an Urgent Agenda”, May, 2009.)
Making the Change to Low-Carbon Infrastructure: Masdar, City of the Future
IDP: Use of Virtual Reality
In Detail: The Mosaic Centre
IDP: The Integrated Design Process
MEASURES OF SUSTAINIBILITY APPLIED TO THE CIRS BUILDING AT UBC