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16 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
University of Dundee
SuBETooL ( Sustainable Urban Built Environment Tool), framework and protocol for assessing sustainability. Developed with Hilson Moran and Reading University and put into practice by Hilson Moran in 2009.
Content
The development of a new integrated systems-based approach for master-planning. This approach is better able to promote community stakeholders participation and meet the environmental changes facing towns and cities today, than existing sustainability assessment frameworks and methods. SuBeTool comprises a set of 75 Indicators, compliance requirements, and assessment system. It sets new benchmarks for sustainability during the design and construction processes. Professor Derek Croome, University of Reading, was an advisor for this research.
Questions
How to extend current sustainability assessment frameworks and methods to make more environmentally resilient places?
How to articulate a new assessment framework for masterplanning which is holistic yet adaptable to different scales and contexts?
Methods
- Desktop case studies of recent master-planning projects worldwide, involving the comparative evaluation of the structure and operation of assessment methods/systems.
- Survey of stakeholders for their involvement in the master-planning process.
- Pilot study to prototype the SuBeTool.
- Assessment of current leading sustainability assessment tools: BREEAM, LEED, CASBEE, Green Star, QSAS.
- Assessment of the final version of SuBeTool in use by Hilson-Moran, a leading international A&E consultancy.
Dissemination
It has been published in:
8 peer reviewed journals, including Architectural and Planning Research, Building and Environment, Urban Design and Planning.
Professional Journals, Popular Press.
It has been the subject of more than 15 invited presentations to the Governments of Scotland, UAE, Turin City Council; and has been presented at international summits in Spain, Abu Dubai, London; and to leading architecture and planning consultancies; and to design advocacy groups, including Urban Design Skills, Architecture Design Scotland.
Esteem
Shortlisted for the Sustainable Consultant of the Year (2009) category of the UK-GBC/Building magazine sustainability awards.
Invited to present the SuBeTool to national governments and stakeholder groups as above.
