Sustainable Buildings in Australia:
Abstract
Challenges, Incentives and Successes
Introduction
The earth’s finite ecosystem is struggling to cope with the current level of human activity and consumption. Natural resources are becoming scarcer while consumers (people) are becoming increasingly more abundant. The current world population of 6 billion is predicted to increase by 50% to 9 billion by 2050 (USCB, 2002). Australia’s current population of 19.5 million is predicted to increase by between 25% and 45% over the next 50 years (ABS, 2002). As a highly developed nation Australia has a duty to demonstrate how this growth can be achieved in a sustainable manner.
Author
David Clark
Sinclair Knight Merz