More about the Melbourne trip (21&22 July).
Drove back from Melbourne on the Sunday afternoon.
Stopped in at Albury to check out the rammed earth building at a Thurgoona campus of the Charles Sturt University and a local church.
The C D Blake Lecture Theatre is pictured in Sticks Stones Mud Homes: Natural Living by Nigel Noyes. This is how I knew these buildings existed. A bit of googling with ‘Thurgoona’ and ‘rammed earth’ also brought the church to light.
The Lecture Theatre building also has an earth roof over the theatre end.
Arrived at the site only expecting the one rammed earth building. Was delighted to find that most of the other buildings on site where also rammed earth.
Do to lack of planning on my part; I had no replacement for the almost flat battery in my camera. So no rammed earth pics.
Gnoll110
Showing posts with label green roofs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green roofs. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Context: Green Roofs
Green Roofs for Healthy Australian Cities has a word press blog called Green Roofs. It’s a great source of posts and particularly photos.
A post from the start of May interested me. The Brisbane City Council (BCC) is looking at green roofs in the ‘Action Plan’ that is currently being drawn up by its Climate Change and Energy Taskforce.
For me, it’s an issue of context. Over most of the BCC’s area, green roofs would not be a good course of action.
Where are green roofs a good course of action? I think three factors need to be considered. These are:
1/ Rainfall
2/ Open space
3/ Insulation
Is local rainfall high enough that the addition high quality run off from a hard roof would not be missed?
Is the value of the additional usable open green space is greater value than the value of the addition high quality run off?
Is the value of the insulation provided by the green roof is greater value than the value of the addition high quality run off?
Background: Brisbane is a city currently in a water crisis, due to climate change and a lack of government planning (since an incoming state government cancelled a major dam in the late 1980s).
Over suburban Brisbane, the additional run off would be of great use for both as drinking and garden water.
Only in the inner city, would the value of a green roof as open green space and insulation combine to make is a good choice of action.
Gnoll110
Technorati tags:
green+roofs permaculture global warming inner+city suburbia water rainfall open+space green+space insulation brisbane australia
A post from the start of May interested me. The Brisbane City Council (BCC) is looking at green roofs in the ‘Action Plan’ that is currently being drawn up by its Climate Change and Energy Taskforce.
For me, it’s an issue of context. Over most of the BCC’s area, green roofs would not be a good course of action.
Where are green roofs a good course of action? I think three factors need to be considered. These are:
1/ Rainfall
2/ Open space
3/ Insulation
Is local rainfall high enough that the addition high quality run off from a hard roof would not be missed?
Is the value of the additional usable open green space is greater value than the value of the addition high quality run off?
Is the value of the insulation provided by the green roof is greater value than the value of the addition high quality run off?
Background: Brisbane is a city currently in a water crisis, due to climate change and a lack of government planning (since an incoming state government cancelled a major dam in the late 1980s).
Over suburban Brisbane, the additional run off would be of great use for both as drinking and garden water.
Only in the inner city, would the value of a green roof as open green space and insulation combine to make is a good choice of action.
Gnoll110
Technorati tags:
green+roofs permaculture global warming inner+city suburbia water rainfall open+space green+space insulation brisbane australia
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