Documents & Guidelines

For The Integrated Design Approach to Sustainability...

Documents that we find are worth a look and would be useful to integrate into your next  project...

sustainable_sites_logo.jpg An interdisciplinary effort by the American Society of Landscape Architects, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden to create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable design, construction and maintenance practices.  http://www.sustainablesites.org/
   
ecostrataguidelogo.jpg The Eco-Strata Guide is a green guide for existing multi-family dwellings in Metro Vancouver and designed to help stratas find solutions to reduce water and energy consumption.
   
reaplogo.jpg The UBC Residential Environmental Assessment Program (REAP) is intended to provide a framework to encourage and measure sustainable building practices for market-based and staff/faculty/student residentialdevelopments at UBC. The objective is to bring about the construction of multi-family residential projects at UBC REAP is based on the LEED™ green building rating system, and is often referred to as 'LEED'S Lite'