This sustainability guide updates Engineers Australia’s 1997 Towards Sustainable Engineering Practice – Engineering Frameworks for Sustainability. It is intended to provide engineers with guidance and information on sustainability and how to implement it in their activities.
CONTENTS
1 Introduction
1.1 Our obligations as professional engineers
1.2 What is sustainability?
1.3 How is sustainability relevant for engineers?
1.4 World Federation of Engineering Organisations’ Model Code of Practice
2 Planning
2.1 Investigation and analysis
2.2 Location
2.3 Impact and risk assessment
2.4 Stakeholder and community consultation
2.5 Approvals
3 Design
3.1 Eco-design
3.1.1 Passive design
3.1.2 Building automation and information models
3.2 Design rating tools
3.2.1 Green Star
3.2.2 NABERS
3.2.3 ABGR
3.2.4 NatHERS
3.2.5 Calculating Cool
3.2.6 BASIX
3.2.7 IS rating scheme
3.2.8 WERS
3.2.9 Energy Star
3.2.10 Green Vehicle Guide
3.3 Sustainable procurement
3.3.1 Embodied environmental value
3.3.2 Materials
3.4 Resource efficiency
3.4.1 Energy
3.4.2 Water
3.4.3 Waste
3.4.4 Emission modelling
3.5 Process optimisation
3.6 Climate change adaptation
3.7 Sustainable communities
3.7.1 Neighbourhood planning
3.7.2 Sustainable transport
4 Project delivery
4.1 Environmental protection
4.2 Social considerations
4.3 Economic considerations
5 Management
5.1 Operational efficiency
5.2 Management systems
5.3 Monitoring
5.4 Audit and compliance
5.5 Sustainability reporting
5.5.1 Organisational reporting
5.5.2 Government reporting
6 Stewardship
6.1 Product end of life
6.2 Deconstruction and remediation
6.3 Remediation and future land use
7 Case studies
Appendix A – Further information
International organisations
National authorities and agencies
State authorities and agencies
Professional bodies and other organisations
Relevant standards
Appendix B – Code of Ethics
Appendix C – Sustainability Policy
Appendix D – Climate Change Policy
Author: T. Atherton, C. Wardle. Prepared by Blue Environment (Strategic Environmental Consultants) for Engineers Australia’s College of Environmental Engineering.
@Engineers Australia, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-922107-55-8
