Aedas Green Book
Launched in April 2008, the Aedas Green Book is our reference guide to sustainable practice and a summary of our goals and strategies to achieve them. Developed by Aedas Sustainable Design, it has been adopted by the practice’s 11 offices throughout the UK. The Aedas Green Book provides a showcase for Aedas projects and practice procedures.
The Aedas online Green Tool is accessible to employees at all times though the practice’s knowledge management intranet. It supports architects’ workflow, coordination with consultants and the sharing of project experience across design teams.
Aedas Green Book and online Tool are complemented by Design Guides that assist designers in communicating sustainability and incorporating passive and active systems for sustainable design. They also provide guidance on specifying sustainable materials, construction and compliance with legislation and standards. Case studies illustrate these principles applied in practice.
Summarising our industry-recognised strategy, Aedas Green Book is a snapshot of our progress and the comprehensive service and research resources we offer.
01. The Green Book by Aedas
02. Aedas resources
03. Construction industry impact
The graphs show how construction, maintenance and use of buildings have a significant impact on climate change and ecosystem damage.
04. Aedas' aspiration timeline
Timeline shows Aedas' aspiration to reduce the CO2 emissions of our projects by 50 percent by 2011.
05. Design guide
Aedas’ Design Guides provide technical guidance on sustainable design issues and assist design teams to minimise the environmental impact of our projects.
06. Practice operations
" Our target for 2011 is to reduce operational emissions by 25 percent, through office energy savings, efficiencies in modes of travel and increased virtual communication."
