Vstar Energy helps you to navigate the Sustainable Building Design Council application process and submit plans that meet policy requirements for approval first time, without rework.
Council’s “Sustainable Design Assessment in the Planning Process” (SDAPP) 10-point framework provides the key application considerations of Council as part of Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESD) planning policy.
Vstar uses a number of specialist tools to create your Sustainable Design Assessment (SDA) and Sustainable Management Plan (SMP) for your Council submission. Here are the 10 sustainable building categories covered:
SDAPP – 10 Key Sustainable Building Categories
1.0 Indoor Environment Quality: to achieve a healthy indoor environment quality for the wellbeing of building occupants.
2.0 Energy Efficiency: to ensure the efficient use of energy, to reduce total operating greenhouse emissions and to reduce energy peak demand.
3.0 Water Efficiency: to ensure the efficient use of water, to reduce total operating potable water use and to encourage the appropriate use of alternative water sources.
4.0 Stormwater Management: to reduce the impact of stormwater run-off, to improve the water quality of stormwater run-off, to achieve best practice stormwater quality outcomes and to incorporate the use of water sensitive urban design, including rainwater re–use.
5.0 Building Materials: to minimise the environmental impacts of materials used by encouraging the use of materials with a favourable lifecycle assessment
6.0 Transport: to minimise car dependency and to ensure that the built environment is designed to promote the use of public transport, walking and cycling.
7.0 Waste Management: to ensure waste avoidance reuse and recycling during the construction and operation stages of development.
8.0 Urban Ecology: to protect and enhance biodiversity and to encourage the planting of indigenous vegetation.
9.0 Innovation: to encourage innovative technology, design and processes in all development, so as to positively influence the sustainability of buildings.
10.0 Construction and Building Management: to encourage a holistic and integrated design and construction process and ongoing high performance.
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