Free information to download, introducing the ideas behind healthier, more sustainable building and more harmonious living. For more depth, explore our courses.
Browse the free downloads ↓BBE has 30 Principles to guide you to a better way of designing, building and living in buildings. They fall into three groups: sustainable building, healthy building and harmonious living, making a holistic manifesto for ecological building and lifestyle. Read them and see how well your home, your lifestyle, your work and your neighbourhood measure up.
These sheets introduce some of the main ideas of healthier, more sustainable building, with practical tips for making your living environment better for you and for the environment.
Produced by Waitakere City Council with the Building Biology and Ecology Institute in the 1990s, these guidelines are packed with practical information on more sustainable building that has stood the test of time. They are in four sections: Energy, Materials, Sustainable Design and Water.
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