Environmental guidelines & Micro Climate Analysis from Vim Consulting

Together with the client's design team, we draft environmental guidelines to guide large or small development projects from 'the cradle to the grave'.

This can quite often extend to design briefs and operational master plans which assist clients in understanding their sustainable needs while ensuring thier requirements for a sustainabale outcome are met.

We can also write sustainability handbooks to assist with staff and occupant education as well as provide training in the sustainable features that have been incorporated into the facility or business plan. Both of these will provide tangible frameworks for staff through which to achieve environmental goals.

Once you impose a building upon a landscape, you change the local environment around that structure. This is called the Micro Climate.

Vim Consulting uses Micro Climate analysis to recommend specific design changes or procedures to regulate or influence the local Micro Climate and use those changes to reduce energy demands, improve comfort, reduce building waste and more.

The analysis also assists in integrating the building with its surroundings. This improves the livability and attractiveness of the building for occupants. Micro Climate analysis is a powerful tool in the armoury of sustainable design.