RU&A designs low carbon buildings while optimising day lighting, ensuring a healthy indoor environment quality and low energy footprint through the application of principles of building physics, traditional construction materials and appropriate technologies.
Key features :
- Low embodied energy & local materials
- Optimal natural light & ventilation
- Building design as per terrain, landscape, microclimate and vegetation
- Siting based on sun-path, topography & hydrology of land
- Climate responsive and low-energy design
- Rainwater harvesting
- Grey and black water recycling
- Water-efficient and ecological landscape design
- Solar, wind and other forms of renewable energy
- Low embodied energy & local materials
- Adequate natural light & ventilation
