The Green Factor Tool is a free, online, evidence-based green infrastructure assessment tool. The tool provides meaningful guidance to landscape architects, designers, planners and developers and helps benchmark and optimize greening concepts in new developments. The project delivers on City of Melbourne’s ambition to encourage a greater quantity and quality of greening in the private realm and ensure that development responds to the climate and biodiversity emergency. The tool prompts users to consider green roofs, green walls, vertical greening, vegetation retention, rain gardens, canopy and biodiversity as part of their design response. The jury commends the intellectual leadership and generosity of the project in assisting the landscape architecture profession to contribute to climate-positive design outcomes as an intrinsic part of the creative process.
City of Melbourne’s Green Factor tool was developed in City of Melbourne, Victoria on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples.
Project credits
Client City of Melbourne Researcher University of Melbourne (Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, with input from landscape architecture program researchers and the Green Infrastructure Research Group) Sustainability consultant Hip v Hype Tool and website developer Little Sketches Landscape/built form tool testing and calibration Simone Bliss Landscape Architecture Industry engagement consultant Junglefy Additional partners City of Moreland, City of Port Phillip and City of Yarra Photographer City of Melbourne
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