The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
What Colour Is Your Building?
David Clark wrote this book, published by RIBA in 2013, to provide practical guidance on how to measure and reduce the energy and carbon footprint of buildings. The book was supported with a suite of on-line resources – 13 appendices and 30+ information papers.
What Colour Is Your Building? focussed on whole building energy consumption (landlord and tenant) and embodied carbon – a decade later these issues are now key to building owners addressing their scope 3 emissions.
An e-book version, together with all of the original on-line resources are available to download for free from www.whatcolourisyourbuilding.com.
Guides to Electrification
David Clark is the principal technical author of the Green Building Council of Australia’s electrification guides:
A Practical Guide to Electrification for New Buildings (2022)
A Practical Guide to Electrification for Existing Buildings (2022)
The future is electric: A practical guide for grid-optimised precincts (2024)
David also wrote a suite of resources for the Better Building Partnership to assist asset managers and facility managers to electrify their portfolios including:
Flowcharts for electrification process, domestic hot water and space heating
Guidance on preparing a portfolio business case
Webinars and Podcasts
Game change in the electrification of buildings - Vinzero podcast (February 2024)
No green hydrogen in buildings - GBCA video (September 2023)
Electrification of buildings - GBCA video (August 2023)
Guide to retrofits: moving from gas to electricity - Xempla podcast (August 2023)
Kit & Fit Masterclass - The Festival of Electric Ideas, The Fifth Estate (July 2023)
What the $%^& is zero carbon? - Cundall Podcast (October 2021)
Zero Carbon Tenants: it is possible - Cundall Webinar (September 2021)
Embedding net zero into business and beyond - GBCA Podcast (May 2021)
Climate positive: Designing beyond zero - Cundall webinar (June 2020)
Articles
How to green your supply chain - Work for Climate (May 2023)
David Clark’s three easy steps to climbing the mountain (because we don’t have another 20 years to figure this out) - The Fifth Estate (August 2022)
Taking tenants along for the zero carbon ride - The Fifth Estate (September 2021)
David Clark on engineers making 2020 the year of net zero - The Fifth Estate (August 2020)
Aussie’s doing great on WorldGBC’s net zero commitment – now for the hard part - The Fifth Estate (September 2019)
Adani – a consultant’s moral dilemma or no brainer? - The Fifth Estate (October 2017)
Green Star rises to the decarbonisation challenge - The Fifth Estate (October 2017)
Turning a sparrow into a peacock - office building retrofit at 55 St Andrews Place Melbourne - BEDP CAS 52, (August 2008)