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Living Future Accreditation – January 2022

Tim has completed the Living Future Institute of Australia’s first ever ‘Living Future Accreditation + Regional Intensive Course‘. This is specifically tailored to ensure a full and detailed understanding of the requirements of the Living Building Challenge (v 4.0) within the Australian context.

 

Living Future Accreditation (LFA) is the professional credential that recognises proficiency in the world’s most ambitious, advanced, and holistic sustainable design standards.

 

As of January 2022, Tim has become the first and only Living Future Accredited (LFA) Professional in Tasmania, so if you are interested in seeking Living Building Challenge certification on your next project or just wish to know more about it, please feel free to make contact.

 

In addition, Tim has expertise regarding the requirements of all the other International Living Future Institute’s sustainability programmes, having also completed the International Living Future Institute’s Living Future Accreditation intensive online courses.

 

These include:

  • the Living Community Challenge (v 1.2);
  • Creating Biophilic Buildings;
  • Policy Leadership;
  • Core Green Building;
  • Net Zero Energy Building;
  • Urban Agriculture and Community Food Systems;
  • Achieving Healthy Materials;
  • Declare (v 2.0);
  • Just (v 2.0);
  • Living Product Challenge (v 2.0);
  • Reveal (v 1.0).

 

Together we can create the paradigm shift that we know, in our hearts, is necessary in order to save all life on our beautiful and unique, planet Earth.

 

Having qualified as a Living Future Accredited (LFA) Professional, from the very first cohort of this Australian-focussed, regional intensive course, Tim confirms that he “will take action to make an impact with his knowledge and expertise by bringing forth advanced solutions for reinventing our relationship with the natural world, the built environment, and each other.”

 

 

 

The Living Building Challenge is “a Philosophy, Advocacy Tool and Certification Programme” … “in pursuit of a future that is ecologically restorative, socially just and culturally rich“.

 

“Instead of a world that is merely a less bad version of the one we currently have – it asks a simple and profound question – WHAT DOES ‘GOOD‘ LOOK LIKE?“

 

I invite you to download the current version of the Living Building Challenge here:

LBC 4.0 Living-Building-Challenge-4.0

 

 

 

 

Tim is a Member of both the Living Future Institute Australia (LFIA)* as well as the International Living Future Institute (ILFI)** and in the past has completed courses in the Living Building Challenge v 2.0 and later, v 3.0.  He was one of the core group of four who became the founding members of Australia’s first Living Building Challenge Collaborative (in Sydney in late 2011) and went on to become a Living Building Challenge Ambassador, offering free public lectures within his Sydney-based community.

 

LFIA’s SUSTAINABILITY AMBITION

  • “Going further.
  • Further, towards a place where design is more than green, it’s restorative.
  • Where buildings give back to the people that inhabit them, to the land they’re on and the resources they draw from.
  • Where pioneering modern architecture forges a unity between design and nature. Embracing the aesthetic and fitting seamlessly into their environment and culture.
  • This is regenerative design. This is the future.
  • Future-designed spaces that foster well-being.
  • Buildings that are living, inspired and beautiful.
  • It’s not a dream. It’s already here.”

 

For more information regarding the Living Future Institute of Australia, please go here:

 

https://living-future.org.au

 

https://living-future.org.au/living-building-challenge

 

 

WOMBAT’s AMBITION

As a fully committed design professional, now with over 30 years international and national/local experience, Tim is passionate about engaging with and leading the design profession towards an integrated and truly sustainable approach to architecture, ecosystem regeneration and social inclusion … and to thereby enable the world to become more “socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative.”

 

Tim believes that it is possible to vastly improve our built environment within an integrated living environment, to respect and connect to Country by learning from our local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander custodians, by protecting and nurturing natural ecosystems, by carefully regenerating damaged ecosystems, and by designing our homes, learning spaces, play areas, community facilities and workplaces, to be as beautiful and as intelligent as Nature.

 

We could call this approach, ‘Human Nature‘!

And the Living Building Challenge offers us all a way to achieve this ambition.

 

 

Footnotes

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*  Established in 2012, the Living Future Institute of Australia (LFIA) is an Affiliate of the International Living Future Institute (ILFI).

 

**  ILFI is an environmental NGO committed to creating communities that are socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative. It operates the Living Building Challenge, the built environment’s most ambitious performance standard, as well as many other visionary programs that support the transformation toward a living future.

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