This was a research and co-design project that centred the voices of people with accessibility needs and those vulnerable to exclusion in the design of a new building for VCAT, Victoria’s civil court.

Embodied emissions – generated as buildings are constructed – will be the predominant source of greenhouse gas emissions from Australia’s commercial buildings by 2050, but there’s no agreed standard for their measurement. We engaged stakeholders across the built environment to co-create a nationally accepted tool to tackle this challenge.