About Brisbane Green Factor
Brisbane Green Factor has been developed for the local climate. Discover how it contributes to Brisbane's lifestyle.
What is Brisbane Green Factor?
Brisbane Green Factor is an award-winning non-statutory online tool that helps assess the quality of proposed green infrastructure in new developments.
The tool was designed to measure a development site's contribution to 6 ecosystem service areas.
These ecosystem service areas are integral to providing healthy urban places and aligning with Brisbane's strategic objectives.
Designed for Brisbane
Originating from a formula first established in Berlin, the green factor concept has been adopted to improve urban green spaces across Brisbane.
As the city grows, there’s an opportunity to protect and enhance Brisbane’s vegetation, biodiversity and subtropical lifestyle through urban development.
Brisbane Green Factor provides a user-friendly, innovative way to capture and measure the quantity and quality of green infrastructure on development sites across the city.
Who can use Brisbane Green Factor?
Council encourages developers and designers to use Brisbane Green Factor on the following building types:
- residential
- hotel or other accommodation
- retail, shop or service
- shopping centre
- public building
- community facilities
- commercial office
- light industrial or warehouse
- service station.
Why Council is using Brisbane Green Factor
Brisbane Green Factor helps Council and the development industry balance the growing need for housing with the creation of high-quality urban landscaping.
Although using the tool is voluntary, there’s an opportunity to incorporate more green infrastructure as the city grows.
Utilising the tool within the urban development process can help to improve green space, restore biodiversity and address increasingly urgent issues such as stormwater quality.
There's also an opportunity to enhance Brisbane’s identity as a green, subtropical city.
