All guides: Landscape Architecture: Material and product information

Databases

Access the following databases with your RMIT library account

Material ConneXion
Material ConneXion is the definitive source to discover and research new and innovative materials and processes from around the world. Architects, engineers and industrial and interior designers can discover materials from a large spectrum of industries typically unnoticed or difficult to reach by the design community.

Higgs materials sustainability index
The Higg Materials Sustainability Index (MSI) provides access to a large amount of relevant information about the impacts of material production used in the apparel, footwear, and home textile industries. You can leverage the information in different ways to get a clear understanding of what is causing different types of material impacts, and different production processes that can be used to reduce those impacts on the environment.

Lifestyle & Interiors (WGSN)
Lifestyle & Interiors is the leading global trend forecasting service and product development tool focused on the ever-evolving needs of the home and interiors industries.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Over 34,000 titles from CRCPress and Routledge.

Websites

Designbook: green magazine
Includes projects from 'Green' magazine, and an extensive listing of supplier products and services to search, collate and share efficiently
Good environmental choice Australia (GECA)
The Australian Ecolabel Program provided by GECA uses standards of environmental performance for different product sectors to verify product compliance for the ecolabel.

Ecospecifier
Welcome to ecospecifier, a knowledge base of over 6000 eco-products, materials, technologies and resources. The leading global source of sustainable, life-cycle assessed green product information including Global GreenTagCertTM certified and rated products. Linking independent information with a powerful search interface, ecospecifier does your materials research for homeowners and professionals alike, delivering innovative sustainable product solutions.

Infolink: Architecture & design
"Australia's largest architecture, building and design industry media resource."
Materia
Materia allows you to search for free across their vast knowledge bank of innovative materials from all over the world.
Selector
Developed in partnership with the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. View photographs, technical data, colours and textures, and much more for thousands of building products.
University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture Materials collection
"All samples ... are searchable online by five categories of criteria: composition, form, process, properties, and application. Each entry includes sample images and dimensions, location and availability in our physical library, manufacturer information, and a list of material attributes."

Centre for Innovative Structures Materials

Xie & Bao, BESO Bridge, n.d. Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials

The Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials (CISM) is led by Yi Min ‘Mike’ Xie who is a Distinguished Professor of RMIT University and an internationally renowned expert in computational design of structures.

Explore their website for information on projects conducted by the team as well as links to publications.

Library subject guides

Landscape Architecture

Databases

Access the following databases with your RMIT library account

Websites

Centre for Innovative Structures Materials