1 February 2012- Boral is holding its annual Boral Design Award competition for architects, building designers and architectural students. Applicants will need to adapt an existing city fringe property into a medium density residential or mixed-use development,... 
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1 February 2012 – The Alternative Technology Association with the support of bankmecu is conducting speed dating events in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in 2012 to help homeowners planning to renovate or build sustainability to find an appropriate... 
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1 February 2012 – MWH sustainable engineering company has donated $US50,000 to The Energy and Resources Institute to bring solar lighting to rural India. The institute supports the Lighting a Billion Lives program which sets up a solar charging station... 
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30 January 2012 – WSP Built Ecology has achieved its 200th Green Star with the award of the 500 Bourke St As-Built rating – a project which began in 2007 and is the Melbourne headquarters for the NAB. The company has achieved a 100 per cent success... 
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27 January 2012 – Stockland has added another notch to its awards belt with a position on the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World compiled by Corporate Knights magazine, announced at the 2012 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Stockland... 
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26 January 2012 – Order of Australia recipients are today calling for a nuclear weapons treaty. The 706 prominent AO recipients have endorsed a statement supporting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s call for negotiations on a treaty to outlaw and... 
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24 January 2012 – A total of 784 schools have each been awarded grants of up to $50 000 under the  2011-12 national solar schools program, Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Mark Dreyfus said today. The funds will help... 
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24 January 2012 – When councils delegate planners to make development decisions major projects accelerate, a report by Urbis on the performance of inner Sydney councils says. Tom Goode, writing in the January issue of Urbis Insights, says a less interventionist... 
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23 January 2012 – The Green Building Council of Australia will recognise products certified against Good Environmental Choice Australia’s hard surfacing standard level A – entitling conforming products to 100 per cent of available Green Star points. This... 
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18 January 2012 – Norman Disney & Young, e + architecture and quantity surveyors Rider Levett Bucknall have joined forces to help building owners assess their options in response to the commercial building disclosure legislation and to support the... 
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18 January  2011 – Real estate consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle has reached its goal of 1000 energy and sustainability accredited professionals in 29 countries one year early because of strong client demand. In Asia Pacific the firm has more than 180... 
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15  December 2011 – Engineering consultancy Norman Disney & Young  has established  the NDY Charitable Trust to support needy communities. “We are currently supporting the work of Disaster Aid Australia and the Skyjuice Foundation and discussions... 
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14 December 2011 –Three Berliners have earmarked a massive former factory roof to produce both vegetables and fish for local residents. The Frisch vom Dach, or Fresh from the Roof project, plans to create a 7,000-square-metre roof garden, complete with... 
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Former editor of Architecture Australia  Justine Clark has recently issued a call for expressions of interest in a new publication on behalf of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia that will look at design research in the built environment... 
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14 December 2011 – The Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating has signed a memorandum of understanding with the WA Office of Energy – the first the institute has signed with a state based energy authority. AIRAH chief... 
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12 December 2011 – Nominations are being called for the $1million 2012 global energy prize. It will be awarded at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, in June 2012. See  
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12 December 2011 – Hunter Valley Wine Industry Association’s committee wants to oust AGL as a member because of its lack of collaboration with the wine industry. HVWIA president, Mr Andrew Margan, said: “The HVWIA accepted AGL as a member in 2010... 
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12 December 2011 – A conference on homelessness run by The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology is inviting abstracts on themes including cost benefit evaluations of homelessness. The following... 
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8 December 2011 – Australian Living, a leading Sustainable Building Consultancy, has developed a website called Your Future Home (www.yourfuturehome.com.au) to guide consumers as the first step guide to renovate or build a home. It breaks down the... 
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7 December 2011 – CBRE has been appointed to manage Stockland’s office and industrial portfolio in one of the largest property outsourcing mandates in Australia. The $3 billion portfolio has a total net lettable area of circa 1.5 million square metres... 
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7 December – A team of students at Byron Bay Study Audio Engineering Institute in NSW have won the Total Environment Centre’s Cool Planet short film award with Think Outside the Box. The Audience Award winner of the 12 month “Manage Your Film  Production”... 
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6 December 2011 – Australia has announced it will support an innovative project to green an entire street in a disadvantaged South African community as the United Nation’s  COP17 climate change summit ends on Friday. Australia is supporting the... 
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5 December 2011 – Stockland is outsourcing the management of its office and Industrial assets to CBRE from March next year. Outsourcing would improve efficiency and support the growth of Stockland’s core businesses – residential communities, retail... 
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5 December 2011 – The Sunshine Coast is pursuing an affordable living plan to deal with more than 1 million people expected to settle in South East Queensland in the next 20 years and a projection of 98,000 new dwellings on the Coast. The Sunshine Coast... 
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24 November 2011 – The South Australia government on Wednesday announced the fourth round of the $2 million Building Innovation Fund is now open for offers. Big Switch marketing and communications manager Caroline Nefiodovas told clients in a briefing... 
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23 November 2011 – Wollongong Central shopping area will be extended including more food stores and 80 specialty shops in a $200 million investment by the GPT Wholesale Shopping Centre Fund. Matthew Faddy, fund manager for GWSCF said: “The 18,000... 
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22 November 2011 – The charity 1 Million Women is organising an event in Sydney on Wednesday 14 December which highlights energy savings. Various guests will encourage a take-home action plan to save $1000 or more next year on energy, waste and pollution... 
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22 November 2011 – A Melbourne workshop with the theme, designing the dynamic, is being held from today until Friday by architecture firm BVN. Computational design will be used in the production and testing of physical artefacts that bring together... 
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22 November 2011 from ABC online – Germany has just crossed the threshold of 20 per cent renewable power, honouring its 2020 commitment to the European Union eight years ahead of schedule. As a bonus, towards the end of the decade, the world will also... 
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17 November 2011  – The Economist has jumped in to show that despite the massive failure of a co-ordinated climate policy approach by leading world governments, the leading private sector is doing its own thing, surging ahead in some cases with major... 
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