Job News - Where they're going - What they're saying... 2 September 2010 - Alex McKenna has left her role as sustainability manager for Dexus, and is about to embark on a new role, still hush hush for now. Ms McKenna was with Dexus for two and half years, and prior to ...Read More > >

By Ken Maher Following is the AS Hook Memorial Address delivered by Australian Institute of Architects 2009  Gold Medalist, Ken Maher. FAVOURITES: 29 October 2009 - I believe designing in the future will need to be an organic process, an ecological process, where landscape and nature are integrated and interpreted. This will ...Read More > >

by Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES - 25 February 2010 - Christoph Ingenhoven, principal of German architectural firm Ingenhoven Architects, had the audience at Green Cities 2010 spellbound during an impressive presentation of his firm’s cutting edge sustainable architecture. He and his team have designed buildings for cities around the world, collectively winning ...Read More > >

Green roofs, massive wetlands with nesting boxes to attract birdlife, locally generated power, on-site bore water and the creation of local employment these are just part of the mix in the regeneration practiced in the UK by Tom Bloxham. By Lynne BlundellFAVOURITES: 29 April 2010 -Tom ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 25 August 2010 - Corin Millais, Mirvac’s relatively new sustainability manager, comes with an impressive background. He was at the lead of intensive campaigns for renewable energy by Greenpeace. He took the European Wind Energy Association in Brussels from a three-person operation to a turnover of 7-8 million Euro ...Read More > >

FAVOURITES -  20 May 2010 - Early this year leading Sydney planner and vocal advocate for planning reform in NSW Julie Bindon joined The Fifth Estate on a mini scouting expedition to Melbourne to see if the Victorians could shed any light on better planning systems. As part of this expedition ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 19 August 2010 - Lend Lease's Chris Carolan is a happy man right now. He's heading up a new company venture that has the potential to transform the average Australian's view of renewable energy, by making it safer, cheaper and easier to have a mini-solar energy plant on ...Read More > >

Job newsManagement appointments at SKM Leading global engineering, sciences and project delivery firm Sinclair Knight Merz have announced three appointments to its senior management team. Geoff Linke has been appointed General Manager, Strategy after several successful years as General Manager, Water & Environment. Mr Linke has more than 25 years experience in ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 4 August 2010 - Global property giant Lend Lease yesterday signalled green property leadership was back on the strategic business agenda with its appointment of two founders of the world-wide green building movement – Australian Ché Wall and Canadian Joe Van Belleghem. The two will join the global ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto FAVOURITES 17 December 2009 - Greg Paramor might well be known as one of property’s original Midas men. He has founded a string of successful property companies – Growth Equities Mutual, Paladin and James Fielding and headed the giant Mirvac for four years until 2008. Better still, he seems ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto FAVOURITES - 10 September 2009 -Picture this: an apartment tower constructed entirely in a factory — right down to the base fit-out and even the defects’’ rectification. The walls built of new lightweight materials, pre-insulated. The whole thing shifted like Lego blocks and assembled on site, in Little ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 7 July, 2010 - Leading catalyst for the sustainable property movement Ché Wall has stepped down as managing director of WSP Lincolne Scott after 17 years with the company. Replacing him will be Andrew Mather who has been managing director of the group for the Africa, Asia and Australia ...Read More > >

By Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES - 15 April 2010 -Susan Roaf doesn’t have much time for architects. She thinks that most are little more than “building hairdressers” and she accuses the profession of undermining the fight against climate change. Roaf, a well known architect, author on sustainable buildings, and a professor of architectural ...Read More > >

by Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES: 1 July 2010 - Romilly Madew has a lot on her plate. As CEO of the Green Building Council of Australia, Madew is leading a major restructure of the organisation, which she acknowledges is at a crossroads and is in the process of redefining itself. It has ...Read More > >

By Andrew Starc 29 June 2010 - Melissa Neighbour is one of a new breed of sustainably minded influences about to re-shape the residential real estate landscape. Recently appointed to the new position of sustainability manager for LJ Hooker, Neighbour, among her other sustainability interests, will spearhead a sustainability vision that the company ...Read More > >

By Andrew Starc 2 June 2010 - At the Australian Real Estate Conference held in May this year, guest speaker and climate change campaigner Sir Bob Geldof was asked an all too common question. “What more can I do?” inquired Sydney real estate agent Lisa Roberts, who has pioneered the promotion of ...Read More > >

by Lynne Blundell Warren Ebert has strong opinions about green buildings. As principal of Queensland property investment company, Sentinel Asset Management, he believes in them because they make financial sense – they save money because they are energy efficient and because tenants want to be in them. What he isn’t happy about ...Read More > >

By Jenny Towndrow 6 May 2010 - Arup was founded by the visionary Ove Arup in 1946 and is arguably one of the world’s most creative and innovative structural engineering firms. For more than 60 years the firm has been working with the great names in architecture, engaged in problem solving ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 14 April 2010 - Anita Mitchell was today confirmed as Lend Lease’s sustainability manager for Barangaroo. The move comes after nearly two years as head of energy and sustainability services at Jones Lang LaSalle. In the end, Ms Mitchell told The Fifth Estate this afternoon, the objectives for Barangaroo to ...Read More > >

By Andrew Starc 31 March 2010 - Projectors, microphones and surround-sound hi-fi systems are not uncommon in the boardrooms and theatres of large office buildings yet, more often than not, audio-visual technology is overlooked as a key component of creating a green building. Now, with advances in the control and intelligence of ...Read More > >

Antony Hing was one of the featured guests at an green building fringe event held in Melbourne in February to co-incide with  Green Cities 2010 conference. By Andrew Starc - 25 March 2010 - Since its widespread establishment in the late 1990s, the internet has opened up a limitless avenue of potential ...Read More > >

FAVOURITES: 4 March 2010 - Susan Roaf  is a UK academic who designed and lives in the well known Oxford Ecohouse. Her passion is help blend the architecture and engineering professions to achieve buildings that operate on a tenth of energy for comparable buildings; a single payment package might help. ...Read More > >

4 February 2010 - Daniel Labbad, Lend Lease chief executive officer, Europe, has been nominated to the chair of the UK Green Building Council, capping a week of major wins on the international stage for Australia’s sustainable property industry. Yesterday TFE announced Maria Atkinson, global head of sustainability for Lend Lease, ...Read More > >

By Lynne Blundell There is a new mantra in sustainable engineering and design – “keep it simple and make sure it works in the real world”, says WSP Lincolne Scott and Advanced Environmental director, Matthew Jessup. It is a philosophy, he believes, that will help new developments meet the growing emphasis ...Read More > >

27 January 2010 - The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors took part in CONSTRU India in Mumbai in December 2009 with a presentation on "Challenges and Opportunities in Green Buildings in India". Following are highlight from that presentation. Sachin Sandhir, Managing Director and Country Head of RICS India stressed ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto The Centre for Sustainability Leadership is searching for the next 25 people who can change the world - or try to. On offer is a full scholarship - worth $15,000 - for an intensive seven month course that will teach the participants leadership skills in 19 core competencies including ...Read More > >

by Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES - 15 July 2010 - Amanda McCluskey is a woman on the move – literally. When she did this interview with The Fifth Estate she was walking between engagements, on her way to an international corporate governance forum, and later attending a forum on the United Nations ...Read More > >

Sustainability in a company like Bovis Lend Lease needs to permeate every nook and cranny of the business, writes Tina Perinotto “You can have a passion about the planet, but still not know what to do,” According to Ann Austin, sustainability manager for Bovis Lend Lease. Austin has been with Bovis (or ...Read More > >

by Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES - 5 May 2009 - Caroline Noller of GPT is second in our series of profiles on the new breed of sustainability managers.... When Caroline Noller was constructing cities out of soap boxes as a child she thought only about the excitement of creating buildings and roads. The displacement ...Read More > >

The Telstra Women’s Business Awards, NSW, in October, was pause for a little contemplation on the status of women in business, writes Lisa Tarry The buzz in the air that only a room full of driven, successful women can create was electrifying. The recent Telstra Women’s Business Awards celebrated achievements by ...Read More > >