18 January 2012 – Case study: Blackbutt timber linings and details were used in the refurbishment of the University of Western Sydney’s climate change and energy research centre because of its longevity Read More > >  
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By Amanda Stanaway, Woods Bagot 13 September 2011 – The refurbishment of the GPT Property group headquarters at the MLC building in Sydney’s CBD was a unique challenge and could re-shape industry concepts of older buildings. Read More >... 
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By Lyn Drummond 24 August 2011 – Sustainable features which can double as educational tools have been incorporated in the design of the $20 million Mabel Fidler Resources Hub Building for Ravenswood School for Girls in the northern Sydney suburb of... 
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17 August 2011 – Case study: The time has come when tenants want to know how many bicycle racks there are in a building, rather than car spaces. Read More > >  
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16 August 2011 – Apple’s plans for its new headquarters in Cupertino, California have attracted mixed comments,  from its green credentials (less asphalt,  more trees),  to being  “a self-centered, isolated new office park hidden behind... 
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13 July 2011 – The Australian Conservation Foundation’s head office in Melbourne, the 60L Green Building, was designed to minimise its impact on the environment when it opened in 2002 but has it measured up ? Read More > >  
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By Lyn Drummond 17 May 2011 – Investa’s ARK development in North Sydney and GPT’s 530 Collins Street in Melbourne have won two new sustainability awards included in the Property Council of Australia’s annual Property Council of... 
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By Lynne Blundell A second case study from the Australian Institute of Refrigeration Air Conditioning and Heating, conference, held in September in Melbourne, on the theme of  just how critical good facilities management is for achieving energy efficiency... 
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20 April – Case study: A Perth building has earned the city’s first five star NABERS energy base building rating for a new office development. According to joint owners Hawaiian and Brookfield, the 18,000 square metre, nine level office tower at 235... 
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By Tina Perinotto 31 March  2011 – GPT boss Michael Cameron himself dipped out of his job “making money”, as he put it, to host a sneak preview of the new, six star Green Star-targeted head office of the giant property trust this week. Also... 
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20 April 2011 – Tristram Carfrae, leader global building design for the international engineering and design company, Arup, recently returned to London after 20 years in Australia. He leaves behind an impressive body of work both in this country... 
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24 March 2011 – Case Study: According to mySmart CTI, a Sydney-based company that provides energy efficiency solutions, refurbishment of an art deco heritage building at 99 Macquarie Street in Sydney showed that it was possible to provide the building... 
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3 March 2011 –CASE STUDY: The landmark former Optus Building in North Sydney building has achieved a five star NABERS energy rating following its $40 million refurbishment in 2007-2008. The property at 101 Miller Street, owned by Mirvac Funds Limited... 
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15 February 2011 – Australia’s first five star Green Star social housing project in Sydney’s inner west suburb of Lilyfield was officially launched this week by NSW Minister for Housing Frank Terenzini and Member for Balmain Verity Firth. The... 
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11 May 2011 – Case study: Sydney’s RPAH Medical Centre has dramatically increased its NABERS zero star rating two years ago to four – delivering an overall 40 per cent reduction in energy use, a 20 per cent reduction in water consumption and... 
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6 April – Case study: Energy management software company BuildingIQ claims it has reduced energy costs by up to 30 per cent daily in total base building energy in a trial during event days in the historic Perth Council House The company said it... 
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23 September 2010 – At last the country has its first NABERS Energy and Water rating for a shopping centre. After years in development for the tool, Colonial First State Global Asset Management, has submitted its Grand Plaza Shopping Centre in... 
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By Lynne Blundell 530 Collins Street Melbourne 6 May 2010 – When GPT’s building at 530 Collins Street was coming up to 20 years old, the property group decided it was time for an upgrade with energy performance a key focus. Originally completed... 
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6 October 2010 - A workshop hosted by Paul Edmiston and Lachlan MacDonald of Savills Incoll Australia at the 2010 Sustainable Buildings Conference  highlighted the effect that the drive toward sustainability has had on the property market. The workshop... 
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Case study: 11 November 2010 – HASSELL has won the prestigious World Architecture Festival’s Interiors and Fitout of the Year award for the ANZ Centre in Melbourne’s Docklands. The ANZ Centre, recently won the Emil Sodersten Award for Interior... 
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By Tina Perinotto and Andrew Starc   30 September 2010 - When Mirvac launched its Harmony 9 zero-carbon house in Melbourne, the idea wasn’t to make it the basis for the next tranche of housing product the company would release to the market... 
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Case study -15 September 2010 - Bovis Lend Lease has transformed the new Brisbane headquarters of Australian energy company Santos into one of Queensland’s greenest buildings, incorporating a range of pioneering sustainable features including one of... 
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    8 September 2010 – Brisbane’s Green Square North Tower, a 6 Star Green Star, $94million mixed-use office complex, has become the first commercial building in Australia with an operational co-generation plant to be awarded a 5 Star NABERS... 
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by Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES – 1 October 2009 - The construction of GPT’s sustainable office tower at 111 Eagle St Brisbane is another vote of confidence in the ability of premium sustainable buildings to attract tenants in difficult economic... 
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25 August 2010 – It’s not often that a building exceeds its targetd NABERS Energy rating, but the five-star building at 66 Waterloo Road, at Macquarie Park in Sydney has done just that after a workout by PC Thomas’  Team Catalyst... 
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By Tina Perinotto 12 July 2010 - The GPT Group last week launched the upgrade to its premium-grade office building at 530 Collins Street in Melbourne to an early morning crowd of about 100 people. The tower is expected to score 5 stars for NABERS Energy... 
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11 August 2010 – A lift that generates kinetic energy is one of the features that helped the Asia Square twin tower development in Singapore win a Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Core & Shell Platinum certification by the US Green... 
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By Andrew Starc 28 July 2010 – Design team Woods Bagot and Buro Happold have launched a zero energy, carbon neutral sustainable development project to be piloted on China’s Yangtze River. Zero Emissions Design (Zero-E) is designed as a new model... 
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By Andrew Starc 29 June 2010 –Westfield Group’ refurbished 100 Market Street commercial tower, part of its major Sydney CBD redevelopment project, has achieved a six-star Green Star Design v2 rating from the Green Building Council of Australia. With... 
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Brief – 25 June, 2010 – SA Water House, which won the Development of the Year at the Property Council’s annual Rider Levett Bucknall Innovation and Excellence Awards, was developed by the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide in collaboration with architecture... 
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