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 times. The building, touted to be one of Australia’s most sustainable office developments ...Read More > >

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 consultancy. Develped by Stockland and designed Team Catalyst, the 10,000 ...Read More > >

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 after a major refurbishment that includes ...Read More > >

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 Building Council. Developed by MPGA and designed by Denton ...Read More > >

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 for large-scale sustainable developments, aiming to advance the construction industry’s contribution ...Read More > >

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 a total area of 30,000 square metres of office space below Sydney Tower, ...Read More > >

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 firm HASSELL and builders Hansen Yuncken,. SA Water House was the ...Read More > >

By Andrew Starc 25 June 2010 - Bond University’s Mirvac School of Sustainable Development building has been awarded the United Nations Association of Australia World Environment Day Szencorp Green Building Award. The first educational building in Australia to achieve a 6 Star Green Star – Education Pilot Certified Rating for its sustainable ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 10 June 2010 - ING Office Fund and Mirvac  are set for a $60 million transformation of their jointly owned 20 Bond Street building, in Sydney’s CBD financial district, in a project that will target  targeted a 5 Star NABERS Energy rating and a new trigeneration plant for ...Read More > >

9 June, 2010 - CSR’s new headquarters in Sydney’s north-west has achieved a 5 Star Green Star – Office Interiors v1, with features projected to cut carbon emissions by 50 per cent in the first year. The offices are in the Triniti III building in Stockland Triniti campus, and the rating ...Read More > >

CASE STUDY: 18 May 2010 – The Australian representation at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 has showcased its sustainability credentials by designing a pavilion boasting a number of sustainable features. Running under the theme “Better City, Better Life,” more than 70 million visitors are expected to visit this year’s expo from ...Read More > >

CASE STUDY: 17 May 2010 - Two of Singapore’s major shopping centres managed and co-owned by Lend Lease group have this year become the first mixed use developments to be awarded the Singapore Building and Construction Authority’s Green Mark Platinum Award – existing building category.  Following is a case study of ...Read More > >

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 in 1989, it is a landmark building with approximately 68,335 ...Read More > >

By Andrew Starc 7 April 2010 – Parsons Brinckerhoff has opened its new sustainable Melbourne office space at Southbank to accommodate rapid staff growth. PB Regional Director for Victoria John Theodoulou said the company had appointed 30 per cent more staff in Melbourne since January 2009. ”This new space is part ...Read More > >

By Andrew Starc CASE STUDY - 6 April 2010 - Sydney Water has bolstered its  environmental credentials with their newly built corporate headquarters at Parramatta earning a 5 Star Green Star - Office As Built v2 rating by the Green Building Council of Australia. The One Smith Street building, designed by Denton ...Read More > >

By Andrew Starc CASE STUDY - 2 April 2010 - Charter Hall’s new Home HQ North Shore has set a new benchmark for sustainable retail outlets by becoming the first bulky goods store in Australia to earn a 4-star Green Star Retail Centre v1 certified rating. Located in Artarmon on Sydney’s Lower ...Read More > >

FAVOURITES - 10 August 2009 - Winner of the Sustainable Architecture Award at the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) Victorian Chapter Awards was Lend Lease building, The Gauge. Located in Victoria Harbour in the Docklands precinct, construction of the project commenced in 2005 and was completed in April 2008 and achieved ...Read More > >

Pixel on Grocon's Melbourne Carlton brewery site, designed by Studio 505: a laboratory for new green architecture ... “Nobody can tell you accurately what the financial impost will be of the cost of a carbon constrained economy,” says David Waldren by Tina Perinotto FAVOURITES - 6 May ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto CASE STUDY - 11 February 2010 - CFS Retail Property Trust and the Gandel Group has swept aside the challenges of going green for retail property, winning the first 5 Star Green Star for retail centres in Australia for the massive Chadstone Shopping Centre. The top green rating ...Read More > >

By Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES: 5 November 2009 - The Southport Broadwater Parklands project may well be a blueprint for adaptive planning solutions to combat sea level rise and storm surge on our coastlines. It involved some creative methods, including raising ground levels in some places by two metres. With its spectacular Nerang ...Read More > >

FAVOURITES - 30 July 2010 - Smart Design Studio took out two awards at the NSW Architecture Awards 2009, with two separate entries. One was a project for the Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA) by Smart Design Studio won the Milo Dunphy Award for Sustainable Architecture. Interestingly the client chose not ...Read More > >

FAVOURITES -  23 April 2009 - Woolworths has set the sustainable property bar high for retail, aiming for carbon emissions cuts of 40 per cent by 2015 and water savings of 200 million litres per year, Woolworths’ environmental advisor,  Kane Hardingham, told delegates at the Energy Efficiency Forum, held in Sydney ...Read More > >

FAVOURITES - 30 July 2009 -The Ecovillage at Currumbin on the southern Gold Coast is in its final development phase, 14 years after the idea was first hatched by Landmatters’ Chris Walton, Kerry Shepherd and Colin Bear. Located in the Currumbin Valley, The Ecovillage claims to have “pioneered how we must ...Read More > >

CASE STUDY - 27 August 2009 - Who says a fast-designed, fast built school constructed under the federal government’s Building the Education Revolution program, can’t be sustainable and innovative. At Ultimo in Sydney’s inner west a new primary school library and multi-purpose hall designed by Allen Jack+Cottier will feature a “kit ...Read More > >

CASE STUDY - 14 December 2009 - The tension between the preservation of heritage buildings and sustainable outcomes often leads to a minefield. But at the The Victorian Railways No.2 Goods Shed in Melbourne’s Docklands, Lorenz Grollo’s Equiset and VicUrban, the Building Commission and the Plumbing Industry Commission have proved ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 10 December 2009 - ANZ House at 11 Waymouth Street Adelaide has been awarded a 5 star NABERS rating for its second year of operation, increasing its target outcomes in the process. According to Matthew Salisbury director of WSP Lincolne Scott, which designed the building services, ANZ House achieved ...Read More > >

CASE STUDY: 3 December 2009 - Singapore-based architecture firm WOHA has won multiple awards for its sustainable designs. Following is a profile of Newton Suites which was recently recognised for its sustainability achievements by the Australian Institute of Architects. This 36-storey development is a study in environmental solutions to tropical high-rise ...Read More > >

Perth officer tower Central Park has offset carbon emissions generated by the building's core services through the purchase of greenhouse friendly carbon credits,  the owners of the building, Perron Group and Frasers Centrepoint, say in the following case study: The building’s Carbon Neutral Program, which excludes areas occupied by the tenants, ...Read More > >

by Nick Jones CASE STUDY - 5 November 2009 - How to deal with an existing and ageing national building stock designed and built in times when requirements for high standards of energy efficiency were not even contemplated? This a dilemma facing the architects of energy efficiency programs here in Australia ...Read More > >

By Tina Perinotto 6 November 2009 - One of Australia’s most magical, charming and sustainable buildings, designed for a  very low budget, has won the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards, sports section, announced today in Barcelona. Two other Australian firms also won in their categories - Sydney based Choi Ropiha, with ...Read More > >