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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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11 November 2010 - Norman Disney & Young makes big claims on its sustainability credentials, so when it sought new corporate offices in Melbourne in 2007, the company’s core values of sustainable initiatives had to be at the forefront of any building... 
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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,”... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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15 March – Case study: Saving energy is not normally linked to the start of the AFL season but that’s what the new redeveloped Gold Coast stadium – home of the appropriately named Gold Coast Suns – is all about. The owner, Stadium Queensland,... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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,... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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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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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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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... 
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CASE STUDY - Architects for the new Faculty of Law  building at the University of Sydney, Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp say this  “international competition-winning proposal transforms the public domain of the heart of the University through the... 
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CASE STUDY – 21 October 2009 - The Australian Bureau of Statistics Central Offices at Belconnen in Canberra had a 4.5 star NABERS Energy base building rating. But its tenancy rating was a below average two stars. The building was a relatively modern... 
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CASE STUDY – 19 October 2009 – If there has been a softening of commitment to high quality green buildings during the recent financial crisis, there is no evidence of this happening with Investa’s latest green showcase, The Ark, in North... 
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