2 November 2010 - Sydney-based landscape architecture and urban design firm, Mcgregor Coxall, has won the International Waterfront Design Honour Award, for its Ballast Point Park project in Birchgrove on Sydney Harbour. Director Philip Coxall of McGregor... 
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Brief – 7 December 2010 - The Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air conditioning and Heating will hold a joint conference with the International Building Performance Simulation Association on 14-16 November at the University of Technology... 
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17 November 2010 - UK building expert Roderic Bunn believes there is an unacceptable disconnect between the design intent of a building and its energy consumption. He also believes that it’s about time the property sector started to emulate the... 
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By Robin Mellon, Green Building Council of Australia 19 November 2010 – The discussion about green roofs and their benefits has been gaining volume in Australia; Green Star certified buildings such as 30 The Bond in Sydney or the Pixel Building... 
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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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From the Australian Institute of Architects: 29 October 2010 - Surry Hills Library and Community Centre, in Sydney, by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp won the Australian Institute of Architects’ national award for sustainable architecture announced... 
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22 October 2010 - AMP’s Australian Core Property Portfolio and Sunsuper’s office building at Milton in Brisbane has been awarded a 5 Star Green Star Office As Built v2 Certified Rating. The Coronation Drive Office Park Building, which has the... 
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By Nicola Woodward FAVOURITES: ANALYSIS – 26 July 2010 – It isn’t every Monday you wake up to the fact that a Sunday press release by the incumbent Government in the run up to a general election contains a promising policy. Yesterday... 
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By Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES – 16 September 2010 – Demolition may have started at the Barangaroo site on Sydney’s old industrial waterfront but it will take a lot more than bulldozers to remove the accusations of lack of transparency in... 
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By Gary Wertheimer FAVOURITES – May 5 2010 – The Building Code of Australia 2010 has been in effect from 1 May. Section J, dealing with energy efficiency, has been updated but few people understand what is involved. The way buildings are... 
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by Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES – 26 August 2009 – Summer is on the way – well it certainly feels that way with Sydney last week experiencing the warmest August temperatures on record – and we haven’t even got to spring yet. And there’s... 
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FAVOURITES – 13 July, 2010 - The number of rating tools, policies, reports, incentives and legal rulings on sustainable residential  development has proliferated in recent years. In this comprehensive work, legal firm Herbert Geer has created clear... 
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By Tina Perinotto 3 September 2010 – The 3rd International Urban Design Conference in Canberra this week finished with a bang, with some nice fiery debate on population and how to shift the anti-development sentiment that in its growing vehemence... 
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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... 
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By Lynne Blundell In the six years since Melbourne-based LAB Architecture Studio started working in China the sustainability landscape has changed dramatically. Other Australians too have found the country moving fast on its sustainability agenda-... 
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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 Lynne Blundell 20 July 2010 – A small Australian manufacturing team is bucking the trend with its linear fluorescent light fitting, using what many consider outdated technology to achieve what it says is a 70 per cent reduction in lighting... 
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A carbon market targeted to the end user might succeed where an emissions trading scheme failed. In property, Landcom’s “powerful” Precinx tool might come in very handy for such a scheme. By Peter Newman and Vanessa Rauland,  of Curtin... 
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Brief – 11 August 2010 – A twin tower development in Singapore designed by designed by Denton Corker Marshall and Architects 61 has been awarded the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Core & Shell Platinum certification by... 
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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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4 August 2010 – The winners of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects international ideas competition SEA-CHANGE 2030+ have been announced. The competition invited design proposals to protect the Sydney harbour foreshore from rising... 
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By Michael Baker 4 August 2010 – There’s an old joke that speaks to the reliability of information received through our own senses compared with that received from what we think are trusted secondary sources. A man named Andy comes home and... 
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By Tina Perinotto 17 March 2010 – Australians could be on the cusp of “getting it” in terms of downsizing their houses to more sustainable and affordable levels, if you take note of Stockland chief executive Matthew Quinn. Mr Quinn, who heads... 
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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 Brian Moore… Sustainability is at the forefront of every significant commercial development. Building owners understand only too well that there is no point building projects for the future using yesterday’s technology and a sustainable... 
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By Andrew Starc 28 July 2010 – The introduction of tougher energy standards for housing has spurred a huge jump in demand for sustainable kit homes for one Queensland company. According to Southport based Nathan Lude, his company Advantage Lifestyle... 
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Tina Perinotto 23 July 2010 - Opposition Leader Tony Abbott this week said he would scrap the Green Building Fund and cut back on other green initiatives if he was elected. Green groups were predictably unimpressed but in the property industry there are... 
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By Andrew Starc 20 July 2010 - Four teams have been shortlisted by Architectural Review Australia to continue through to stage two of Proposition 2065, an ideas competition asking entrants to design a mixed-use development for a site in St Leonards,... 
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Artists impression of an Icebergs site in New York City Brief – 13 July, 2010 – Woods Bagot New York has initiated a  “super-green” building system that reimagines and revitalises stalled construction sites as 100 per cent recyclable,... 
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Brief: 9 July 2010 – Paddington Reservoir Gardens has continued to notch up major awards, the latest an international architecture award from the The Chicago Athenaeum and The Urban Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. Designed... 
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