From CNN: 3 February 2011 – Could a floating dome that can house up to 10,000 people be a model for future living?
Russian architect Alexander Remizov thinks so — and his prototype design, called “The Ark,” bears more than a passing...
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28 January 2011 – The federal government should fund the flood recovery program by ending fossil fuel tax breaks and subsidies that cost the Australia taxpayer $5 billion a year and go mostly to the pockets of the mining industry, the Australian...
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28 January 2011 – An Australian solar hot water supplier has reassured consumers that the cuts to green programs announced on Thursday to help pay for the Queensland floods will not affect the federal government’s solar hot water rebates.
National...
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28 January 2011 – Green Building Council of Australia and World Green Building Council chair Tony Arnel this week told the G’Day USA conference in Boston that the business case for green buildings was increasingly compelling but that several...
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27 January 2011 –The Government will spend $5.6 billion to rebuild flood-affected regions across Australia, PM Julia Gillard announced today.
The funds will be delivered through a one year levy on people earning more than $50 000, abolishing certain...
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By Tina Perinotto
21 January 2011 –21 January 2011 –As the damage from the Queensland floods becomes clearer calls are emerging for rebuilding and repairs to be more sustainable and resilient and at least one sustainability consultancy is offering...
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From Climate Spectator – 23 January 2011 – It seems that governments everywhere are continuing to grossly underestimate the enthusiasm for rooftop solar.
The NSW government has been so overwhelmed by applications to install rooftop solar...
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By Leon Gettler
Special report: 21 January 2011 – With more extreme weather events expected, the Queensland flood crisis could represent the “new normal” that will challenge the property market. Experts have told The Fifth Estate that planning...
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By Tina Perinotto
23 January 2011 – Adelaide might have ranked best city in Australia to live and Sydney worst in a wide-ranging survey from the Property Council of Australia but among some controversial findings was encouraging strong support...
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By Tina Perinotto
10 September 2009 – Favourites: 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....
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21 January 2011 – The Gold Coast City Council said on Friday that its Hinze Dam was “good planning” and would help protect the city from floods, as it released what it said were among Australia’s most sophisticated flood maps.
The...
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By Lyn Drummond
19 January 2011 – Architects will propose to the Queensland government that building design be considered in its terms of reference for its Commission of Inquiry into the Queensland floods, as industry bodies respond to the crisis.
According...
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19 January 2011 – An innovative social network website SolaMaps is connecting solar power users around the world.
“While NASA and Google provided snapshots of the Earth brilliantly lit by the burning glow of consuming energy, SolaMaps...
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18 January 2011 – Australia’s GDP may fall and vegetable prices will soar, but some industries are poised to benefit from the flood disaster in Queensland and northern NSW, according to business information analysts IBISWorld.
IBISWorld today...
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By Tina Perinotto
14 January 2011 – The Planning Institute of Australia said on Friday that the Queensland flood crisis had focused the need for climate change to be considered in planning for the future and proved that modern planning protocols...
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By Keith Orchison
13 January 2011 – From Business Spectator – A question mark hangs over the future of one of Australia’s largest power generators as we enter the new year and a new decade – and because of this there is also a query...
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13 January 2011- Jerry Yudelson, leading US green building and sustainability consultant and a speaker at last year’s Green Cities 2010 conference in Melbourne has released a list of top worldwide green building trends for 2011.
“What we’re...
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By Michael Mobbs
23 December 2010 -
“The underlying problem is confoundingly simple: agricultural methods that lose soil faster than it is replaced destroy societies” – David Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
I saw white...
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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,...
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By Lynne Blundell
25 November 2010 – Better air quality, views, large windows, patient and staff focus – not doctors – and cities within cities…it’s all part of an evolving greener profile for hospitals.
Hospitals...
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By Tina Perinotto
2 December 2010 – The federal government yesterday released the most important document in national urban planning since the Whitlam years – a discussion paper on options for how to manage growth and sustainability for Australia’s...
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15 December 2010 - Federal Climate Change Minister Greg Combet today released new maps produced in partnership with the Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information that identify the impacts of rising sea levels on low-lying areas in Melbourne,...
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By Lynne Blundell
AIRAH conference 2010, Melbourne – 30 September 2010 – If there was a key theme at the Australian Institute of Refrigeration Air Conditioning and Heating, conference, held in September in Melbourne, it was just how critical...
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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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By Tina Perinotto
24 November 2010 – Gavin Gilchrist’s Big Switch Projects has increased staff levels this year after a moderate uptick in demand for energy audits following the introduction of the mandatory disclosure regime.
The requirements...
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By Tina Perinotto
18 December 2010 – Pritzker Prize winning architect Frank Gehry was in Sydney this week to officially introduce his contribution to Sydney’s skyline with a new business school at the University of Technology Sydney.
Sustainable...
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22 December 2010 – A number of companies with Australian connections have won awards in the UK’s prestigious Building Magazine Sustainability awards held in conjunction with the UK Green Building Council.
Winners include Cundall which was...
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By Lynne Blundell
FAVOURITES – 18 October 2010 – AIRAH conference - There was no shortage of cutting edge technology discussed at AIRAH’s Achieving the green dream conference- tomorrow’s technology today. An impressive array of technologies...
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By Amy Kelly
15 December 2010 - Property Developer Stockland has won the inaugural national award for office energy efficiency after reducing carbon emissions by 800 tonnes a year and saving $90,000 in energy bills through the CitySwitch program.
Stockland...
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