Brief: 14 December 2010 – Climate Change Minister Greg Combet will be in Newcastle, NSW,  tomorrow to  launch a series of maps to help local governments in coastal communities to prepare for the future impacts of sea level rise due to climate... 
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By Tina Perinotto 25 November 2010 – Ken Maher, chairman of architects Hassell, must be feeling fairly good these days. Here he sits at the top of Australia’s biggest architectural practice by far, with more than 900 employees, which has... 
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By Tina Perinotto 12 December 2010 - A raft of built environment organisations, professionals, academics and corporations has signed an open letter to call for bi-partisan support for urban policy, in the hope that political rivalries will not kill... 
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By Marcus Spiller 10 December 2010 – One of our assignments as town planning students at Melbourne University in the 70s challenged us to devise a strategy to put “urban policy on the front pages of the newspapers.” It was the time... 
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9 December 2010 – An interim rating tool for green infrastructure has been launched by AECOM and the Australian Green Infrastructure Council have unveiled at the recent AGIC National Conference in Brisbane to allow project to be aligned for a good... 
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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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8 December 2010 - The NSW government today paved the way for the next stage of the Frasers Property group’s development at Broadway on the edge of Sydney’s CBD, with approval for two new buildings. The project, now known as Central Park,... 
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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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By Lynne Blundell FAVOURITES – 2 OCTOBER 2009 - A new life cycle assessment tool being developed by a consortium of industry and government bodies is set to raise the sustainability bar for building materials and to push manufacturers to be more... 
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by Peter Fagan FAVOURITES – 3 June 2009 – According to a recent study by researchers at James Cook University and the Australian National University, the Murray Darling Basin, which drives the rural economy of eastern Australia, has lost approximately... 
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By Joel Quintal 2 November 2010 – The UK closely watches sustainability initiatives around the globe and is not shy about throwing its hat into the ring to try out something new. In the first instalment of a two-part series, Jones Lang LaSalle’s... 
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1 December 2010 - Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Greg Combet today announced that solar credits would be phased out a year ahead of schedule, partly because the cost of installing solar panels had dropped. Read More > >  
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By Tina Perinotto 14 October 2010 – Alfonso Ponce Alvarez was one of the speakers at the World Green Building Council Congress in Singapore in September.  He spoke with The Fifth Estate on his work with the United Nations to develop a common carbon... 
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By Tina Perinotto 26 November 2010 – The federal government’s Australian Carbon Trust on Friday announced funding and strategic partnerships that could leverage up to $300 million of energy and other efficiency measures for the property sector... 
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26 November 2010 – Business leaders meeting today in the first sitting of the  Business Roundtable on Climate Change said there was a need for a carbon price to support long-term investment. Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan and Minister for Climate... 
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29 November 2010 –The NSW government late last week passed legislation that will provide easier access to finance for building upgrades, with loans secured alongside council charges and ahead of mortgages along. The move which mirrors legislation... 
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24 November 2010 – The CitySwitch energy efficiency program has announced winners for its Signatory of the Year awards for Queensland, Western Australia the ACT. The ACT government also announced a new 50 per cent rebate for NABERS assessments for... 
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By David Wilson 22 December 2010 - Last year some of Sydney’s most prominent arts personalities debated whether Sydney had lost its cultural edge at the Creative Sydney debate. Moderated by Peter Carr from the Sydney Development Agency, the speakers... 
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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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By Paul Mees 16 November 2010 – Melburnians once needed to visit Europe to be embarrassed at the gap between our public transport and the best in the world. Now we have the Internet. The authority that runs Zurich’s public transport system... 
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By Boris Kelly 15 November 2010 – New York City commissioner of transport Janette Sadik-Khan told a Sydney forum  last week that commercial rents rose 70 per cent in parts of the city after the introduction of bicycle paths and street works designed... 
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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 10 November 2010 – It’s official, the Federal Government will open the flood gate on the next tranche of Green Building Fund money to retrofit existing buildings for greater energy efficiency. But the word is, be quick. Chances... 
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From the Green Building Council of Australia: 5 November 2010: The world is a step closer to a common carbon metric for buildings, with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recognising the need for a unified approach to the reporting... 
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By Lynne Blundell 3 November 2010 – Brett Beeson, ESD and mechanical engineer with Cundall, presented a fascinating case study of seawater cooling used for the Environmental Protection Agency’s building on the edge of Manly Harbour just out... 
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From the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency: 1 November 2010 – The Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Mark Dreyfus, today launched the Commercial Building Disclosure program which commences today.... 
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Warning: 30 October 2010 – It is now too late to avoid global warming of less than 2 per cent and too late to avoid “serious and pervasive ” climate change impacts that would “significantly disrupt the national economy”... 
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Favourites: 28 September 2010 -In this second article of a series of three, Anthony Szatow and George Quezada explore what new business models capable of realising value from distributed energy may look like. The final article will examine the conditions... 
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28 October 2010 – At yesterday’s annual sustainability forum held by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Sydney, the audience heard that some residential real estate agents had noticed a price premium on house sales that had solar... 
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