By Lynne Blundell 16 February 2012 ­– The use of life cycle assessment in the building products industry has suffered a setback with the winding back of the Building Products Innovation Council from the end of this month. While the BPIC board says... 
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16 February 2012 – EP and T has been awarded ISO9001:2008 accreditation. The international quality management accreditation includes the delivery of energy conservation and environmental solutions including design, manufacture, sale, installation, commissioning... 
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By Lyn Drummond 16 February 2012 – Brisbane’s Mater Hospital is an example of the benefits of using water based paints with no volatile organic compounds – wards stayed open, odours didn’t linger, and it was safe for asthma sufferers, the pregnant... 
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By Lynne Blundell 8 February 2012 – Geothermal systems are the latest technology to be embraced by wealthy residential clients who wish to be green leaders, according to architect Luigi Rosselli, with one of the firm’s Sydney clients... 
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7 February 2012: From Roads Australia News – Australian and New Zealand road agencies have jointly funded a project to develop a common approach to the assessment of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the design, construction and operation of... 
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31 January 2012 – Airconditioning industry suppliers are still cheating in their performance claims according to the Australian Duct Manufacturer’s Alliance  which blames the government for failing to end the practice. ADMA’s chairman, Paul Sterling... 
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23 January 2012 – The Green Building Council of Australia will recognise products certified against Good Environmental Choice Australia’s hard surfacing standard level A – entitling conforming products to 100 per cent of available Green Star points. This... 
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18 January 2012 – Norman Disney & Young, e + architecture and quantity surveyors Rider Levett Bucknall have joined forces to help building owners assess their options in response to the commercial building disclosure legislation and to support the... 
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18 January  2011 – Real estate consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle has reached its goal of 1000 energy and sustainability accredited professionals in 29 countries one year early because of strong client demand. In Asia Pacific the firm has more than 180... 
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20 December 2011: The Green Building Council of Australia has wrapped the year with 100 Green Star buildings certified, the highest in any one year. GBCA chief executive Romilly Madew said more than 390 buildings had achieved Green Star ratings, with... 
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By Tina Perinotto 13 December 2011 – Landcom’s PRECINX tool has notched up its first licensed customer in its plans to roll out more widespread use of its groundbreaking sustainability rating Read More > >  
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By Lynne Blundell 2 November 2011 – There are signs that some in the property sector may be outgrowing current sustainability ratings schemes, with several organisations signing up for certification programs that are pushing the sustainability boundaries... 
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By Lyn Drummond 22 November 2011 – With three new projects now certified under the latest EnviroDevelopment standards, national manager Kirsty Chessher says she hopes more than 50 to have qualified within 12 months. Read More > >  
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2 November 2011 – Low Carbon Australia has revamped the online guide for the voluntary carbon market, the Carbon Offset Guide, which will include information on the Carbon Farming Initiative . The result of a partnership between Low Carbon Australia,... 
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By Tina Perinotto 1 December 2011  – The Property Council of Australia has raised the bar on quality office buildings. Sustainably. Its latest review of the quality office matrix, released today (Thursday) has made it official that a prime rated building... 
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By Tina Perinotto 17 November 2011 – Does it sound strange that we are still reviewing NABERS? The energy (and other environmental metric) rating system that started out so long ago is currently being re-reviewed, this time by the Australian Institute... 
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15 November 2011 – Commercial real estate agencies can source the energy efficiency of properties and match them with tenant requirements according to the claims of a new cloud–based software with Surga Central, developed by Adept Business Systems... 
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3 November 2011 – Sydney based EP&T Global, chaired by former Sydney 2000 Olympic Games chief executive Sandy Holloway, has been appointed to a major energy savings project in a major new development in Dubai. Mr Holloway said the Dubai contract... 
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2 November 2011 ­– National Building Specification ­ – NATSPEC – has released a national guide to building information modelling that it says will help clients and consultants reduce confusion and inconsistencies. NATSPEC said the National BIM... 
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By Tina Perinotto 26 October 2011 – A new wind turbine whose manufacturers claim is “almost silent” has been launched at Geelong in Victoria and is attracting significant attention, amid a recent backlash against wind power generation in... 
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26 October 2011 – From The Guardian UK ­ – Cement is to our buildings as corn is to our food supply. Just as corn is an ingredient in countless food products, cement is a building block for much of what is around us: Read More > >  
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13 October 2011 ­ From Sustainable Business News: The US Green Building Council is implementing major upgrades in LEED certification standards for buildings in 2012 in response to criticisms. Critics say LEED ratings don’t go far enough –... 
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Here is a guide to green roofs from  greenroofs.tv, a video channel devoted to greenroofs and greenwalls from Greenroofs.com and across the globe.  
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By Scott Willey 22 November 2010 –  Favourites: The Building Code of Australia has controlled the energy efficiency of glazing in office buildings since 2006. It is the tightening of the control in the 2010 provisions of Section J that could toll... 
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By Tina Perinotto 23 September 2011 – The bar for sustainable property reporting world-wide  just got higher, thanks to the new reporting guidance for the property construction sector released today (Thursday) by the highly regarded Global Reporting... 
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By Tina Perinotto 21 September 2011 – News today (Wednesday) that one of Australia’s most highly rated green buildings under construction in Canberra for the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency will use high greenhouse gas emission... 
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By Tina Perinotto 14 September 2011 ­– If there were any green building deniers still out there in property world, Monday’s release of the latest research by the Australian Property Institute and the Property Funds Association of Australia... 
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13 September 2011 – Coles, McDonald’s, Stockland and Rock Development Group have collaborated with the Green Building Council of Australia to develop custom-built Green Star rating tools outside the scope of the current Green Star system. GBCA’s... 
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By Lyn Drummond 14 September 2011 – Australian banks have rated highly in the latest Carbon Disclosure Global 500 Report with Westpac Banking Corporation ranked one of the top 10 companies in both the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index and the Carbon... 
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12 September 2011 – Stockland has been named the world’s most sustainable property company in the highly regarded Dow Jones Sustainability Index for 2011-2012. The index evaluates the corporate governance, risk management, climate change mitigation... 
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