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By Willow Aliento
1 May 2014 — A new Business of Sustainability website developed by Consult Australia to assist professional services firms navigate the process of going green has been released.
By Willow Aliento
28 April 2014 — The announcement of a senate inquiry into Australia’s innovation system is an opportunity to insist the Federal Government put sustainability front and centre, according to Australia’s peak engineering body.
24 April 2014 — China’s WinSun Engineering Design decoration Company has successfully utilised 3D printing to build 10 full-size 200 square metre prototype homes in a single day using 100 per cent recycled materials, according to 3Ders.org.
By Willow Aliento
24 April 2014 — The student accommodation sector is in the middle of a boom, with new operators such as Iglu and Campus Living Villages delivering sound returns to investors like Macquarie Bank and the superannuation funds.
By Leon Gettler
15 April 2014 — Public transport of the future is likely to be faster and greener. Many cities around the world have public transport infrastructure that’s been in place for over a century, and some radical plans are in the works that will redefine our notion of how we get around.
16 April 2014 — Windows that generate solar power could be a step closer to reality, thanks to research on quantum dots. Researchers from Italy and the US found that the superior light-emitting properties of quantum dots – ultra-small bits of semiconductor matter – could be applied to solar energy production by helping more efficiently […]
By Willow Aliento
3 April 2014 – WT Sustainability already had Australia’s most energy-efficient office fitout, yet the company still found ways to reduce power use by a further 13 per cent.
By Siân Willmott, GIW Environmental Solutions
2 April 2014 — There has been much confusion within the development industry between architects, services engineers, ESD consultants, other design consultants and planning authorities as to which hot water systems are most suitable for a development, particularly within the multi-unit residential sector.
By Cameron Jewell
27 March 2014 — McGraw Hill Construction has released a report on building information modelling in Australian and New Zealand economies, finding that the region is an international leader in BIM adoption, though barriers still need to be overcome, and a government mandate would help.
By Cameron Jewell
25 March 2014 — RMIT University has announced a $98 million plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across its campuses, which it claims is the largest project of its kind in the southern hemisphere.
By Cameron Jewell
18 March 2014 — Austral has become the first company to create bricks and pavers certified as carbon neutral under the government’s national Carbon Offset Standard.
By Willow Aliento
18 March 2014 — A new online platform is giving business, planners, architects and educational institutions the ability to quickly and cost-effectively assess options for building – and living – within the earth’s finite resources.
The online sustainability calculation system and software platform has been developed by Dr Caroline Noller’s The Footprint Company.
By Leon Gettler
18 March 2014 — 3D printing has the potential to revolutionise urban sustainability. It will see houses and offices created with less waste, CO2 emissions and transport. 3D printing will make manufacturing and construction sustainable for the first time ever.
By Cameron Jewell
12 March 2014 — Billions in travel and energy costs could be saved and carbon emissions reduced if Australia invests in information communication technology, a Telstra report suggests.
By Suzanne Benn and Patrick Crittenden, University of Technology, Sydney
26 February 2014 — The debate about the future of Australia’s Renewable Energy Target (RET) has largely focused on the issue of immediate costs to business. But if we’re thinking about Australia’s long-term economic interests, there are a number of reasons why leaving the target as it is makes good business sense.
By Tony Arnel, Norman Disney & Young
25 February 2014 — Modular construction can deliver a six per cent reduction in costs, according to research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US. In a market where a one per cent saving can mean the difference between profit and loss, modular makes business sense. And, in a world of finite resources, modular makes environmental sense.
By Willow Aliento
19 February 2014 — Energy efficiency technology provider BuildingIQ is expanding its Australian project base, as strategic partnerships with Schneider Electric and AE Smith open up new opportunities.
18 February 2014 — The Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Airconditioning and Heating is helping to develop a rating tool for HVAC systems it hopes will have a “profound impact” on building energy use and costs. The Calculating Cool Online HVAC Rating Tool captures quantitative and qualitative data across design, installation and operational phases to “rate, reward and encourage” best-practice HVAC systems.
18 February 2014 — Curtin University researchers have found a way to create rechargeable batteries with greater capacity, which they say could transform the electric vehicle market by allowing electric cars to run for more than 300 kilometres before needing to recharge.
By Tina Perinotto 13 February 2014 — Narelle Hooper, former Boss magazine editor, well-versed facilitator and women’s champion, wanted to know when Sam Mostyn was going to be PM. Yes, Mostyn was electric. She was speaking on a panel at the Green Building Council of Australia’s Leading Green Women forum in Sydney. We’d all seen […]
By Erik Moore, Arup
6 February 2014 — As reported on The Fifth Estate on 16 July last year, 8 Chifley Square is one of a new breed of buildings currently being introduced to the Sydney commercial market.
This new breed is providing the City of Sydney with ingenious and unorthodox designs that are leading the international field in sustainable building design in their technology and systems, along with the less tangible element of societal change.
By Willow Aliento
4 February 2014 — NuGreen Solutions is ready to shake up the energy efficiency marketplace with a no capital solar energy offering for the commercial market that removes entirely the up-front capital cost of installing solar photovoltaic systems and delivers immediate energy bill savings.
By Cameron Jewell
4 February 2014 — Rising energy costs are making sustainability a must for retirement villages in order to keep down running costs and attract increasingly energy aware clients.
3 February 2013 — From The Conversation: “Imagine this: Total Electric Living… where electricity does absolutely everything: heats, air conditions, cooks, preserves food, lights, entertains, encourages hobbies, makes it the easiest way ever for you and your family to be happier, healthier, to live fuller lives.”
20 January 2014 — University of New South Wales Scientia Professor Stuart Wenham has won the prestigious £300,000 ($A560,000) AF Harvey Engineering Research Prize from the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
By Jonathan Prendergast, Prendergast Projects
20 January 2014 — Embedded generation has the potential to reduce peak energy demand during heatwaves, helping to increase security and reduce the need for costly grid upgrades. Is it fair, then, that it’s being slugged with huge network charges?
16 January 2014 — CSIRO’s brainchild BuildingIQ, a cloud-based energy-efficiency platform, has enabled a landmark New York Building to save 440 tonnes of CO2 in twelve months.
14 October 2013 — The Omega Center for Sustainable Living, a solar and geothermal powered wastewater treatment plant, uses biomimicry to clean sewage and provide clean, drinkable water.
