We’re messing here with the future of six million people Dick Clarke, Envirotecture We need to consider biodiversity, water and energy in our development, but we’re also calling all brave planners to think about a future without private cars. Clean ones would help.
On why we need a manifesto for artists and loud architects in our cities The Fifth Estate Architects understand artists and how to find the niches among the hard edges of reality in the built environment in which they can insert human dreams and aspirations. So why aren’t they more loud and demanding? 1
NABERS’ new tool is looking at you tenants Willow Aliento | 23 October 2018 NABERS ratings have been phenomenally successful for offices: they’ve penetrated 80 per cent of the office space market and saved a mountain in energy costs for landlords. Now there’s a…
NABERS report: Boost for indoor, hospital, and shopping centre ratings Poppy Johnston | 3 October 2018 The uptake of the NABERS rating system by shopping centres, the indoor environment and hospitals have gone through the roof according to the national Australian rating system’s annual report.
Investa pushes for greener tenancies with new toolkit Poppy Johnston | 19 July 2018 A new toolkit that will teach tenants how to up their sustainability game has been released by Investa – the first of its kind according to the commercial real estate company.
Fitwel, new rating tool for healthy buildings comes with a difference Tina Perinotto | 12 July 2018 The landscape for building rating tools is about to change again thanks to a new tool that rates healthy buildings that has just landed in Australia.
ISCA’s call to do more good rather than less bad Willow Aliento | 12 July 2018 Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia chairman David Singleton wants infrastructure planners, designers and those who deliver the projects to aim higher in sustainability.
A level playing field at last for embodied carbon in goods and services Willow Aliento | 12 July 2018 At last, after years of interpretations and variations, the built environment looks like having an international standard on embodied carbon that create a level playing field for products and services.
GPT and Frasers among first to score NABERS’ new waste tool ratings Cameron Jewell | 4 July 2018 With waste currently top of mind across the country, building owners GPT and Frasers have wasted no time securing a rating under the new NABERS Waste tool, launched last month.
WELL gets an upgrade and becomes friendlier to existing buildings Willow Aliento | 3 July 2018 Existing buildings will be just as capable of achieving a WELL rating as new builds under the new WELL Building Standard v2 pilot.
100 per cent renewable by 2020: GBCA’s bold plan for green buildings Cameron Jewell | 2 July 2018 In less than two years any commercial, institutional or government building wanting to get the top 6 Star Green Star rating could be required to source 100 per cent of its energy from renewables.
How many cats it takes to heat a building, and other learnings from the Residential Energy Rating Conference Sid Thoo | 12 June 2018 It’s been several years since a conference has been organised that’s been aimed primarily at residential energy assessors.
Industry challenged to achieve net zero carbon buildings David Thorpe | 12 June 2018 The World Green Building Council has issued a challenge to the global building sector: eliminate carbon emissions from building use by 2030.
NABERS for Apartments is a “watershed moment” for strata sustainability Willow Aliento | 7 June 2018 NABERS for Apartment Buildings has gone live and is expected to be a major shakeup for owners corporations, investors, developers and builders.
NABERS for apartments could change the game – if it’s mandated Tina Perinotto | 10 May 2018 NABERS for apartments hasn’t officially launched yet, but already there is a flood of interest from owners corporations in Melbourne and Sydney.
Social licence to operate front and centre in ISCA’s rating tool update 5 April 2018 Six years after being launched, the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia’s (ISCA) rating tool is getting an update, with “social licence to operate” to become an important addition.
New partnership promises greener buildings for China 4 April 2018 The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) is teaming up with its Chinese counterpart to increase building sustainability in the world’s largest building construction market, and help it to move towards net zero.
