By Lilia Guan The Victorian Parliament has passed legislation to support large scale environmental retrofits of city buildings. The City of Melbourne Act has been amended to enable Council, in partnership with Australian financial institutions, to enter into voluntary arrangements with building owners to help them obtain finance to environmentally retrofit their buildings. […]
27 September, 2010
By Lilia Guan The City of Sydney has called for expressions of interest (EOI) to retrofit at least 44 of its building around Sydney, New South Wales central business district. City of Sydney manager of environmental strategy, Nik Midlam, said the buildings include: Town Hall House; Cook and Phillip Aquatic Centre; Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre; […]
21 September, 2010
By Lilia Guan About 30,000 Brisbane residents have signed up to an energy reduction program, only eight weeks into its launch date. Councillor Peter Matic, chairman of Environment, Parks and Sustainability at Brisbane City Council said the number far exceeded the expected take-up of the program. “To put this in perspective, the program was forecasted […]
14 September, 2010
By Angela Dorizas Councils in New South Wales and Victoria have achieved the best results from sustainability policies and practices, but there is still room for improvement in changing staff behaviour. Internal research by independent ‘environmental scorekeeper’ Planet Footprint found that of its 203 local government clients, councils in NSW and Victoria were the best performers […]
9 September, 2010
A proposed office fitout for the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency has been given the thumbs up by a parliamentary committee. The parliamentary standing committee on public works has recommended that the Government approve the proposed project to be located in the New Acton precinct, Canberra. The proposed $20.5 million project will provide […]
22 June, 2010
The Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) has called on State and Federal Governments to help local councils replace old street lighting with new energy-efficient technology. The
8 June, 2010
The AusZEH demonstration house. Image: CSIRO. By Angela Dorizas Australia’s first zero emission house, situated in the Victorian community of Laurimar, will soon be put to the test by its new occupants. Designed and built by the CSIRO, the demonstration house has an eight-star energy-efficiency rating and includes off-the-shelf building and renewable energy-generation technologies and new future-ready energy management […]
4 May, 2010
Housing sustainability is the issue that “literally go to the heart of how we live”, the state’s planning minister Paul Lucas said, putting forward a proposal to toughen sustainability measures in housing design. Mr Lucas said the kernel of the proposal, Improving Sustainable Housing in Queensland, was a requirement that new houses built from 2009 achieve […]
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