Knight Frank and Cundall team up to deliver WA’s greenest commercial building
A seven storey Perth office block owned by RF CorVal, called Workzone East, has become the first commercial building in WA to officially achieve carbon neutral status.
New York’s Local Law 97: Is this the world’s most ambitious building emissions reduction plan?
New York City has launched one of the world’s strictest crackdowns on building emissions called Local Law 97. Here’s how it works.
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COP26 BLOG & media statements
COP26 Blog: Following is our rolling posts of media statements & comments relevant to the Glasgow climate talks
22 October 2021: From S&P Global Sustainable1, a new report: Asset Owner Perspectives…
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JOBS & BUSINESS NEWS
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Built – how builders can do so much to reduce embodied carbon
For some time now, Built has been swapping traditional emissions-intensive concrete with lower carbon varieties.
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Zero waste society: a not so radical way of tackling climate change
What if we told you that there was a way we could save 4.4 million tonnes of CO2 a year, the equivalent of taking one in four cars off the road? And that it was something we could all do, together, by rethinking our approach to food.
All the reasons gas needs to go and electrification is a must
Wires beat pipes hands down, according to energy expert Richard Keech, who says gas has a bigger emissions footprint than most of us realise.
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The bean counters have spoken on the cost/benefits of the new building code – time to go to the mattresses
If there is one thing certain following the quiet release on Monday of the second NCC 2022 RIS, it’s that this will be one of the more scrutinised documents to come out of government in recent times.
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