Why property owners need to be as serious about water as they are about energy
GPT’s sustainability innovations delivery manager, Dale O’Toole, says getting your head around water neutrality is not easy.
There’s a drought coming – are we ready?
With Australia on on the brink of another extended dry period, are we any better prepared that the last time?
NEWS FROM THE FRONT
On the quality of water that leaves our buildings and why we need to care
In 2019 when we ran a story that 90 towns in regional New South Wales were on the verge of evacuation because they were running out of water, it caused a sensation.
How an Agreement to Rate can close the energy performance gap
NABERS has introduced the Agreement to Rate process to help planners and policymakers close the gap between energy efficient building design and actual energy performance.
SPECIal report
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‘Urgent and unprecedented’ – NABERS rises to the challenge for critical decarbonisation
NABERS is credited with transforming the energy profile of Australia’s office market with its energy rating tool and improving sustainability in the built environment across a wide range of sectors over the past two decades
Life cycle carbon assessment is much easier than you might think
Cerclos chairman Alexander Bruce remembers the days of piecemeal calculations of embodied carbon in a building: counting the number of bricks, working out what it took to pour each square metre of concrete, and so on.…
SPINIFEX – YOUR VIEWS
Poll on electric homes – 11 barriers that home owners say is stopping them
Tim Forcey reveals the most common reasons members the My Efficient Electric Home Facebook group stopping members from getting off gas.
