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20 February 2013 – Turning around the sustainability of the residential development industry will be complex and need to overcome deep structural impediments, not least of those deep opposition from industry lobby groups. But at least now there is a roadmap thanks to a comprehensive report from the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council.

By Tina Perinotto

14 December 2012 – The Cooperative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living was formally launched by federal minister Chris Evans at the University of NSW on Wednesday morning, and if they’d dropped a bomb on the six star Green Star Tyree Technologies Building where the uber-smart guests were assembled, Australia would have lost half its genetic IQ.

Volume build residential housing is pretty well where commercial sector was 10 or 15 years ago in terms of sustainability. Nowhere.

The big driver in residential development of the future will be the workforce of the future, Gen Y, and Gen Y wants to live centrally and to have great public transport, Leighton’s Mark Gray says.

20 February 2012 –This is a joint paper by Dr Shaila Divakaria and Stephen Driscoll presented to the Solar 2011 conference in December 2011 on the experience of building Landcom’s eco-living range of display homes. The three buildings were built by Clarendon Homes at The Ponds in Sydney’s north-west. The Benchmark Home was opened in June, 2011, the Greencycle Home in October 2011 and the Net Zero home opened along with the official launch of the whole village on 3 February.

By Tina Perinotto 10 February 2012 – In most display homes the signs say “No photographs”. But at the Landcom eco-living range of display homes built by Clarendon Homes at The Ponds in Sydney’s north-west, photographs are encouraged and rival builders are invited in to learn all they can. In this highly competitive industry that’s […]

10 November 2011 – Landcom has opened its second Eco-Living Display Home, Greencycle, one of three homes it is developing to promote sustainable building products and construction methods (see our earlier story on this)

25 March 2011 – Favourites: Brendan Gleeson, former director of the Urban Research Program at Griffith University, is one of the more challenging thinkers on Australia’s urban systems. On the eve of his departure for a three year secondment to the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, in December last year, he addressed an Arup New […]

5 July 2011 – Highlights of the week: The federal government promises the carbon package by the weekend; the Green Building Council’s new paper on the carbon price says, yes, we support it but here’s a long list of where it will hurt and how, and why the industry needs complementary measures to ease the […]

4 July 2011 – Landcom has teamed with Clarendon Homes to create a sustainable display home range at The Ponds in Sydney’s north-west. It’s a move that’s small to start with, but ultimately designed to shift the market.

10 June 2011 –Australia is leading the world in the accelerating use of carbon and in carbon emissions and is currently about 44 or 45 per cent above the 1990 level, while Europe is moving in the opposite direction.

23 June 2011 – It is time to overhaul the way we plan cities so that social equity and community wellbeing, rather than economic growth, is the driving force behind planning decisions. That was a key message from speakers at Landcom’s DiverseCity conference, held in Sydney recently. Keynote speaker, sociologist Eva Cox, told delegates the […]

Julieanne McIntyre ASBEC and PCA 22 December 2010 – Julieanne McIntyre is leaving her position as executive officer of the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council after being lured to the Property Council as senior manager, policy and regulatory affairs. The Sydney- based role is essentially to replace Paul Waterhouse after his 10 year stint in […]