This note was reviewed and approved for currency in September 2018. Sydney is not short of terraces and semis that have been completely reworked with a modernist treatment. They are filled with light, planned for contemporary living on small sites ...

This note was reviewed and approved by the Author in September 2018. Filter House design was developed as an entry to the Broome Sustainable Housing Competition, organised by the Western Australian Department of Housing and Works.  The competition ...

The 811 square metre site had been owned by the Mathews family since the early 1970’s, and was used as a car park by nearby businesses up until construction commenced in 2002. In 1998 several family members (including this author) formed a company, ...

The refurbishment of Trevor Pearcey House for the new Australian Ethical Investment Headquarters was designed by Collard Clarke Jackson Architects and in 2007 was the first building in the ACT and only the third in Australia at the time to receive a ...

40 Albert Road, a refurbished 1980s building, was the first building in Australia to achieve a 6-Star Green Star rating and 5 Star NABERS water rating. Since re-opening in 2006 numerous awards have been won. Fifteen months after the refurbishment, ...

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in September 2018.  Council House 2 (CH2) is a sustainable office building designed for the City of Melbourne. It meets the Council’s long-term need to house staff and breathes new life into an ...

The Australian Greenhouse Offices in Canberra aimed to set new environmental standards, by halving the energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of a standard building, achieving a better than 5-Star rating when assessed against the Australian ...

Regenerative design is a holistic framework supporting waste-free systems that utilise renewable resources and energy, seeking a balance between production and consumption while also restoring and revitalising (regenerating) its own sources of ...

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in August 2018. This note introduces readers to some of the current environmental analysis tools available within Building Information Modelling (BIM) software packages. It highlights some of the ...

This note was reviewed and retained for legacy in September 2018.  This note deals with the methods and tools for assessing the environmental performance of a building design in the early design phase of a building project. It describes building ...