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The SPA’s commitment to achieving sustainability at every level of the organisation is reflected in the objectives of the State Property Authority Act 2006.
The SPA’s use of the NABERS tools reflects this commitment to making government property more sustainable and improving environmental outcomes throughout building engineering and design processes.…
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NABERS takes a look inside NABERS Indoor Environment (IE) is the world’s first indoor environment performance rating tool. It provides building managers, owners and occupants with an understanding of the indoor environment quality of their office buildings, allowing problems to be addressed and improvements to be made.
Colonial First State…
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Building sustainable communities Featured
Thursday, 12 May 2011 12:33 Written by SLR Global Environmental Solutions
The sustainability initiative in the built environment is supported by legislative drivers such as the Building Code of Australia’s Section J and financial drivers influenced by the emergence of a vibrant green fund investment industry. Sustainability has also brought to the fore the idea of whole of life cycle analysis…
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From voluntary to vital green building and the government sector Featured
Thursday, 12 May 2011 11:21 Written by Robin Mellon
According to the World Green Building Council, our built environment is responsible for 17 per cent of water usage, a quarter of the wood harvested, a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, up to 40 per cent of energy use and as much as half the world’s raw materials.
The…
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The ‘harmonisation’ of the nation’s disparate OHS laws has been on the federal workplace and productivity agenda since the Whitlam era.
Achieving some kind of standardisation across state, federal and territory lines has long been considered necessary to assure workers of consistent levels of safety and protection wherever they choose…
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OHS harmonisation – from the Act to the codes Featured
Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:58 Written by Staff Writers
No matter who you are, it will be almost impossible to escape responsibility for workplace safety when the national model Work Health and Safety Act is adopted by Australian states at the end of this year.
Norton Rose law firm partner Aaron Anderson will tell visitors to the Queensland Safety…
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Adelaide is the only planned city in the entire world encircled by a sea of Park Lands planned and set aside nearly two hundred years ago for the express purpose of providing a recreational resource for the citizens of the city.
And that remarkably, they have survived – and are…
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As Australia emerges from one of the most challenging economic times in history, parks and recreation departments are increasingly searching for playground solutions which are not only cost effective, but also offer something unique and highly sustainable to local communities.
A new development in the playground industry has swept the…
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