Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital has been crowned Australia’s most sustainable building for 2012.
Australia's most sustainable building for 2012
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Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital has been crowned Australia’s most sustainable building for 2012.
The carbon price is here and so too are many reports of how business costs will increase as a direct result. ALAN DAVIS, an associate director and Sydney team leader of WSP Built Ecology, investigates tangible ways of reducing a building owner’s exposure to increasing energy costs driven by the carbon price and increasing electricity network charges.
With a property sector that is facing massive changes on the financial and physical fronts, Dr Heather MacDonald, head of the School of the Built Environment at the University of Technology Sydney, is aiming to prepare students for scenarios that are 10 to 15 years into the future.