Browsing: Built environment

Lend Lease has made new submissions to a Senate inquiry to bolster the case for legislation that would establish an energy efficiency trading scheme for commercial buildings, but the Property Council says there is a better way.

• ABARE: coal-fired power's share to halve in 20 years
  
• Green Building Council signs MOU with Federal and NSW governments
  
• NGERS lifts the lid on Centennial Coal emissions
  
• Australia funds Sumatran forest carbon project

• Xstrata denies Mount Isa mine breached lead levels
  
• Hamilton: 'Denialists launching cyber-bullying campaigns against scientists'
  
• Green Building Council steel credit set to shift focus from recycling

A company that this month won consent for a proposed 201-home project on condition that it dismantle and move houses if coastal erosion encroaches has potentially had its plans thrown into disarray by a court ruling that it unlawfully cleared the site and an order to remediate it.

A legal challenge by a textiles company in the Federal Court has raised questions over the Green Building Council's product certification regime for office furniture and fittings.

After years trying to minimise PVC use, the Green Building Council is now set to reward its 'best practice' deployment.

A Victorian tribunal has rejected a proposal to sub-divide and build on a coastal site because of its vulnerability to future sea level rise, saying 'a line in the sand' must be drawn.

Owners of commercial office buildings will be required from the second half of 2010 to provide energy efficiency ratings when they sell and lease office space, Environment Minister Peter Garrett announced today.

Climate Group chief Steve Howard talks to CE Daily about plans by leading businesses to develop over the next few months a climate project shortlist for premiers, his expectations of Copenhagen and his impressions of Australian businesses 'hungry for change'.

• Ministers seek input on energy use benchmarking
  
• EPHC releases wind farm development guidelines
  
• Sydney development signs to Clinton Climate Initiative