Industry News
Crowne Plaza Melbourne installs sustainability indicator for improved energy efficiency
Crowne Plaza Melbourne has installed a mySmart enGauge screen to provide its employees and customers with visibility into real-time and historical energy-usage data from across the hotel.
[ + ]Council climate change alliance to transform Melbourne's northern suburbs
A local government alliance across Melbourne’s northern suburbs has launched a strategic blueprint - the first of its kind in Australia - for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2020.
[ + ]Wastewater company EWT marks strong growth with name change Down Under
AJM Environmental Services (AJM), specialist provider of wastewater treatment solutions in Australia, has formally changed its name to Eimco Water Technologies Pty Ltd (EWT).
[ + ]Formula Hydrogen speeding to a world record
The RMIT University team behind Australia’s first hydrogen racing car is celebrating another milestone, with the clean and green racer reaching a world record speed for its class in trials recently held in Germany.
[ + ]National environment company buys SA firm
The national environmental engineering contractor Enviropacific has acquired the Adelaide-based firm Remediate.
[ + ]Councils work with national waterwise label
Now with widespread federal and state government support and good recognition of water conservation issues at the consumer level, Australia’s independent national outdoor water-saving label, Smart Approved WaterMark, is seeking greater involvement from local government in water-saving programs.
[ + ]New landfill levies will boost recycling and ease landfill burden
Environment Victoria has welcomed moves by the Brumby government to increase landfill levies and called on all parties in the Parliament to support the new levy schedule.
[ + ]First scheme recognised under new green star assessment framework
The Carpet Institute of Australia’s Environmental Certification Scheme (ECS) is the first to be recognised under the Green Building Council of Australia’s (GBCA’s) Assessment Framework for Product Certification Schemes.
[ + ]$20,000 to encourage Australian university students’ innovation in broadband and environment
Alcatel-Lucent will again sponsor the Alcatel-Lucent Australia Broadband Challenge for the Sustainable Environment, alongside the Telecommunications Society of Australia.
[ + ]Water awards for Melbourne’s south-east
South East Water customers Inghams Enterprises, Amcor Australasia, Coca-Cola Amatil and Rossdale Golf Club were all finalists in the Prime Minister’s Water Wise Awards with Inghams announced as the inaugural winner of this prestigious water-saving award.
[ + ]Green energy system could power home and car
A wireless green energy system to supply the home and the car is being designed by University of Auckland engineering research fellow Duleepa Thrimawithana.
[ + ]The Rosenfeld named after California’s godfather of energy efficiency
Pioneering French physicists Marie and Pierre Curie have the curie, a unit of radioactivity, named after them. Renowned inventor Nikola Tesla is honoured with the tesla, which measures a magnetic field. And now, the Rosenfeld, proposed as a unit for electricity savings, will be named after the man seen by many people as the godfather of energy efficiency, Arthur Rosenfeld.
[ + ]SMEC awarded African river feasibility study
The Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC) has announced that it has been awarded a contract for the Eastern Nile Irrigation and Drainage Study.
[ + ]Future water supplies seriously challenged, say industry experts
For the first time in nearly 60 years, Australia’s capacity to secure high-quality water supplies for cities, towns and remote communities is being seriously challenged, a Black & Veatch media forum in Brisbane was told this week.
[ + ]Green Star - Communities to address sustainable urban planning challenges
The Australian government’s new State of Australian Cities 2010 report will support the property and construction sector’s drive to sustainability, says the nation’s leading green building group.
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