Solar Systems and the Australian Government will jointly fund commercialisation of Solar Systems’ baseload solar power technology, according to Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources Ian Macfarlane.

The Sustainable Built Environments 2007 conference will explore the latest theories on green buildings and sustainability, and how they are being put into practice.

Recent changes in the local steel industry have brought on a change in the education of steel can recycling, according to the Steel Can Recycling Council Inc (SCRC).

Western Australia will need up to 400,000 additional workers over the next decade to sustain its resources boom, according to a report from the WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI).

Investa Property Group and Stockland Corporation are working with the Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering at the University of Sydney to understand the barriers to achieving better energy performance for existing office buildings.

Waste tyre recycling company Reclaim Industries has signed a memorandum of understanding to enter into a joint venture agreement with Chinese investor Shou Zhuo.

Orica Watercare’s Remediation business has been awarded the prestigious Technology and Innovation Award for the Landguard technology at the annual Agribusiness Awards for Excellence.

A combination of biotechnologies has been used to design sensors that can detect the presence of pathogenic organisms or chemical contamination in water, food, industrial or point-of-care situations in less than six hours.

The New Zealand sustainable building competition, SHaC09 will tour the country next week with project coordinators updating tertiary organisations on the progress of the project.

Alcoa has received The Clean Air Achievement Award from the WA branch of the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand (CASANZ). The award was presented to the company for its Carbon capture technology that delivers greenhouse benefits by locking up CO₂ that is otherwise released into the atmosphere.

Curtin University of Technology has been awarded three Australian Research Council (ARC) grants including a 2nd QEII Fellowship awarded to Prof Kliti Grice to study past and future climate change and understand the mechanisms of global warming.

Architects, designers and building officials are among the attendees expected at a series of seminars to be presented by senior BRANZ scientists, Nigel Isaacs and Michael Camilleri, and Department of Building & Housing Building Standards Advisors, Nick Locke and Stephen Ward, in November and December.

CSR Ethanol Agservices has received the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) Value-Adding Award at the 2007 NAB Agribusiness Awards for Excellence Ceremony.

An innovation fund to encourage smart innovations that will lead to the uptake of solar water heating and heat pump water heating technologies has been launched by Jeanette Fitzsimmons, Government Spokesperson on Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EECA).

Businesses, community groups, research organisations and individuals with sustainable water use projects have until 9 November 2007 to submit applications for Round 5 Smart Water Fund funding.