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Monash delivers biggest passive house building

Melbourne’s Monash University has just delivered a major first – Australia’s largest passive house building and the first multi-residential passive house structure to be constructed from cross laminated timber. Gillies…

Monash University’s “living laboratory” for zero carbon, micro-grid innovation

The Fifth Estate
28 May, 2019

Melbourne’s Monash University is in a good position to become a “living laboratory” for sustainable, zero carbon, micro-grid innovation.

Swinburne University shows why hydronics makes for healthier buildings

Erwin Boermans
15 May, 2019

Swinburne University’s Advanced Manufacturing and Design Centre (AMDC) is unlike most educational buildings in Australia. It uses hydronics – water pipes embedded in the floors and walls – for heating…

“The Spot”, constructed for the University of Melbourne’s Business and Economics faculty, was reported to be the first 5 Star Green Star university building in Australia. Constructed in Pelham Street,…

Monash delivers biggest passive house building

Monash University’s “living laboratory” for zero carbon, micro-grid innovation

Swinburne University shows why hydronics makes for healthier buildings

2020 hindsight – the University of Melbourne’s emissions reduction journey since 2007

Pedagogy is in flux and so is the way universities are delivering education

Monash delivers biggest passive house building

Monash University’s “living laboratory” for zero carbon, micro-grid innovation

University labs – probably the toughest challenge of all

Sustainable buildings – 10-years later, are they living up to the promise?

The hidden benefit of both commissioning and managing facilities

Empowering schools to improve their own sustainability

Swinburne University shows why hydronics makes for healthier buildings

Government Architect NSW on designing good schools

Uni of South Australia – how the M2 fared