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Monash delivers biggest passive house building

The Fifth Estate
  • 29 May, 2019
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…
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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.
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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…
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2020 hindsight – the University of Melbourne’s emissions reduction journey since 2007

Willow Aliento
  • 19 April, 2019
“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,…
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Universities and Education Articles
  • 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
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