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Perpetual creating dashboard ESG reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... priorities for the next 12 months. That will then become a rolling project that is repeated at least once every 12 months." By building in the dashboard reports, investment analysts will be able to ask the questions on ESG issues that can be answered ...

Low Carbon Australia partners with Macquarie Equipment Finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia and Macquarie Equipment Finance have established an Energy Efficient Asset Financing Program to stimulate uptake of clean energy technologies in existing commercial buildings. The Energy Efficient Asset Financing Program will provide ...

Chartered Accountants: sustainability core business strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... professionals seeking to integrate sustainability into core business strategies. In Business briefing series: 20 issues on building a sustainable business, co-authored with KPMG, the institute presents steps, from integrating the consideration of externalities ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... condensor water pumps, lobby lighting, carpark lighting upgrades, solar domestic hot water systems and modifications to building control strategies. The project was given funding assistance from the New South Wales Department of Climate Change and Water ...

LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Wales based Local Government Super (LGS) has completed a retrofit of a Sydney commercial property that will reduce the building's emissions reduced by approximately 85% and allow the building to operate independently of the electricity grid within a ...

Commonwealth Bank reports lower customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... than last year. CBA's new Commonwealth Bank Place in Sydney has been awarded a six star Green Star rating for the base building office design and is targeting a six star Green Star rating for office as built. CBA also reported that since July 2010, its ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreement for Melbourne property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... City of Melbourne has signed its first-ever Environmental Upgrade Agreement (EUA) to fund a AU$400,000 retrofit of a building that will result in a reduction of approximately 170 tonnes of carbon emissions per year. The EUA was signed between the City ...

New standards for measuring GHG emissions in value chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... multi-stakeholder process making them both credible and user-friendly," said Pankaj Bhatia, Director, GHG Protocol, WRI. "Building on current best practice and extensive input from businesses, governments, and other partners, these standards will be ...

Regulatory barriers slowing cogeneration technology usage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... trigeneration - combined cooling, heat and power - offer "significant" environmental and economic benefits to the Australian building industry. But "a complex and burdensome connection process and regulatory barriers that inhibit them from deploying ...

GRI release reporting standards for construction and real estate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... Construction and Real Estate Sector Supplement (CRESS) covers issues that would arise during the entire lifecycle of a building, from design, to construction, occupation and operation and then to demolition. According to the GRI, the built environment ...