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CEFC study advocates demand management for electricity use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Queensland. The overseas experience cited in the paper builds the CEFC's case that demand management can reduce business and residential electricity bills through "lower customer energy consumption, via improving end use energy efficiency, lower wholesale ...

Fund managers assess retailers' risks in Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... from Bangladesh are particularly exposed because they have moved in later. "[Factories like Rana Plaza] are often in residential buildings that have been converted into factories," said Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, senior ESG research analyst at AMP Capital. ...

City of Sydney signs first environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... and upgrades of existing commercial properties, while this is a new development, and a development that is building residential units as well as commercial and retail space. "This particular deal is different in that you don't have a building with long-term ...

GRESB hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Commonwealth Property Office Fund, the GPT Group, considered retail for the purposes of the survey, Stockland for residential, Australian Prime Property Fund Industrial, managed by Lend Lease, as the industrial sector leader, and GFSGAM's Commonwealth ...

Low Carbon Australia finances Warrnambool lighting project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... larger AU$3 million Great South Coast Street Smart Lighting project. Warrnambool will install about 2200 lights in residential streets over the next couple of years as part of a broader initiative to replace more than 7,600 mercury street lights with ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $11m pilot energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... network's future needs. Most of the electricity sub-stations across the country were built a number of years ago, residential and businesses estates have of course grown and the infrastructure needs to be upgraded. To provide reliable power supply, network ...

DEXUS building awarded international prize for innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... nominated buildings built within the last two years, from 17 countries worldwide. The other finalists included the residential high-rise 'Pinnacle@Duxton' in Singapore, the towers of 'The Troika' in Kuala Lumpur, 'Eight Spruce Street' in New York and ...

Combet announces phase-out of solar credit mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... certificates for every one megawatt hour of electricity created from renewable energy sources. The plan was intended to help residential owners offset the cost of installing rooftops solar panel systems by generating certificates that could be purchased ...

Stockland publishes integrated 2012 annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... sale of AU$964m of non-core assets at an average price above book value. We used the proceeds to invest in retail, residential and retirement living projects that will provide significant future profits and to fund our security buyback." Stockland reviewed ...

Australian property continues to lead GRESB performers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Commonwealth Property Office Fund, the GPT Group, considered retail for the purposes of the survey, Stockland for residential, Australian Prime Property Fund Industrial, managed by Lend Lease, as the industrial sector leader, and GFSGAM's Commonwealth ...