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Overviews

Bylaws
Capture and/or re-use water
Community
Energy
Gardens & Grounds
How are decisions made in strata?
Increase your renewable energy supply
Know what your energy costs
Know what your water costs
Know where your energy is used
Know where your water is used
Materials
Maximise your energy's efficiency
Other communities of support
Rebates & Incentives
Reduce your energy demand
Reduce your water demand
Strata 101
Transport Support
Waste
Water
Water use inside apartments
Water use on common property
What individuals can do
What the owners corporation can do
Who’s who in a strata scheme and what do they do?

Case Studies

Bike Room | Signature Apartments
Building Management System | Nexus
Communal Composting | Bondi apartment block
Compost Bin | Signature Apartments
Edible Garden | Maroubra complex
Energy | Hyde Park Towers
Facebook | Signature Apartments
Fluorescent Lighting Adaptor Kits | Citta
Green Roof | The Westbury
Junk Mail | Nexus
LED lighting & Solar Power | Dennington
LED Lighting | Epica
Lighting & Solar Power | The Mews
Lighting | Nexus
Overview | Highgate
Overview | Nexus
Overview | Spring St Towers
Pool Pumps | Parkridge Apartments
Power Factor Correction | Nexus
Rainwater Tank | The Horizon
Recycling | Altair
Recycling | The Park Apartments
Rooftop Food Garden | Chippendale Mews
Solar Hot Water for Personal Use | Chloe
Solar Hot Water | Nexus
Solar Power for Common Property & Personal Use | WallisView
Voltage Reduction Unit | Verge
Water Usage Reminders | Hyde Park Towers
Water-Saving Native Garden | Iora Apartments
WaterFix | Hyde Park Towers
WaterFix | Miramar Apartments

Feature Article

Apartment Owner Survey
How do we make our Residential Apartment Buildings more sustainable?
What does a "Green" building look like?

News and Information

ACT leaps ahead on strata laws for sustainability and NSW’s are under review
Actually, it is easy being green
Amendment to the NSW Energy Savings Scheme Rule
Apartment blocks the missing link in sustainability
Big retrofit opportunities for apartments, little action
Call to cut water use in flats by the meter
Car spaces on outer in more city buildings
Carbon conundrum for strata bodies
Change in wind as balconies air dirty laundry
City of Sydney - Smart Green Apartments program
Combet ends solar panel subsidies early
Commonwealth Bank - Lend Lease solar alliance aims to deliver solar energy to households
Developing Sustainable Solutions for Apartments workshop
Electricity price rises change
Gas pool and spa heater safety warning
Global warning
Green Champions Come to Green Square
Green roofs – there’s more value than you think
Have your say on NSW Strata and Community Laws
High-rise living – sustainable or not?
IPART Draft Report - feed-in tariff for NSW consumers
It's Commons sense to be green
It's easier being green
Judge announces new climate-friendly strata initiatives
Knockers embrace knocker's dream
Lighting case study: Local Government Super backs new improved T8
Local Government Amendment (Environmental Upgrade Agreements) Act 2010 (NSW)
Natural instincts
NSW Government revamps Solar Bonus Scheme
Owners corporations could now have a plan to save energy
Recycling in apartments
Residential Building Mandatory Disclosure Proposed Measure
Review for Solar Bonus Scheme
Row over Volt owner "stealing" electricity
Share and share a bike
Solar bonus applicants urged to consider all their options
Solar bonus scheme suspended after blow out
Solar Credits amendments
Strata Community Living (NSW)
Sustainable housing: Everything you ever needed to know to unravel the mess in the message
Sydney Green Apartments Forum 2011
The lighting is everything: a TFE Special Investigation
The resi challenge is to go green, stay green
Water price equity means big bill rise for apartments
Willoughby City Council - Common Area Assessments

Topics

Annual water conservation program
Average Water Usage Breakup across all Pilot Sites
Building Assets
Building Management
Building Management System
Central Cold Water Storage Tanks
Central Hot Water Systems
City of Sydney - Smart Green Apartments program
Cogeneration
Cooling Towers
Exhaust fans
Federal solar hot water rebate
Garage Doors
Green Roofs
Grounds & gardens – water consumption
Gymnasiums
Heating, Ventilation & Cooling (HVAC) systems
Lifts
Lighting
Pools & Spas
Power Factor Correction
Rainwater Tanks
Reducing the common factor
Saunas
Strata Community Living
Sydney Water WaterFix
Underground Car Parks
Use of common property for private purposes
Using water from rainwater tanks in pools and spas
Water pumps
WaterFix as an owners corporation initiative
Willoughby City Council - ClimateClever Apartments
Windows
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