Get on your bike!

I’m a bike riding nerd. I love working out new and different ways to get around on my bike, I love seeing full visitor bike parking outside the supermarket and I love looking at sustainability projects to see how they’ve provided great facilities for...

Bicycle parking in apartments

I’m a member of the Yarra Active Transport Advisory Committee and we’ve recently provided advice on the draft Transport Strategy.  Then my mother had her bike stolen from the “secure” bicycle parking at her apartment building and my son...
Site visit!

Site visit!

This morning I went to a site visit at the new Country Road store in Chadstone.  I’m working on a volume certification process and the store is the first one targeting a 5 star Green Star Interiors. When I set up the meeting, I worked out that I could get there...
Your windows are too big

Your windows are too big

Last week I got one of those phone calls…”How quickly can you do a JV3 model?” Yep, no one had checked that the windows complied with the NCC and now they needed a building permit – today! I was pretty blunt and told them that I needed 2 weeks,...

Construction waste – what to do?

We’ve all heard about the “recycling crisis” but I haven’t heard much more about how it affects the projects we’re working on. So this article in The Age today is a bit of a prompt to find out more. “Since C & D Recycling opened...