By Melinda | Published:
March 5, 2012
Article By John Brodie ‘The Fifth Estate’, 8 February 2012 In the world of climate change and inefficient buildings everyone is clamouring for more efficient air conditioning systems and improved lighting to reduce energy loads and carbon. Air conditioning uses a large proportion of energy in buildings. The rule of thumb in trying to drop [...]
By Melinda | Published:
December 23, 2011
Vim Sustainability has been appointed the ESD consultants for the new Uniting Care Aged Care (UCA) facility at Orange, NSW. Vim Sustainability will be working closely with UCA and the architects Jackson Teece. Vim’s experience in Aged Care sustainability and especially with providers such as UCA gives us a clear understanding of how we can [...]
By Melinda | Published:
December 21, 2011
Back to the basics with Natural Ventilation The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) is committed to a whole new concept of sustainable schools. They designed and built a relocatable classroom to be completely sustainable with all natural materials, daylight and ventilation. It is the exemplar project for a whole new way of [...]
By Melinda | Published:
December 21, 2011
Brodie Sheds Some Insight on 6PR. Shade sails are an extraordinarily cheap way of providing an enormous amount of shade while still allowing some sun and shade to come through. Appropriately designed shade sails can be a great advantage if they are part of an integrated concept. We have to remember that we do not always live [...]
By Melinda | Published:
December 21, 2011
John Brodie talks on 6PR We live on the driest continent on the planet and we are really bad at managing water. We need to capture rain water and reduce the amount of water we waste. Some people have taken the initiative of installing rain water tanks in their houses which is a great idea [...]
By Melinda | Published:
December 21, 2011
What does the Carbon Tax really mean? And what are we doing to houses and office buildings going forward to make things a little more sustainable?
By Melinda | Published:
December 20, 2011
John Brodie talks Sustainability on Radio 6PR with Jason Jordan Where will we be in the future? How will we be running communities, designing buildings, houses, schools and offices? There is a shift emerging towards sustainable design driven by both designers and home owners in new spaces and existing spaces through retrofitting. The key to [...]
By Melinda | Published:
December 15, 2011
Vim Sustainability is proud to announce the opening of a new office in Hangzhou, China. Hangzhou is only one hour’s fast train ride from Shanghai and the office will service the whole region focused on Shanghai. Already Vim is considering the role of the sustainability consultants on a two billion dollar new development just out of [...]
By Melinda | Published:
December 13, 2011
Vim Sustainability has just been appointed as the ESD consultants on a unique new school development in the Northern beaches of Sydney. Committed to sustainability, the Northern Beaches Christian School is looking to embrace a full passive and low tech range of solutions in regards to the design and comfort requirements of their building. This [...]
By Melinda | Published:
December 9, 2011
John Brodie has just attended the ‘’invite only’’ series of cutting edge lectures over six days on sustainable urban climate and comfort at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Organised by Professor Edward Ng from the Architecture Faculty, this unique series of lectures was presented by the leaders in the fields of urban climatology, urban [...]