Creating “healthy” buildings will improve occupants’ wellbeing and will change the face of the building and construction industry in Australia. With 90% of our time...
Archive for tag: Green Star
Infrastructure projects now targeting EPDs
Environmental Product Declarations – verified documents that convey transparent and comparable information about a product’s environmental impact – will now gain credits in rating tools for infrastructure...
The 5 factors driving sustainability in procurement
For most of our clients, more than 80% of their impact is in their supply chain. In the past, addressing this impact seemed difficult due to the complexity of...
Interview – Why Iplex decided to publish some of Australia’s first EPDs.
Iplex Pipelines was established in Australia in 1938 and over the past seven decades has grown to become a recognised leader in the supply of pipeline...
Insights – Get a leg up using whole building LCA
In this article, Edge’s building sustainability life cycle experts provide invaluable insights on how to get a leg up using whole building Life Cycle Assessment, especially...
Update – Uptake of Environmental Product Declarations in Australia
An Environmental Product Declaration, EPD®, is a registered document that provides relevant, verified and comparable information about the environmental impact of goods and services. An...
Sydney Skills up on Life Cycle Assessment
Edge Environment has just completed the second round of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) training delivered in partnership with the Green Building Council of Australia. ‘An...
Time to rethink our approach to low-carbon concrete
The modern built environment is unimaginable without the widespread use of cement-based materials. Today we use about 500 kg/per capita [1] [2], more than the...
Working with the Green Building Council of Australia
As part of our business goal to facilitate the shift towards a truly sustainable built environment in Australia, Edge Environment is currently working with the...
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