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FM JUNE | JULY 2011www.fmmagazine.com.au
NDY SUPPORTS GREEN STAR – PERFORMANCELeading consulting and engineering fi rm
Norman Disney and Young (NDY) has thrown
its support behind the Green Building Council
of Australia’s (GBCA’s) new Green Star –
Performance rating tool.
As reported in the last issue of Facility
Management, the GBCA is currently developing
a new Green Star rating tool, known as Green
Star – Performance, which will be used to
assess the operational performance of existing
buildings. A pilot version of the tool should be
ready for use within 18 months.
NDY is the fi rst sponsor of the tool.
According to the GBCA’s chief executive,
Romilly Madew, the ‘silver’ sponsor status
reinforces NDY’s international reputation as
a leader in sustainable building practices.
“NDY’s expertise and experience will be
essential in helping us to identify best practice
operational procedures and benchmarks for
existing buildings and develop a holistic rating
tool that incorporates all Green Star categories
into one rating,” Madew says.
NDY director and sustainability champion
James Redwood says: “Existing buildings
represent the single biggest opportunity
to reduce the environmental impact from
the built environment. The link between
commissioning, tuning, operations and
management has been somewhat missing
from industry discussion. This performance
tool is a real opportunity to bring those
infl uences together.”
The GBCA expects the Green Star –
Performance assessment methodology will
be particularly useful for facilities managers,
building owners, portfolio managers and
governments, as well as investors, building
occupants and consultants.
“We commend NDY for supporting the
Green Star - Performance project,” Madew
adds. “NDY is determined to ‘walk its talk’,
having been awarded Green Star – Interiors
v1.1 ratings for its offi ces in Melbourne and
Canberra, and has just recently achieved
a 6 Star Green Star – Education Design v1
certifi ed rating for the Australian Institute
of Management Stage 3 project in Perth.
The current Green Star tools have created a
common language for green building design
and construction and we envision Green
Star – Performance as the tool that will create
a common language for green building
operations.”
NDY was awarded 88 credit points for
every credit targeted on the project – well
above the 75 points required for a 6 Star
building – plus one innovation point for the
project’s acoustic design.
“NDY is proud of its market-leading
position in sustainable building, and we
are pleased to support the development of
this new rating tool, which will help us to
assess the performance of our Green Star-
designed buildings in operation, as well as
providing an opportunity for our clients that
do not have Green Star-designed buildings
to start their Green Star path,” Redwood
concludes.
The Green Star – Performance scoping
paper can be downloaded from the GBCA
website: www.gbca.org.au/performance
GBCA
www.gbca.org.au
NDY
www.ndy.com
CABLING CHALLENGENational engineering and sustainability
consultancy Umow Lai has taken on one of its
biggest professional challenges: providing the
fi bre optic cable infrastructure and range of
services for a development that is the size of a
mini suburb in Melbourne’s CBD.
Known as Upper West Side, the massive
development includes 2700 apartments being
built on the site of the former Lonsdale Street
power station that borders Spencer Street.
Andrew Oxley, who is heading Umow Lai’s
project team, stresses that the fi rm is up to the
task of providing the infrastructure for a project
of such an enormous size.
“We will be supplying fi bre optic cables
for each and every one of the 2700
apartments,” he says. “This is quite a feat, even
more so because it’s a fi rst for a project of this
size in Australia.”
Also noteworthy is the fact that the most
up-to-date ‘fi bre to the home’ (FttH) technology
has been designed for the occupiers of each and
every Upper West Side apartment.
Umow Lai
www.umowlai.com.au
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