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Mirvac Shopping Centres now powered by 100% renewable electricity
Mirvac Shopping Centres now powered by 100% renewable electricity
Mirvac is forging ahead on its commitment to being net positive carbon by 2030, announcing that as of 1 January 2021, all 16 of its retail shopping centres will be...
Return and Earn machines deliver shopping centres phenomenal returns
Return and Earn machines deliver shopping centres phenomenal returns
Shopping Centre News speaks with Ryan Buzzell, President of TOMRA Collection Solutions, the technology provider for the Return and Earn NSW Container Deposit Scheme. Buzzell explains the environmental, community and...
Macquarie Centre sets sustainability goals with Zero Net Carbon by 2030
Macquarie Centre sets sustainability goals with Zero Net Carbon by 2030
Sustainability remains on the minds of many Australians and is also a priority for numerous local brands and retailers. Prior to COVID-19, Australians identified climate change as the most critical...
Ripley Town Centre declared one of Australia’s most sustainably Designed buildings
Ripley Town Centre declared one of Australia’s most sustainably Designed buildings
Ripley Town Centre in south-east Queensland’s western growth corridor has achieved a 5 Star Green Star Rating in the Design & As Built category from the Green Building Council of Australia...
Sekisui’s $1.5 billion masterplan vision for Ripley Town Centre
Sekisui’s $1.5 billion masterplan vision for Ripley Town Centre
Sekisui House Australia, is challenging traditional conventions of masterplanned communities by elevating the standard of economic, social and environmental sustainability to create the $1.5 billion masterplan vision for Ripley Town...
Stephen Choi, Frasers Property Australia
Stephen Choi, Frasers Property Australia
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great...
Carbon confusion
Carbon confusion
What’s a ‘Net Zero Carbon’ building? It may generate its own power, emit no carbon, but it might be constructed of materials full of carbon. On the other hand, it...
AMP Capital’s Quay Quarter Tower secures 6 Star Green Star design rating
AMP Capital’s Quay Quarter Tower secures 6 Star Green Star design rating
AMP Capital’s Quay Quarter Tower at Circular Quay has achieved a 6 Star Green Star – Office Design rating from the Green Building Council of Australia, for its innovative environmental...
Burwood Brickworks set to become the world’s most sustainable shopping centre
Burwood Brickworks set to become the world’s most sustainable shopping centre
Frasers Property Australia’s Burwood Brickworks shopping centre, is set to open Friday 6 December 2019. To mark the occasion, an official ribbon cutting ceremony will launch three days of family fun,...
Mirvac’s Cooleman Court awarded the ‘Champion of Champions’ award for sustainability
Mirvac’s Cooleman Court awarded the ‘Champion of Champions’ award for sustainability
Mirvac’s Cooleman Court in Canberra has been awarded the ‘Champion of Champions’ award at the ACT Government’s Actsmart business awards, recognising their Coolo Recycling Warrior’s program and Mirvac’s sustainability action...
Flying cars and sustainable design – the shopping centre of 2100
Flying cars and sustainable design – the shopping centre of 2100
In an age of flying cars, food sold in restaurants grown on site, micro-chips implanted in our eyes so we can pay with retina scans, will shopping centres even exist?...
Recycle, reuse, revisit
Recycle, reuse, revisit
We see countless examples of old buildings being given a new life as old industrial structures are transformed into modern venues. More often than not, ‘retail’ in new forms –...
Four simple steps to improve sustainability and  tenant comfort
Four simple steps to improve sustainability and tenant comfort
Analysing a shopping centre’s temperature, air quality, ventilation and overall shopper and tenant comfort, is a difficult exercise if the equipment that controls such factors is not digitised. The comfort...
Making sense of Passivhaus for retail
Making sense of Passivhaus for retail
There are massive programs underway in many Australian centres to minimise power usage and move towards sustainable structures. Passivhaus is a globally recognised building certification for producing buildings using minimum...
Lendlease property fund named world’s most sustainable for fifth time
Lendlease property fund named world’s most sustainable for fifth time
Lendlease’s Australian Prime Property Fund (APPF) Commercial has achieved the number one ranking from 964 global participants in the annual GRESB real estate assessment. It is the fifth time in...
Frasers Property Australia tops GRESB global rankings
Frasers Property Australia tops GRESB global rankings
Frasers Property Australia has been named the overall Global Sector Leader among developers in the GRESB Developer Assessment rankings. The company achieved a score of 96 out of 100, compared...
Vicinity leads retail property with 4 Star Green Star Performance rating 
Vicinity leads retail property with 4 Star Green Star Performance rating 
Vicinity Centres is now the highest-rated retail property group in Australia after it received a 4 Star Green Star Performance rating, representing best practice, from the Green Building Council of...
Stockland Birtinya’s retailers jump onboard for Plastic Free July
Stockland Birtinya’s retailers jump onboard for Plastic Free July
Stockland Birtinya is taking part in the global movement of Plastic Free July with a number of green initiatives to encourage the community to make the swap from single-use to...
Vicinity Centres to reach Net Zero carbon target by 2030
Vicinity Centres to reach Net Zero carbon target by 2030
Vicinity Centres (Vicinity) today announced a Net Zero carbon target for its 34 wholly-owned shopping centres, to be reached through a combination of its industry-leading solar program and energy efficiencies...
Scentre Group’s approach as a responsible, sustainable business
Scentre Group’s approach as a responsible, sustainable business
How a company thinks about its contribution to the economy, its people as well as the environment and social fabric of the communities it serves is increasingly becoming an expectation...
Andrew Cole, Lendlease
Andrew Cole, Lendlease
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great industry....
Stockland, the only Australian property company included on global climate A-List
Stockland, the only Australian property company included on global climate A-List
This week, Stockland’s sustainability credentials have been celebrated on the world stage, achieving recognition as the only Australian property company on the 2018 Climate A-List compiled by CDP (a not-for-profit...
Vicinity Centres’ Job Fair program
Vicinity Centres’ Job Fair program
We all strive for our centres to become the community focal point – to respond to community issues. Vicinity Centres has gone a lot further. The team has recognised a...
Kawana Shoppingworld shares the fruits of its recycling initiative
Kawana Shoppingworld shares the fruits of its recycling initiative
Customers at Mirvac’s Kawana Shoppingworld, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, can now enjoy the fruits of the centre’s award-winning closed loop recycling initiative. On offer in the centre’s kitchen are tasting...
Melissa Schultz, Vicinity Centres
Melissa Schultz, Vicinity Centres
The Shopping Centre industry is driven by people. It’s the skills and expertise of the people that manage, develop and evolve shopping centres for their communities that creates this great industry....
Menai Marketplace kicking sustainability goals
Menai Marketplace kicking sustainability goals
Lendlease’s Menai Marketplace has taken a stance on reducing waste, thanks to all the retailers and the local community the centre has reached some key sustainability milestones. It is a real demonstration...
Kiwi Property reduces waste by 310 tonnes annually
Kiwi Property reduces waste by 310 tonnes annually
New Zealand’s largest listed property company, Kiwi Property, has recycled over 10,000 discarded plastic bottles into five ‘human’ families known as ‘The Greens’ to front a waste reduction campaign. The Greens,...
Stockland Wetherill Park transformation
Stockland Wetherill Park transformation
The transformation of Stockland Wetherill Park received two wins at the 2018 PCA / Rider Levett Bucknall Innovation & Excellence awards, with the centre being named both Australia’s Best Shopping...
Burwood Brickworks: setting new benchmarks
Burwood Brickworks: setting new benchmarks
Frasers Property Australia has launched the commencement of a ground-breaking mixed-use development in the heart of Melbourne including a shopping centre with Australia’s first rooftop urban farm. Key Facts: Burwood...

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