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25.01.2022 Keep your eye on this! Opening up for consultation in June and aiming to lift the standard of homes built in Australia. #sustainablehomes #resilienthomes

25.01.2022 Want to be part of the ASBN team? Applications for the Social Media and Engagement Specialist and Steering Committee Members close this Wednesday 26 February. Apply via the links below - we'd love to hear from you! Social Media and Engagement Specialist - http://ow.ly/hYXS50ytq2M Steering Committee Members ... http://ow.ly/AFXc50ynW8G Any questions, write to [email protected] #sustainablevolunteering #playyourpart #changechampions

25.01.2022 MARCH 5-9 1.5 Degrees Live! https://www.flinders.edu.au/e/culture/whats-on/degrees-live Hosted by Flinders University -------... With 100 guest readers over 5 days and 3 venues, 1.5 Degrees Live! is an unmissable free public event which features the reading, in full, of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)s Special Report on the impacts of Global Warming of 1.5C. You are invited to join us as we give voice and bear witness to this most significant and devastating expert scientific report on climate change and its impacts upon our planet. City of Adelaide Low Carbon Future SA

25.01.2022 'As we've built more and more deep green buildings, we've shown that not only are they better for the planet, but also are beautiful, they are inspiring to be in, are healthier and are better for the bottom line and are financially better performing. This is why 'Green Building' is in demand. I wish it was for altruistic reasons... but really it's because it is the smarter way to build economically. It is better for your employees, clients, even branding and recruitment, thin...gs that really effect the bottom line.' - Jason McLennan Nice conversation hosted by Fifth Wall with Jason McLennan, of McLennan Design and founder of the Living Future Institute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKVkJvWTYJE&feature Living Future Institute of Australia Living Future NZ Rkeiora Architects Declare AU Australian Engineers Declare Climate and Biodiversity Emergency Builders Declare Australia Planners Declare #buildingnetzero #zerocarbon #netzeroenergy #climateaction #regenerativedesign #sustainablefutures #sustainability #regenerativefutures #paystobegreen

24.01.2022 SUSTAINABLE HOUSE DAY 2020 Sunday 20th September There are 8 fantastic SA homes taking part in this years Sustainable House Day. While you cant visit them in person this year, the day will feature a rolling program of sessions on a huge range of topics. Below are the timeslots (SA times!) where some of the SA homes will be featured: Going All-Electric 1 | SUHO 10 Star House: 10:30-11:10am (ACST) ... Creating Carbon Neutral and Carbon Positive Housing | TS4 Living Piano House: 11:15 11:55am (ACST) Creating an Edible Oasis 1 | The Food Forest Home Extension: 1:30-2:10pm (ACST) Creating an Edible Oasis 2 | Footprint Garden Farm: 3:00-3:40pm (ACST) Reducing Waste During Construction | SUHO (Type B) 8.2 Star Home: 3:45-4:25pm (ACST) Passive House (Passiv Haus) Principles Blanchard House: 4:30-5:10pm (ACST) View the full program and register here: https://sustainablehouseday.com/program/ #SHD2020 #greenbuilding #ecohomes #sustainablehomes

24.01.2022 #fridayflix Folk of all Trades will be taking part in this year's online Sustainable House Day . Dani and Sam put together a great presentation on their beautiful strawbale home for the ASBN Sustainable House Day Showcase in 2018 - check it out and get warmed up for #shd2020 coming up this Sunday the 20th September! https://youtu.be/rt3kuH9dDVA... Register to take part in the online panel sessions rolling throughout Sustainable House Day here: https://sustainablehouseday.com/register/ Renew Bohdan Dorniak & Co Architects

23.01.2022 Habitat for Humanity SA are facilitating important work to assist home owners with recovery following the recent Cudlee Creek Fire. To support this work, all funds raised from the ASBN's upcoming event tour of TS4 Living's Corten House on Saturday 21st of March, including ticket sales and other donations will be passed on to this fantastic group. If you'd like to join ASBN for a tour of this impressive home performing at 8.4 Stars and also support a worthy cause, then get y...our tickets here: http://ow.ly/PYEC50yGc2K To find out more about the work that Habitat for Humanity SA does and to support them directly, check out their website here: https://www.habitat.org.au/what-we-do/australia/sa/ #sustainablebuilding #bushfirerecovery #theASBNexperience

22.01.2022 We're so sad to not be running our usual Sustainable House Day Showcase this year, but Sustainable House Day is still happening this Sunday 20th September! They have put together a PACKED program of free talks throughout the day - and you can see them without leaving your couch. Our chairman Ken Long will be hosting a session at 12:45pm Adelaide time "Downsizing your footprint, upgrading your lifestyle" so get registered now and we hope to see you there (virtually). #SHD2020 #sustainablehousing #ecoliving #goinggreen #ecozoom

22.01.2022 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MARCH 12 | ADELAIDE Design of Green Roofs & Walls https://events.humanitix.com.au/design-of-green-roofs-and-w Hosted by Water Sensitive SA... ---------- ASBN Affiliates garner a discounted ticket! In an increasingly dense urban form, green roofs and walls offer attractive green outdoor spaces that can deliver a cooler urban landscape and reduce stormwater run-off. This hands-on training will provide participants with knowledge and skills in the conceptual and detailed design of green roof and wall systems, including construction details and plant selection, via presentations, site visit and a group exercise.

21.01.2022 #FridayFlicks The 2019 edition of the National Construction Code came into effect this week. Need to brush up your knowledge on energy efficiency, condensation management and ventilation in buildings? Check out this video from June 2018 when we went deep into the subject with Thomas van Raamsdonk and Sean Maxwell from Pro Clima Australia. This video was supported by the Department for Energy and Mining, South Australia. https://vimeo.com/286308530

21.01.2022 We are sorry to inform you all that we have made the decision to postpone the "Experience Sustainability" event we had scheduled for this Saturday 21st March with TS4 Living due to the COVID-19 situation. We do not want to put any of you at risk or to compromise the safety of the family who had generously offered to open their home up to the public. At this stage, we are unsure when we will be able to resume public events and so we have refunded the full ticket fee to those ...who had booked for the event. We appreciate everyone's patience and understanding on this matter. Unfortunately this also means that we will not be able to pass the proceeds from this event along to Habitat for Humanity South Australia as we had intended. Once we can safely host events again, this will be high on our priority list! In the meantime, if you would like to support the work that this wonderful group do, then they have requested donations be made via their GiveNow Page: https://www.givenow.com.au/houseafamilyinneed The ASBN team will be busily working on some creative ways to keep the conversations about sustainable built environments going while we're all in seclusion. Watch this space!

18.01.2022 ASBN Newsletter - 03.03.2020 - https://mailchi.mp/5f15250be851/asbn-newsletter-2444613

16.01.2022 APRIL 29 | ONLINE | 7PM Spotlight: Bushfire Resilience https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/102945823730 SPEAKER PROFILE... Emilis Prelgauskas - Architect and Bushfire Resilience Expert During bushfires Emilis Prelgauskas steps up to provide logistics support to veterinarians in the South Australian Tier 2 animal triage agency SAVEM. He has deployed to 16 firegrounds in the last decade including post-fire pro bono assistance on Recovery Committees to fire impacted families. In the usual day-to-day Emilis is a 47 year veteran architect also refereed as a Commissioner on the Environment Resources and Development Court of South Australia. He has a portfolio of buildings designed and occupied in fire prone areas, with some destroyed and some surviving bushfire events. He brings his practical, built environment, legal and academic backgrounds to the evolving issues of buildings and bushfire. In October 2019 he presented at the Australian Buildings Bushfire Conference in Leura, NSW.

15.01.2022 The ASBN's mission has always been to advocate and take action towards ensuring our built environments are sustainable and livable. We believe the Safe Climate Declaration, initiated at the National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne last month, is a vital step in shifting sustainable practises from the niche corner that we operate in, into standard practise. This year we will be focusing more on how we can all take action - be that big or small. Join us in signing this very important declaration. More information on the Safe Climate Declaration is here: https://www.climateemergencysummit.org/declaration/

15.01.2022 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT JUNE 25 | ONLINE Industry Friends of Low Carbon Living Forum: Embracing the Circular Economy https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/industry-friends-of-low-car ----------... Webinar focused on the theme 'Embracing the Circular Economy', hosted by the UniSA Research Node for Low Carbon Living. Speakers: Peter Wadewitz OAM, Managing Director, Peats Soil Veena Sahajwalla, CRC Low Carbon Living, Professor, SMaRT, UNSW Vaughan Levitzke PSM, Chief Executive, Green Industries SA Yan Zhuge, Professor, UniSA STEM Scott Morton, Director, BioBag World Australia

15.01.2022 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUGUST 20 | ONLINE Industry Friends of Low Carbon Living Forum: Low Carbon Housing https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/industry-friends-of-low-car ----------... Webinar focused on the theme 'Low Carbon Housing', hosted by the UniSA Research Node for Low Carbon Living. Speakers: / Josh Byrne, Director, JBA, Research Fellow Curtin University & CRC LCL / Jessica Wood, Communications & Community, Nightingale Housing / Geraldine Petit, Studio Lead/Design Construct Specialist, SUHO / Brett Aylen, Director, Brett Aylen Architecture

15.01.2022 WEBINAR NOV 19 | 7:00 - 8:30 pm AEDT Via Renew - Leading in Sustainability Understanding NatHERS: an in-depth look at the Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme. https://events.humanitix.com/nathers-webinar... ------------ Join experts from the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to learn more about the Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS). Topics covered will include: what the stars mean; CSIRO’s role in NatHERS; practical information about how to achieve a high NatHERS energy rating; and busting common misconceptions about star ratings. This webinar will also include time for Q&A discussion with presenters. See more

15.01.2022 ASBN Newsletter - 30.04.2020 - https://mailchi.mp/dcd4cd80c1ad/asbn-newsletter-2462606

14.01.2022 Join us at 7pm tomorrow night as we premiere this talk from Emilis Prelgauskas highlighting the elements that create a bushfire resilient community. It features particular notes for architects and other home building professionals on their role before, during and after a bushfire event following his experience in 16 fire grounds. This premiere will be viewable on Facebook or Youtube. Register or find out more here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/102945823730

14.01.2022 Paul Hendy from TS4 Living will be showing us through his home as part of our Experience Sustainability event on Saturday 21 March 2020. To whet your appetite, check out his presentation from our 2017 Sustainable House Day event. http://ow.ly/r2Wt50yBj95 For tickets to this event: http://ow.ly/Aglm50yBj94 All proceeds from this event will be donated to Habitat for Humanity South Australia to assist with their recovery work after the South Australian bushfires.... #FridayFlix

14.01.2022 Building our hope for a sustainable future at We can still fix this with Damon Gameua, Will Steffen, Michelle Lim, Bernie Hobbs and Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor at WOMADelaide. Its possible, time is critically short, lets do this! #sustainablefutures #hope #sustainableleaders

13.01.2022 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MARCH 16-18 | ADELAIDE WUFI Training in Adelaide https://proclimaaustralia.arlo.co/w/upcoming/ Delivered by Pro Clima Australia... ----------- The 3 training modules delivered by Pro Clima will cover off on basics, intermediate and advanced levels for the use of WUFI. WUFI is a C-Program for calculating the coupled heat and moisture transfer in building components. WUFI achieves realistic calculations of the transient hygrothermal behaviour of multi-layer building components exposed to natural climate conditions. WUFI is a software that can be used as a verification method for the new clause n the NCC, Clause F6 (Condensation).

12.01.2022 WEBINAR NOV 16 | 12pm AEDT Hosted by Parlour: women, equity, architecture Lab 02: Architecture on Indigenous Lands https://archiparlour.org/lab-02-architecture-on-indigenous/... ------------ Please join Parlour, UQ Architecture and SAHANZ for Parlour LAB 02: Architecture on Indigenous Lands: Thinking Indigeneity, tangata whenua whare whenua. Carroll Go-Sam and Deidre Brown will discuss their research in conversation with Kali Marnane and Macarena de la Vega de León. They will then join Macarena and Kali in a discussion about their work and the importance of the connection to land. How does Indigeneity shape their research practice? What unexpected things have came up? Why is history, and the history of Indigenous environments, relevant for practitioners? #regenerativedesign #indigenousarchtiecture #connectingtocountry #placebaseddesign #regeneration #livingfuture

11.01.2022 EVENT NOV 16 | 7.30-8.30pm Hosted by Renew SA Chapter Resilient Electricity Grids https://events.humanitix.com/resilient-electricity-grids... -------------- Dr Bryn Williams, Future Energy Strategy Manager of SA Power Networks will describe their blueprint for transforming the network and services to meet future needs. He’ll explain what makes a reliable grid and what changes will be made to maintain quality and continuity with optimum renewable energy content. New capabilities, systems and processes will support an energy system dominated by distributed generation and integrate emerging demands such as electric vehicles. #renewableenergy #sustainablefutures #greengrid #sustainability

11.01.2022 ASBN SPOTLIGHT: BUSHFIRE RESILIENCE VIDEO REPLAY | QUESTIONS CLOSING TONIGHT Did you miss the premiere of our Bushfire Resilience Spotlight on Wednesday night with Emilis Prelgauskas? Don't worry you can still view it on Facebook or Youtube (links below). We are also still accepting questions for Emilis to respond to in a follow up video, but only until TONIGHT! Post them in the comments section under the video or email them to us on [email protected] ... So settle down with a cup of tea and learn something about how we can make our communities and buildings more resilient to bushfire events! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdelaideSustainableBuildingNetwork/videos/688921935273607/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxNJz4w8Pyk&feature=youtu.be

10.01.2022 ASBN Event Date Correction - Oops! - https://mailchi.mp/9addcaed9170/asbn-newsletter-2447009

10.01.2022 Four more fantastic locations for those in the north-west to get a copy of the Green Book, our free guide to organisations providing solutions for sustainable built environments in SA! Folklore Cafe, True Hemp Culture, The Banksia Tree Cafe and Sarah's Sister's Sustainable Cafe. Get around them and show your support for these great businesses creating a better (and delicious) SA for all! #greenbookgreenfood #sustainablebuilding #theasbnexperience #sustainableliving

10.01.2022 WEBINAR NOV 11 | 5.000pm AEDT Hosted by Builders Declare Australia Carbon Neutrality for Building & Design sectors https://events.humanitix.com/carbon-neutrality-for-building... Great session to follow up on our recent 'WE DECLARE!... Now What' event ------------ This webinar will explain what a ‘Carbon Neutral’ business means, why it's important and how it can be achieved. We’ll also include some indicative costs and timelines so you know what to expect should you choose to become a carbon neutral company. Hear from someone who’s just completing the journey and is happy to ask and answer those tricky questions. Speaker bio: Danielle King, a highly qualified and respected energy efficiency and sustainability assessor, consultant and educator in the field, focused on the built environment. Danielle sits on several advisory boards and works with a variety of private and government clients to guide sustainable outcomes for both residential and commercial sectors. She is also a carbon accountant and is in the final stages of having her company Green Moves certified as Climate Active Carbon Neutral Small Organisation, and is happy to share her learnings. #climateaction #declareAU #sustainablebuilders #sustainabledesigners

08.01.2022 Four more great locations to grab a Green Book - your free guide to local organisations providing solutions for sustainable built environments! Show your support for these awesome locals supporting ASBN to spread the sustainable word! @auraobjects @coffeejourneyadelaide @thesimple.market @adelfarmmarket

07.01.2022 Another key industry group taking a stand and declaring a Climate Emergency. If you're a builder, you can sign up to the declaration through the article below. It takes EVERYONE involved in creating our built environment to make a difference!

05.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who joined us at our event last night! It was fantastic to have our community come together in person again and also have folks tune in digitally. Apologies to our attendees for video issues in our online stream, but thank you for powering through with us! A huge amount of gratitude and appreciation to our panel members, for bringing so a knowledgeable experience and insights into how business shaping the built environment take responsibility for their ...organisational carbon footprint and also the ecological impact of the environments they create. // Cary Duffield - Official: Troppo Architects // Cathy Chesson - Mott MacDonald // Michael McKeown - Jensen PLUS // Jackson Digney - Enduro Builders // Amanda Balmer - WAX Design Shout out to the ASBN team for being an incredible group bringing this event together, Miriam Yip at Environmental & Science Media for getting us streaming and recording the session and Daniels Langeburg at Mâché for being a generous venue host. For a quick recap or if you have any good points or links to add to our digital dialogue, please do so here - http://ow.ly/kkhS50Cc3Pt See you at the next session SA!

05.01.2022 Last Wednesday we premiered the video for our online Spotlight on Bushfire Resilience. Did you miss it? You can still view it here: https://www.facebook.com/219452251408780/videos/688921935273607/ //The Q&A Session... This video answers the questions we collected from our community following on from the Spotlight. Emilis answers questions on landscape and water tank considerations, the role of architects after a bushfire event, water pumps and more. Emilis mentions a range of resources that are available for further expert information. You can find links to these below, as well as some other useful resources. //Resources mentioned by Emilis: Email for Emilis: [email protected] Red Cross Psychological First Aid Guide: https://www.redcross.org.au//Psychological-First-Aid-An-Au Your Home 4th Edition: https://www.hort360.com.au//Your%20home%20technical%20manu Ramsay, C. and Rudolph, L., 2003. Landscape and building design for bushfire areas. CSIRO publishing. NSW Rural Fire Service, Planning for Bushfire Protection, (Landscaping considerations from page 70): https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au//Complete-Planning-for-Bush-Fir Di DeLaine, Rural Solutions SA on behalf of the Eyre Peninsula Natural Resources Management Board: https://www.yumpu.com//landscaping-for-fire-protection-eyr Government of South Australia, Ministers Specification SA 78 Additional requirements in designated bushfire prone areas: https://www.sa.gov.au//Ministers_specifications_additional South Australian Fire Authorities, BUILT ENVIRONMENT SECTION POLICY NO. 14: Above Ground Water Storage Tanks for Fire Fighting Purposes, https://safecom-files.s3.amazonaws.com//fire_services_poli CFS: https://www.cfs.sa.gov.au//building_in_bushfireprone_areas //Other useful links: Government of South Australia, Building or developing in bushfire prone areas, https://www.sa.gov.au//building-or-developing-in-bushfire- Country Fire Association Victoria, Landscaping for Bushfire: Garden Design and Plant Selection, (check local regulations about declared weeds before use) https://www.cfa.vic.gov.au//7/landscaping_for_bushfire.pdf

05.01.2022 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT JUNE 17- JULY 15 | ONLINE REGENERATE: Shaping Urban and Regional Futures https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/urban-mind-studio-284975028 Hosted by Urban Mind Studio... ---------- The REGENERATE series, hosted by Trish Hansen of Urban Mind Studio, brings together Local Government Elected Members, Executives and Senior Municipal Leaders with Subject Matter Expert Practitioners from across the world, in conversation about the latest thinking and practices emerging in a range of fields: resilience, leading in uncertainty, regeneration, economic development, public innovation and impact, culture and place. This interactive online thought leadership workshop series will enable participants to harness the disruption of COVID19, to better lead through this period of unprecedented uncertainty, to emerge stronger. It will enable locally adapted, well informed and wise responses that acknowledge complexity, allow for emergence, and build prosperity. The REGENERATE series comprises 6 x 1 hour sessions each comprising a 20-minute briefing presentation and 30-minute Q&A with the leading expert Practitioner.

05.01.2022 ASBN Newsletter - 17.04.2020 - https://mailchi.mp/2c3b745c38b3/asbn-newsletter-2459449

04.01.2022 We know there will be significant stimulus put into the construction industry as we continue to navigate this COVID-19 world. It is critical that this stimulus does not just fund a business as usual approach to our built environment. We CAN do better and we MUST. Beyond Zero Emissions presents here a counter-narrative to the gas fired recovery that is being floated by the government.

03.01.2022 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAY 26 - JUNE 9 | ONLINE Lunch with Living Building Leaders - Burwood Brickworks https://living-future.org.au//lunch-living-building-leade/ Hosted by Living Future Institute of Australia... ---------- Join The Living Future Institute of Australia on Zoom every Tuesday 12-1pm to meet local pioneers in Living Buildings. Go on exclusive virtual site tours and chat with project creators and contributors about what it takes to push the industry limits. In the sessions they will dive into the processes and stories from a variety of project contributors part conversation, part ask-me-anything, and best of all you get to choose who to spend time with!

02.01.2022 ASBN ZOOM EVENT SustainabiliTEA with ASBN Session #2 - What Do You Mean Zero? WED NOV 25 | 10.00-11.00AM FREE https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sustainabilitea-with-asbn-s... -------- When a building is described as #ZeroCarbon / #NetZero / #CarbonNeutral / #ZeroEmbodiedEnergy what does it even mean?! #terminologyoverload Please join us via Zoom for some tea (or beverage of your choice) and a chat to clarify what is meant by green building terms normally used interchangeably; Zero Carbon / Net Zero / Carbon Neutral / Zero Embodied Energy. Ken Long, Chairperson of the ASBN and ESD Consultant with Dsquared Consulting, will kick off our conversation by outlining what these terms refer to in the green building space and the various building certifications which align with them. Our hosts will then open up the conversation for questions and comments from the community. This session will be hosted by ASBN committee members Yaara Plaves, Associate and Head of the National Sustainability Forum at Hames Sharley, and Tyler Lawrence, Engineer at Lucid Consulting Australia. We look forward to connecting with you virtually with a soothing cuppa! #theASBNexperience #sustainabledesign #regenerativedesign https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sustainabilitea-with-asbn-s

02.01.2022 Following a horror summer of bushfires in Australia we are realising that the way we have previously approached building in bushfire prone areas does not adequately address the future threats we face. Join us at 7pm on Wednesday 29th April for the video premiere as Emilis Prelgauskas takes us through a whole range of measures which can help to increase the resilience of our community in bushfire situations. Please note that the presentation will be a pre-recorded video in wh...ich questions will be gathered for a separate Q&A session with Emilis at a later time. // Presentation This talk will reveal the complicated nature of the question on how to create the most bushfire resilient properties both in areas that have historically been at risk, as well as areas we have not previously considered. It will advocate for a whole of community approach to developing resilience, utilising the concept of fire fitness to describe measures well beyond clearing a few trees and attempting to utilise materials that are fire-rated in buildings. Emilis will highlight specific approaches, with several case studies, to be taken by architects and other professionals, as well as home-owners to improve their chances of resilience in bushfire events. Whilst there is no such thing as a bushfire proof home in many areas, there are vast improvements that can be made in how we approach our preparations for the inevitable increasing intensity of these fires. // Speaker During bushfires Emilis Prelgauskas steps up to provide logistics support to veterinarians in the South Australian Tier 2 animal triage agency SAVEM. He has deployed to 16 firegrounds in the last decade including post-fire pro bono assistance on Recovery Committees to fire impacted families. In the usual day-to-day Emilis is a 47 year veteran architect also refereed as a Commissioner on the Environment Resources and Development Court of South Australia. He has a portfolio of buildings designed and occupied in fire prone areas, with some destroyed and some surviving bushfire events. He brings his practical, built environment, legal and academic backgrounds to the evolving issues of buildings and bushfire. In October 2019 he presented at the Australian Buildings Bushfire Conference in Leura, NSW. If you have questions during or following this talk, please post them in the comments section. The video presented will be a pre-recorded presentation. We will collate these and post a follow up to answer as many of these as we can at a later time. If you can't make this timeslot, the video will be available for viewing after the event.

02.01.2022 ONLINE EVENT MAY 22 | 10.00 - 10.45am Planning Reforms Update w/ Michael Lennon https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/webinar-planning-refroms-up? Hosted by Australian Institute of Urban Studies SA... --------- South Australia is seeking a contemporary planning system that enables the efficient and effective delivery of well designed and sustainable urban and regional environments. The State Planning Reforms are in an important phase. Primary consultation on Phase 2 and Phase 3 of the Planning and Design Code has finished. Phase 2 of the Planning and Design Code (regional areas) is anticipated to go live in the coming months. The AIUS SA is pleased to invite Michael Lennon, Chairperson of the SA State Planning Commission to provide an update on the State Planning Reforms and what lies ahead. The conversation will be hosted by AIUS SA President Benjamin Cooper

01.01.2022 Join us at 7pm on Wednesday 29th April for this free video premiere as Emilis Prelgauskas takes us through a whole range of measures which can help to increase the resilience of our community in bushfire situations. This talk will reveal the complicated nature of the question on how to create the most bushfire resilient properties both in areas that have historically been at risk, as well as areas we have not previously considered. It will advocate for a whole of community a...pproach to developing resilience, highlighting specific approaches and case studies. Whilst there is no such thing as a bushfire proof home in many areas, there are vast improvements that can be made in how we approach our preparations for the inevitable increasing frequency and intensity of bushfires. Book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/102945823730

01.01.2022 Want to help ignite positive action towards sustainable built environments in South Australia?? We are currently looking for expressions of interest to help drive the direction and execute the events and projects of the ASBN as a member of our steering committee. Through their involvement, committee members will develop organisational skills and expand their networks in the South Australian building industry. We are a fun but professional team and would love to hear from you if you'd like to come join us! Apply at: http://ow.ly/AFXc50ynW8G Any questions, write to [email protected]

01.01.2022 MOVIE SCREENING MARCH 10 | GOODWOOD 2040 Headspace Fundraiser Screening Hosted by Adrian Hurley https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/headspace-fundraiser-screen... In 2040, Damon shows us a brighter future in an age of environmental despair and takes a look at what the world could look like in 2040 if we start implementing some of the regenerative practises and technologies available to us right now. It's a message of hope. Funds raised on the night will go towards the excellent work that Headspace is doing to combat mental illness in the younger generation. For more details head to the link above!