Improving the waste management of your building.

What are the waste streams in your building?  The obvious answers of ‘general waste’ and ‘recycling’ may jump to mind. For newer buildings, the list might be longer and include ‘flattened cardboard’ or ‘food waste’. And for many, the answer might be, “what’s a waste stream?” Effectively managing the waste produced by a multi-unit dwelling

How can you make your apartment more sustainable?

Parque Apartments on St Kilda Road – Community Garden Properties are increasingly being built with sustainability front of mind, solar panels and recycled water systems are used to make them more energy efficient. For properties without these built in features, owners still have plenty of options to achieve sustainability success. Parque Apartments on St Kilda

A sustainable OC community

Using OC Rules to encourage sustainability

Increasingly developers are building properties with sustainability in mind. Properties can be built with energy efficient features like solar panels and recycled water systems. Developers should also consider setting up their owners corporations to ensure sustainability remains a feature in the management and day to day operations.  One way this can be achieved is by

Embedded networks review - government response released

Embedded Networks to require 100% renewable energy.

Delivering on the Victorian Government’s election promise to ban new embedded networks. In 2018, the Victorian Government announced an election commitment to ban embedded networks in new residential apartment buildings, with exemptions for buildings that use renewable energy to deliver low-cost renewable energy to apartment buildings. This commitment was made in response to ongoing concerns

Sustainable Strata: An Evening with The Knight 2021

On 21 July 2021, The Knight held our annual information evening, An Evening with The Knight. The evening was set to be our return to in-person events after a year in lockdown. Unfortunately, Melbourne’s snap lockdown meant a last-minute pivot to a virtual format, but a pivot that proved to be a huge success. This