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SELECTED
PROJECTS
The Learning Federation:
electronic learning objects (ELOs) 2005-06
Educational consultant and subject-matter expert with the Curriculum Corporation,
a national, federally funded organisation. Developed key concepts for ELOS,
all with a strong focus on sustainability, then worked with a team of multi-media
designers and technical writers to produce high quality, innovative on-line
content for use in schools throughout Australia.
Climate Change Impacts and
Adaptations 2005
Report and literature review for South East
Queensland Western Catchments Group as part of an Australian Greenhouse
Office project, ‘Practical adaptations to climate change in natural
resource management’.
Queensland Design Futures 2004
Director of a Team D/E/S
initiated project, with support from Arts Queensland, in which a
multi-disciplinary design team worked on future challenges for public
presentation, with Prof Ezio Manzini of Milan Polytechnic as invited mentor.
Keynote addresses on design
and sustainability 2002 & 2004
For the Brazilian Design Research & Development Congresses, Sao Paulo.
TreeLines 2002-3
Design and establishment of forest/timber education
centre and associated hardwood plantation, Ravensbourne, Queensland.
Development of educational programs on trees, timber and sustainability for
schools and professional courses. Support from Queensland Government
Department of State Development.
Sustainable Business
Incubator 2000-01
Strategic planning and brief development for the retrofit of a building to
serve as an incubator for sustainable business development. Client: Work
Ventures, a non-profit employment-creation organisation.
Olympic Boulevard
& Urban Landscape, Homebush Bay, 1996-7
ESD
consultant to architects Denton Corker Marshall for Detailed Design. Client:
Olympic Co-ordination Authority
Olympic Experience
Centre, Homebush
Bay (unbuilt), 1997
ESD consultant
and design team member. Client: BHP Steel.
Jubilee Avenue,
Grafton, 1996
Site and social
study leading to proposals for ESD retrofit options for a 36 house estate in Northern NSW. Client: Department of Urban
Affairs/Department of Housing.
ESCALS, 1995-97
Director of a multi-partner research and development project to create an
ecologically improved solar lighting and control system. Project was funded
through AusIndustry and the Federal government R&D taxation incentive
scheme.
Australian Technology
Park, Eveleigh, 1993-4
ESD consultant working with Project Managers NSW Public Works & Services
and Landscape Architects Denton Corker Marshall on infrastructure and
landscape program. Client: City West Development Corporation.
Renewable Energy and
Demand Management, 1994-6
Direction and
project management of the retrofit of former school building in Rozelle,
Sydney to become the premises of the EcoDesign Foundation. Retrofit included
a 4.5 kilowatt grid-connected photovoltaic system and demand management
measures such as insulation, low wattage heating and natural ventilation
enhancement. Supported by strategic investment from the Energy Research and
Development Corporation, NSW Department of Energy and others.
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