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Last updated: Sept 2008

Visited the World Sustainable Building Conference SB08 (22-25 Sept) that this year has been held in the Melbourne Convention Centre in the heart of Melbourne CBD. Balmy 20 degrees, great exhibitors and very thought provoking scientific papers were presented.

Here, I downloaded all the abstracts for you. I particularly liked two streams:
Enhanced Sustainability Assessment Methods - Buildings & Components;
and
New Products, Technologies & Systems - Construction Products

The 20 Criteria to Building For Life added.

Vietnam Shopping Mall - Planning approval stage 1

Vietnam Shopping Mall - Planning approval stage 1

The Reconfigurable Shopping Plaza got the green light for stage 1 from local planning authorities!

That is, just as well before the ecomic downturn in VN may bottom out.

Enourmous Thanks for the great feed back!

With the many feedback we learnt that the information presented on our pages has been very useful and you find it accessible.

Thank you, also, for letting us know about your exciting projects.
Many many interesting and thought provoking ideas - small and large.

Preliminary feasibility, profit projection analysis and design for a Scalable Reconfigurable Shopping Plaza, Near HCMC Vietnam concluded, preliminary design development starts. Project to include retail, office and apartment components all in a scalable arrangement.

Associate ties with a company establishment to leverage our growing modelling knowledge is going ahead apace.

Mixed retail-residential in Richmond is in town planning evaluation, initial responses from Yarra Council are encouraging.

FLL - our maiden lighting information consumer guide with lots of home lighting tips passes the magic 10,000 page impression per month and starts its climb on the LED light guide 'Google ladder'.

Glen Eira terraces with a 'twist' an upcoming real estate associate only recently described as "suprisingly smart!" is in pre Town Planning stage awaiting approval.

Vietnam Shopping Mall Site - areal Placemark is invited consultant to develop sustainability application.
Feasibility design commences for a shopping facility near Saigon, Vietnam.
Town planning is completed for a beach shack on Golden Beach.

Consulting starts on a shopping facility in Vietnam.

Brainstorming is aimed at a unique attractive feature that would win over shoppers with little, but slowly growing disposable income. This region in VN is growing at a rapid rate.

Schematic design starts on mixed retail/residential extension in Richmond.

Multi-townhouse apartments in Mount Waverley finishing construction. Owner just mentioned I'd need to organize photos, before it is too late - they will sell pretty fast. - And she likes very much how it is coming up. Good news indeed.

(Simple can be radical indeed ;-)
Effective towhnouse building strategies.

Placemark has been nominated for the State Award
with the Highett Project.
We are shortlisted for Best Building Design State Award in the multi-residential award category.

Boards for State Award 2005 - Hampton project Interior

Boards for State Award 2005 - Hampton project Exterior

3D modelling for the CRC for Construction Innovation

Construction Innovation project (CRC for CI)

We have been selected as the Building Information Model (BIM) developer. Previously we were shortlisted to provide 3D models linking to a buiding database for the CRC providing services for the Symphony building 27,000m2 (2900 SQ approx. in Markstaete in Brainpark III., Rotterdam) in the Netherlands - under construction.

dual occupancy - melaleuca drive glen waverley

Construction completed on dual occupancy in Glen Waverley. Took photos when the front was successfully sold (for good price too!) after being about a week on the market.

unit residences for irregular land - mt waverley

Multi dwelling (townhouses) in Glen Waverley (under construction.)

We managed to mold these unit residences to the site that is irregular and sloping heavily.

tally-ho office building on burwood highway - entry detail

tally-ho office building on burwood highway - entry detail

Together with other selected building designers we produced our Dubai bid for a joint application with the generous help from AusIndustry and the BDAV. We feature here notable projects with our past participation. This, however, had to be shelved for some better times, because we had to attend other local projects that came up. Was sweet nevertheless.

Tally Ho Business Park >>

Bayside Corporate
Center >>

Residential extension in Hampton, complete with outdoor entertainment area
and detached granny flat (project.)

Multi dwelling (townhouses) in Mt Waverley (tendering.)

residence in back yard - mulgrave - 3D model New residence in Mulgrave. Working drawings and detailed design including interior design. This was one of the very few projects we took to VCAT because council had too many changes during the project's life. (We found great and very convincing use for our 3D modelling "mastery" on this one.)

Country retreat in Canada. Collaboration with local building designer (design development stage).
Energy modelling of commercial office buildings in NSW and Queensland.
Multi townhouse project in Banyule (under advertising).
Multi unit project in Mulgrave - just won at the VCAT tribunal!
Multi townhouses in Mt Waverley (working drawings).
Multi townhouses in Glen Waverley (planning permit stage).

Past completed projects:

Multi townhouses in Highett Bayside
Apartment terraces, Toorak Rd, Malvern.
Townhouses and units in the Monash, Bayside, Kingston, Glen Eira and Banyule areas.
New residence and garden on double acrage in Lysterfield.
Residential renovation and extension in Fairfield, Darebin.