MELBOURNE'S CBD has gained another 5-star NABERS energy-rated building, with the office tower at 530 Collins Street. It now operates one of the city's few on-site co-generation plants on its roof. The co-generation plant, together with lighting and fitout upgrades and water-efficient cooling towers, will achieve the 5-star rating, according to the owner, GPT Wholesale
REGYP supplies high quality gypsum for golf courses in NSW. The gypsum products are ideally suited for use on golf course fairways, greens, general agriculture, gardening, lawns and in landscape applications. REGYP can supply low cost: - high quality mined gypsum (purity 94%+), - prilled recycled gypsum (purity 90%+), and - super soluble solution grade
The country's biggest grain handler, CBH Group has warned that WA's lack of rain could cause a 30 per cent drop in crop yield in the key growing areas. Western Australia accounts for about one half of the country's wheat exports. Recently the grain price has been rallying due to poor crops in Europe and
Where does gypsum mining stand? The tax will apply to all mining and petroleum extraction projects other than current projects which are already subject to the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax (although there will be special provisions to allow these projects to, by election, transition to the new tax). In advancing the introduction of the Resource Super
REGYP and Rhino Demolition use the Harbour Constructions barge to remove demolition waste from inaccessible water front properties in Sydney Harbour. The barge can transport trucks from a nearby wharf to the demolition site for loading and return to the wharf for unloading. Harbour Construction's barge coupled with the Webb Comm tugboat, can also transport
High tech companies have called for a less draconian, more flexible approach to ''greening'' old buildings to encourage small business to spend money on refurbishments. But apparently the approach taken to date in Australia only applies to buildings with lettable space and space for sale of more than 2000 square metres. This is a good
Grocon The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) has given Grocon's Pixel building in Melbourne a perfect score under the rating system. This is the 250th building under the green star system. The building will be the first Carbon Neutral office building in Australia with any carbon emissions used in the building's ongoing operation to
Commercial companies face a tough commercial market over the next two years. BIS Shrapnel forecasts non-residential building starts could hit their lowest levels since 2005-06. New data forecasts national non-residential building starts will fall 14 per cent in 2010-11 and 5 per cent 2011-12 as the government stimulus packages wind down. The findings echo the
A 37 percent jump in global wheat prices since early June has boosted sales by Australia, the world’s fourth-biggest exporter. A slight dip in the dollar, plus the combination of that rise, has provided us with some good selling opportunities. Wheat soared as a lack of rain in Russia, Kazakhstan and the European Union and
Robson Civil just undertook civil stabilisation trials in the Hunter using Regyp Super Ag gypsum and Coffey as the consulting engineers. Super Ag gypsum performed on par with the other mined sources trialled for this project (inc Regyp's mined gypsum option), but Super Ag gypsum had the cheapest landed cost. You have visited the REGYP
