We are thrilled to announce that Uma Springford from Cbus Property has been appointed to our Board of Directors! 🌿 Uma has over 25 years of industry experience at leading property groups Cbus Property, Mirvac and Lendlease. She has proven expertise, in her current role as Executive General Manager Development for Cbus Property, in strategic leadership, project management, financial analysis and stakeholder management. Uma has a proven track record in strategic leadership, project management, financial analysis, and stakeholder management. Her expertise spans large-scale urban renewal projects and the development of premium commercial and residential properties. Uma's extensive experience also encompasses design, construction, and sustainability management. We are looking forward to working together as we guide the built environment industry toward #RegenerativeDesign. 🌏 Please join us in welcoming Uma! #LivingFuture #LFIA
Living Future Institute of Australia
Environmental Services
Sydney, NSW 6,364 followers
For a socially just, culturally rich, and ecologically restorative future
About us
We believe that every act of design and construction can make the world a better place. We are committed to promoting and building capacity for the world's most rigorous proven performance standard for buildings as well as transparency labels for materials and organisations.
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https://living-future.org.au/
External link for Living Future Institute of Australia
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Sydney, NSW
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2012
- Specialties
- Living Building Challenge, One Planet Living, Passive House, Biomimicry, Training and Education, Advocacy, Declare, Biophilic Design, Regenerative Development, and Regenerative Design
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Primary
Sydney
Sydney, NSW 2000, AU
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Melbourne
Melbourne, VIC 3000, AU
Employees at Living Future Institute of Australia
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🌱 NEW BLOG POST: The Living Building Challenge® is recognised as one of the most stringent green building certification programs in the world. It's a powerful tool for driving regenerative design in the built environment. 🌏 But what does it actually mean, and how does it work in the real world? 💡 Damon Cuming, Deputy-Chair of the Living Future Institute of Australia Technical Working Group offers valuable insights in our latest LFIA blog post. Discover the significance of the "three-quarters baked" approach, the Request for Ruling Process, real world examples, and more. 📖 READ IT HERE: https://lnkd.in/gF4przix We extend a heartfelt thank you to Damon for sharing his expertise and contributing this informative article. #LivingFuture #LivingBuildingChallenge #RegenerativeDesign #RegenerativeArchitecture #LFIA
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Evcco Australia Low Smoke Zero Halogen Flame Retardant Electrical conduits and fittings #RedListFree Declare® Label has been on the program continuously since 2016! 🎉 Join us in acknowledging Albatech's amazing leadership in materials health and transparency. At the Living Future Institute of Australia, we advocate building with products that promote a healthier environment for both people and the planet. The Declare® database showcases diverse product types to help specifiers make considered choices, including these PVC-free conduits and fittings. Find out more about Declare® here: https://lnkd.in/g3VNRVmr Let's celebrate ongoing innovation and sustainability within the building industry. Together, we have the power to foster positive transformation and drive the uptake of regenerative design in the built environment. 🌏 https://lnkd.in/gNus4pUe #Declare #LivingFuture #MaterialsTransparency #HealthyBuildings #RedListFree #PVCFree
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We are delighted to welcome Weathertex to the Declare® Program! 👏👏 Congratulations and thank you for your commitment and leadership in product transparency labelling. 🌏 You can find out more about the Weathertex #RedListFree Declare® label products here: https://lnkd.in/g5kUce6d #Declare #LivingFuture #MaterialsTransparency
Weathertex Joins the Declare Label Program: Transparency in Building Materials 🌱 We’re excited to announce that Weathertex has joined the Declare Label Program by the International Living Future Institute, further solidifying our commitment to product transparency. With Declare labels for both our primed and Natural Ranges, you can trust that Weathertex is Red List Free from harmful chemicals like glues, resins, formaldehydes and silica. This certification empowers specifiers and builders to make informed decisions for healthier, more sustainable buildings. 👉 Read more about our recent accreditation and what it means for your next project in our latest article https://lnkd.in/g_5U-ZaY #Sustainability #DeclareLabel #RedListFree #BuildingMaterials #HealthyBuilding #Weathertex
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Chadstone Place office tower achieves Australia's first Zero Carbon Certification 🎉 A huge congratulations to Vicinity Centres and Officeworks for their leadership and commitment! The International Living Future Institute's Zero Carbon Certification demonstrates actual decarbonisation by: 💡 Being super efficient, combustion free and powered by renewables 💡 Tackling both operational and embodied carbon emissions 💡 Performance based 💡 Third party verified To read more about the project and certification, head to the Newsroom 👇 https://lnkd.in/gqMWzRig #LivingFuture #ZeroCarbon #leadership
Chadstone Place office tower achieves an Australian first 👏 Working closely with our committed and collaborative tenant Officeworks, we have transformed our Chadstone Place office tower into an internationally celebrated model for zero carbon development. Chadstone Place became the first Australian building to receive the prestigious Zero Carbon Certification from the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), underscoring both Vicinity and Officeworks’ commitment to sustainability and innovation. The ILFI’s Zero Carbon Certification is the world’s only performance-based standard for buildings that addresses both operational and embodied carbon emissions. To read more about the award and Chadstone Place, head to our Newsroom 👇 https://lnkd.in/gqMWzRig [Image descriptions: Render of a glass fronted office tower with golden window and plant-lined entrance way; Open plan office interior with large communal table and orange staircase; Rooftop solar panels viewed through an office window with plant and seats in foreground] #Vicinity #ShoppingCentres #Development #Sustainability
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Celebrating 12 years of the Living Future Institute of Australia!🌟🌟 Together, we are creating a future that is socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative. 🌱🌏 #LivingFuture #LFIA
Incredibly special last night to gather board directors past and present to celebrate 12 years of Living Future Institute of Australia. 🥳 These wonderful humans (plus those who were unable to be there) have guided the organisation through its early days, the Covid years, design competitions, important partnerships, the first building certifications, 5 Symposiums, the passing of Jeff and Harris plus so many other things. I hope you are all so proud of the organisation you helped build and the future ahead of it. Thank you 🙏 “Our mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of hope” ~ Victoria Stafford Vanessa Trowell Robert Wilcher Louise Norton Dan Sturrock Katie Fallowfield Kate Doyle Paolo Bevilacqua Peri Macdonald Dr Dominique Hes Mary Casey Caroline Pidcock LFRAIA Tom Grosskopf Suzie Barnett Scott Matyus-Flynn Neil Arckless International Living Future Institute #LivingFuture
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⭐️ We're celebrating 222 products on the Declare® database in New Zealand and Australia! A huge shout-out to the 80 different manufacturers represented, for their strong leadership and efforts in moving the market to become more transparent and sustainable. 🌏 Global Milestone: Together, these products represent 15% of all global Declare® labels, showcasing our region's commitment to product transparency and healthy materials. 🔴 Materials Health Impact: Of the 139 products with Declare labels in Australia, and the 83 products with Declare labels in New Zealand, the vast majority are either #RedListFree or #RedListApproved status. This means that they do not contain chemicals on the global Living Building Challenge's Red List. 🌱 Declare® is a trusted global public database and 'nutrition label' for building products that helps create a healthier built environment. Declare simplifies complex ingredient information and answers simple but important questions – Where does the product come from? What is it made of? Where does it go at the end of its life? ♻️ We’re so proud of the hard work and dedication demonstrated by Declare® manufacturers (and their supply chains), in establishing and disclosing what their products are made of (at and above 100ppm =0.01%), and even making substitutions to their product composition. 💫 For more on the New Zealand and Australian products and manufacturers represented on the Declare® database, see https://lnkd.in/gnprFvb4 #Declare #LivingFuture #MaterialsTransparency #HealthyMaterials #HealthyBuildings #CircularEconomy
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Looking forward to this tomorrow, always intriguing to hear a story of a project!
🌱 Meet the winners of the National Biophilic Design Award in our lunchtime webinar on Wednesday 18th September! 🌿 Learn about the winning projects of the Community and Urban Scale category from 2024 and 2023, including the Bendigo Law Courts Forecourt and the Bundanon Art Museum and Bridge. SPEAKERS 🌳 Anne-Marie Pisani, First Peoples’ Partnerships and Design Lead, ASPECT Studios, AILA Fellow Anne-Marie is committed to advocating and practising culturally responsive and meaningful design processes with First People’s communities which enable self-determination through a genuine collaborative engagement. She understands and deeply respects the value local communities knowledge brings to design and encourages us all to connect with this ‘Indigenous way of knowing’. She has successfully implemented this approach through many of her projects working with Traditional Owners from across Victoria. She is the immediate past co-chair of AILA’s National ‘Connection to Country’ Committee, a current panel member for both the VDRP and MDRP and leads Aspect Studios in focusing on genuine and respectful involvement with Traditional Owners. 🌳Lloyd McCathie, Principal Kerstin Thompson Architects Lloyd is an Associate Principal at KTA with close to 20 years industry experience. He joined KTA in 2016 and has contributed to several award-winning projects, such as the Broadmeadows Town Hall, Queen & Collins, Bundanon Art Museum & Bridge and multiple government schools. His primary interests lie in education, public and civic projects, and how they can contribute to communities as pieces of civic and social infrastructure. He enjoys the role of all-rounder, having led numerous projects across feasibility, design, town planning, documentation and construction phases. WEBINAR DETAILS 📅 Date: Wednesday 18th September 2024 🕑Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (AEST) 🎫Cost: FREE for LFIA Members, $20 for Non-Members 🌳BOOK your spot today. https://lnkd.in/gb6YTwWb #biophilicdesign #biophilic #biophilia #architecture #biophilicarchitecture #landscapearchitecture #rengerativedesign #livingfuture #lfia
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🌱 Need some mid-week inspiration? Don't forget to book into our next National Biophilic Design Award winners lunchtime webinar on Wednesday 18th September! 🌿 Learn about the winning projects of the Community and Urban Scale category from 2024 and 2023, including the Bendigo Law Courts Forecourt and the Bundanon Art Museum and Bridge. WEBINAR DETAILS 📅 Date: Wednesday 18th September 2024 🕑Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (AEST) 🎫Cost: FREE for LFIA Members, $20 for Non-Members SPEAKERS Anne-Marie Pisani, First Peoples’ Partnerships and Design Lead, ASPECT Studios Lloyd McCathie, Principal, Kerstin Thompson Architects 🌳BOOK your spot now! https://lnkd.in/gb6YTwWb #biophilicdesign #biophilic #biophilia #architecture #biophilicarchitecture #landscapearchitecture #rengerativedesign #livingfuture #lfia
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🌱 Meet the winners of the National Biophilic Design Award in our lunchtime webinar on Wednesday 18th September! 🌿 Learn about the winning projects of the Community and Urban Scale category from 2024 and 2023, including the Bendigo Law Courts Forecourt and the Bundanon Art Museum and Bridge. SPEAKERS 🌳 Anne-Marie Pisani, First Peoples’ Partnerships and Design Lead, ASPECT Studios, AILA Fellow Anne-Marie is committed to advocating and practising culturally responsive and meaningful design processes with First People’s communities which enable self-determination through a genuine collaborative engagement. She understands and deeply respects the value local communities knowledge brings to design and encourages us all to connect with this ‘Indigenous way of knowing’. She has successfully implemented this approach through many of her projects working with Traditional Owners from across Victoria. She is the immediate past co-chair of AILA’s National ‘Connection to Country’ Committee, a current panel member for both the VDRP and MDRP and leads Aspect Studios in focusing on genuine and respectful involvement with Traditional Owners. 🌳Lloyd McCathie, Principal Kerstin Thompson Architects Lloyd is an Associate Principal at KTA with close to 20 years industry experience. He joined KTA in 2016 and has contributed to several award-winning projects, such as the Broadmeadows Town Hall, Queen & Collins, Bundanon Art Museum & Bridge and multiple government schools. His primary interests lie in education, public and civic projects, and how they can contribute to communities as pieces of civic and social infrastructure. He enjoys the role of all-rounder, having led numerous projects across feasibility, design, town planning, documentation and construction phases. WEBINAR DETAILS 📅 Date: Wednesday 18th September 2024 🕑Time: 12:00-1:00 PM (AEST) 🎫Cost: FREE for LFIA Members, $20 for Non-Members 🌳BOOK your spot today. https://lnkd.in/gb6YTwWb #biophilicdesign #biophilic #biophilia #architecture #biophilicarchitecture #landscapearchitecture #rengerativedesign #livingfuture #lfia