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Building with timber: for people, planet and a better future

January 21, 2021

Published 20 January 2021: https://www.pefc.org/news/building-with-timber-for-people-planet-and-a-better-future/ Our ‘PEFC Webinar: Building a better future with certified timber’ saw three experts in sustainable construction discussing the benefits of timber as a construction material. Timber as a construction material is on the rise, as architects, engineers and builders around the world recognize its versatility, flexibility and benefits for people […]

PEFC Webinar: Building a better future with certified timber

December 14, 2020

Countries around the world are aiming for net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as a response to the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius. The global construction sector has a key role to play in achieving net zero, and PEFC believes that building with low carbon certified timber is a […]

Views from the World Architecture Awards

December 5, 2018

Originally published 4 December 2018: https://www.thefifthestate.com.au/innovation/architecture/views-from-the-world-architecture-awards/ Brisbane based architect Mark Thomson has just come back from judging a segment in the World Architecture Festival in Europe. While he was there he also gave two presentations to the UN General Assembly in Geneva and had a big look around at what countries on the far side of […]

EES Website article May 2017 GREEN HOTEL

“GREEN HOTELS – taking the confusion out of sustainability in the hotel industry” New magazine articles providing green building information and practices Mark Thomson has recently been asked to contribute to two Australian magazines supporting the hotel and hospitality industry to assist in the education of the green rating tools. Accommodation projects have been a […]

If you insist: consumers must drive sustainability

February 17, 2017

Queensland home owners must take the lead in demanding truly sustainable housing if we are to successfully deal with climate change and the current water crisis. Mark Thomson, from the Queensland University of Technology’s School of Design, said the Queensland housing industry was largely paying lip service to sustainable housing and continued to build energy-inefficient, […]

Rebuilding green after the Queensland floods

February 17, 2012

Rebuilding green – that was Mark Thomson’s vision for a Brisbane house devastated by the floods. The architect helped complete an eco retrofit of a two-storey brick veneer home at inner-suburban Chelmer that had been flooded up to the second storey. Mr Thomson, who runs Eco Effective Solutions, is one of 16 leading Queensland sustainable […]

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