Curtin University has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the Cooperative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living (CRCLCL) to set up a node of excellence in research into the low carbon built environment focusing on its Greater Curtin Master Plan.<\/p>\n
The grant will fund five PhD scholarships to work on research aspects of green innovation for the Greater Curtin Master Plan as a part of the CRCLCL node of excellence and living labs project. The funding was announced at a seminar this week by Curtin Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry.<\/p>\n
The Greater Curtin Master Plan is the University\u2019s vision to transform its Bentley Campus through urban renewal and sustainable design to create a 21st century innovation centre. Earlier this year, the Master Plan was awarded Australia\u2019s first 5 Star Green Star \u2013 Communities rating by the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA).<\/p>\n
Curtin Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry said the grant will be used to ensure the Master Plan delivers an innovative, low or even zero carbon, high-performing development.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Greater Curtin Master Plan aims to rebuild the Curtin campus as a city of innovation,\u201d Professor Terry said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCentral to this is the notion of it being a model of low carbon development as well as enabling research and development to be built into every feature of the building process.\u201d<\/p>\n
The research node will be based within the Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP), in the Faculty of Humanities, and be led by CUSP Professor of Sustainability, Peter Newman.<\/p>\n
\u201cCUSP will develop detailed plans and projects in partnership with Curtin’s planners, the private sector, local and State government, the local community, as well as the University\u2019s academic staff and students,\u201d Professor Newman said.<\/p>\n
Several new projects will be initiated and eight CRCLCL projects will be expanded to move them from low carbon to no carbon.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vision of the node is to extend Curtin\u2019s work in low carbon living through a focus on regenerative cities and regions,\u201d Professor Newman said.<\/p>\n
Developing the necessary tools for predicting low carbon outcomes from built environment projects is a major part of the CRCLCL and a focus of CUSP.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe application of these tools will help other precinct-scale developments to use the latest innovations in low carbon, high-performance buildings, infrastructure, and land development processes,\u201d Professor Newman said.<\/p>\n
The node will be similar to other \u2018living laboratories\u2019 being developed on campuses around the world, including one at Chalmers University in Sweden, developed by Professor Greg Morrison.<\/p>\n
The Greater Curtin Master Plan will see 114 hectares of the University\u2019s Bentley Campus transformed
\nthrough urban regeneration over a 20-year period. It supports an urban economy based on education,
\nbusiness, technology, housing, public transport, the arts and recreation.<\/p>\n
About the CRC for Low Carbon Living Ltd<\/strong><\/p>\n The CRC for Low Carbon Living (CRCLCL) is a national research and innovation hub that supports It brings together property, planning, engineering and policy organisations with leading Australian Ultimately the CRCCLC will help unlock barriers to cost-effective carbon reduction opportunities, It is supported by the Cooperative Research Centres program, an Australian Government initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Curtin University has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the Cooperative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living (CRCLCL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-18407","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":{"title":"Frances Thornton","url":"#","target":""},"photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/18407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/18407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18407"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=18407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAustralian industry to be globally competitive in the low carbon built environment sector.<\/p>\n
\nresearchers. CRCLCL develops new social, technological and policy tools for reducing greenhouse gas
\nemissions in the built environment.<\/p>\n
\nempower communities and facilitate the widespread adoption of integrated renewable energy. This will
\nenable the sector to transition and contribute to Australia\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions targets while
\nmaintaining industry competitiveness and improving quality of life.<\/p>\n