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Desert Rose Team presents to the Engineers Australia Quality in Engineering panel

On 2 May, 2019 Civil Engineering Master of Research student, Andrew Fitzsimmons, along with colleagues Brendan Banfield (SBRC PhD candidate), Mandy Li BEng (Mec... Read More...

Desert Rose Presentation

MPhil (Civil) student Ross Prandalos gave a presentation along with UOW Team members Brendan Banfield (SBRC PhD) and Cameron Porter (BA Creative Arts) to the Su... Read More...

Around the world in an electric car

Dutch traveller stops in at UOW's Sustainable Buildings Research Institute Wiebe Wakker is looking worn out and tired. But it is understandable, considering he has just driven from one side of the planet to the other, covering more than 90,000 kms i... Read More...

Desert Rose blooms after taking out second place with sustainable, age-friendly house

Two years of hard work and innovation awarded second place in international sustainability competition in Dubai Key points: The Desert Rose is a student-d... Read More...

Two Stand-Out SBRC Staff at the Annual AIRAH Awards

Two Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC) members were among the stand-out people, projects and products celebrated at the black-tie AIRAH Awards present... Read More...

SBRC’s Daniel Daly invited to speak at inquiry into rental housing energy efficiency

Daniel Daly, a research fellow at the Sustainable Building Research Centre at the University of Wollongong, was recently invited to provide evidence at a public hearing on improving the energy efficiency of rental properties in Australia. The Senate... Read More...

Team UOW hard at work in Dubai, racing to the finish line

Students battling desert heat and international competition in the Dubai desert to complete the Desert Rose House. Key points: Student-designed and built ... Read More...

SBRC Director becomes AIRAH Fellow

Sustainable Buildings Research Centre Director, Senior Professor Paul Cooper, becomes a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning... Read More...

Getting the temperature just right helps people with dementia stay cool

Federico Tartarini, University of Wollongong; Paul Cooper, University of Wollongong, and Richard Fleming, University of Wollongong Everyone knows how bad it feels when the temperature is uncomfortably hot or cold. For most of us it doesn’t las... Read More...

SBRC Best Research Paper Award

Congratulations to Duane Robinson, Zhenjun and Joel Anderson for winning the Best Research Paper prize at the recent Sustainability in Energy and Buildings Conf... Read More...