Commonwealth Property Office Fund scoops the pool with Green Building Fund
Commonwealth Property Office Fund scoops the pool with Green Building Fund
The property industry might be in the clutches of the global financial crisis but this hasn’t stopped the biggest commercial property owners - and many not so big - digging deep to in order to qualify for a 50:50 green building fund grant from the Federal Government to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings. |
| 16 Jul 2009, by Tina Perinotto |
| Most of the well known names were there - AMP, ISPT, Abacus, GPT and Mirvac, Valad, Westpac and FKP - claiming the maximum or close to the maximum grant of $500,000 - in the first two rounds of grants. But one property owner stood out - Commonwealth Property Office Fund. Not only did it pull out the stops to claim funding for three of its buildings but it managed to lodge a successful case to snare a special grant of nearly $3 million in order to install a wind array scheme on the roof of its 385 Bourke Street, Melbourne. Read more at The Fifth Estate... |
