Our team member Serena King has graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering Degree, Majoring in Electronic and Energy Engineering with Honours from Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland. Serena’s proud family including her niece and nephew, were there to celebrate her achievement at a low-key graduation event held on campus in December. Growing up on the …
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How prepared are we for a non-violent social crisis? Planning and preparation are key to ensuring we are able to cope with any radical changes in our community especially in Australia as we are more susceptible for natural disasters. Community resilience is critical in minimising the effect of these disasters and contributes to a quicker …
An energy audit is carried our by our in-house environmental engineer and is a thorough review of the energy consumption of your business and provides analysis of where energy can be saved for greater energy efficiency and cost saving opportunities. An energy audit is an initial step towards economic and environmental sustainability in your business …
Energy management and consumption analysis are key tools to cost and energy savings for any industry building. When regarding a company with multiple sites, such as a Federal Government Agency, energy production and consumption analysis can result in significant savings. SmartConsult were recently commissioned by the Federal Government Agency to carry out energy assessments including …
Bringing engineers together with architects is no easy task. However, the latest iHub initiative ‘Integrated Design Studios’ allowed an early collaboration between architects and HVAC engineers to discuss major energy savings. Our consultant Derek Harbison was recently involved in the event hosted by Melbourne University with the aim to increase innovation at the conceptual design …
Understanding how an engineers’ mind works is one thing, but understanding how they speak can be quite another. Engineers have their own language it’s a fair point, as they can be known to describe things in an abstract way. We should know as we currently have four in-house at SmartConsult! When it comes to finding …
SmartConsult were pleased to present at the A2EP heat pumps session at the National Energy Efficiency Conference last month discussing the potential for industrial heat pumps to help phase out gas and decarbonise industry. At the session Jarrod discussed the A2EP’s work on heat pumps with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and presented the Heat Pump Selection …
How does Air Conditioning as a Service sound? With the HFC phase down looming, transitioning away from HFC based air conditioning systems are not optional but essential. The old systems have to go and new ones need to be installed in their place. But is there a way of transitioning AND avoid the high CapEx …
We are pleased to announce a new member of the SmartConsult team; Roxy Diephuis. Roxy is an environmental engineer from the Netherlands and has a Bachelor of Science in engineering (Bsc) in Spatial Development and Climate and Management from The Hague University. We caught up with Roxy on the couch to ask her a bit …
Another Super fund is taking more responsibility for climate change committing to net zero by 2050. It is responsible for Superannuation fund providers to disclose their investment decisions as well as the way they are managing climate change to their customers, offering that full transparency that’t needed and it is ethical to do so. …
