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Dick Clarke speaking at Grand Designs Live, Sydney

Envirotecture offers a range of training courses tailored to increase practical solutions focussed knowledge of sustainability in building design and construction.

Over many years we have formulated courses for Councils, the Housing Industry Association (HIA), the Building Designers Association (BDA), and the Association of Building Sustainability Assessors (ABSA), among others.

Training workshops cater for a wide variety of audience types:

  • architects, building designers, and developers;
  • builders and trade suppliers;
  • Council staff;
  • students;
  • consumers: home owners contemplating renovation or new building.

Envirotecture’s founding Director, Dick Clarke, has consulted to and written fact sheets for the renowned Your Home Technical Manual, produced by the Australian Government. (Click here to go to http://www.yourhome.gov.au/technical/)

Dick Clarke is also an Al Gore trained volunteer presenter of the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Climate Project.

Tracy Graham is a regular trainer at the City of Sydney Council’s Watershed at Newtown, on a range of specialist sustainability issues, and is a recipient of their Trainer of the Year Award in 2007.