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April 24, 2025
This webinar series showcases experts sharing their valuable insights whether you’re building, retrofitting, or exploring sustainable living.
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Envirotecture now has new and more compelling ways to tell its story. An in-depth collaboration has produced a new website and refreshed brand and design.
March 3, 2025
Envirotecture have been carbon neutral in operations since 2012. Over the years we have used various tools to calculate our footprint and different entities to offset our emissions.
February 16, 2025
Our director Talina Edwards was interviewed for a lovely candid chat with The Mindful Builder Podcast. Her episode has been titled “My Super Power is Passion”.
December 17, 2023
We’ve been proud supporters of Fifteen Trees since our director Talina first met Colleen (founder of Fifteen Trees) back in 2013 – ten years ago now! Fifteen Trees helps individuals and businesses reduce
November 13, 2023
The 2023 Sustainability Award Winners have just been announced! Envirotecture are honoured to our announce that Envirotecture’s founder and director Dick Clarke won a LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD! Whilst there’s still a lot of life
October 20, 2023
Our sister company, Passivhaus Design & Construct, has become a gold sponsor of The Sustainable Builders Alliance.
December 19, 2022
Envirotecture is looking for an outstanding Interior Designer / Interior Architect with at least three years full time experience to join us.
December 2, 2022
We are excited to announce the next chapter in Envirotecture’s evolution is a merger with Talina Edwards Architecture
November 13, 2022
We had the pleasure of attending our first ever richtfest at our curvaceous Elanora Heights passivhaus project. Our wonderful clients Antje, Ute and Markus (also the builder) put on a wonderful spread, it
July 31, 2022
We are looking for a new Interior Designer/Architect for the first time in over a decade. Click through for the details…
May 17, 2022
Irukandji Shark & Ray Encounter at Anna Bay, Port Stephens NSW, just got a whole lot bigger with the opening of the tropical shark lagoon.
December 16, 2021
Much has been said in the popular media about the need to decarbonise our activities. Not before time! At Envirotecture we try to put our money where our mouth is.
October 24, 2021
We’re delighted to announce that Envirotecture have partnered with trace to become a Climate Positive organisation.
October 18, 2021
Every now and then Envirotecture goes through a growth spurt. Oh look – we are going through one now!
February 24, 2021
We design things and take immense joy in watching them as they grow. Now, it is our turn.
March 1, 2020
Late last year, a house designed by Dick Clarke of Envirotecture burnt to the ground in the Gospers Mountain bushfire. Dick investigates why the house burned, and what can be learned to help rebuild it and other houses in fire-prone areas so that it’s less likely to happen again.
Sanctuary
February 29, 2020
Envirotecture are looking for a new member for our passionate team. If you’d like to work with us in delivering some great sustainable outcomes to our wonderful clients then please get in touch.
June 1, 2019
Sustainable designer Dick Clarke explains some of the new developments reshaping the way we build in Australia and around the world, including composite materials that reduce carbon, interrupt waste streams and even re-assemble themselves
March 1, 2019
Often poor performing and riddled with asbestos, is Australia’s ubiquitous fibro shack worth keeping? These two families on opposite sides of the country said yes, opting for renovations and extensions that vastly improved the liveability of their humble homes.
October 26, 2018
At this year’s BDA National Design Awards, our Mudgee Hempcrete House won the prestigious Paul Dass Memorial Prize, took out the Residential Buildings 251-350m2 and over $2000/m2 Category and won a Commendation from
October 21, 2017
Andy Marlow has been elected to the eight member of APHA for a two year term.
September 13, 2017
Director Andy Marlow has recently become a certified Passive House Designer, one of only six in NSW. A tough three-hour exam including designing an entire Passive House, followed an intense two week course.
February 1, 2017
Insulating under slabs has become commonplace, but slab-edge insulation can be just as important. But how do you do it and still provide good termite protection? Dick Clarke explains the physics and a simple design solution.
ReNew
November 23, 2016
For the 146,00 people in NSW and many more nationally about to lose their FeedIn Tariff at the end of 2016 “what to do next?” is the big question. Invest in batteries and
February 1, 2016
Rather than exclude the elements, this rainforest house harmonises with them By Jenny Brown
December 7, 2015
The Banksia Award winning Centre for Liveability Real Estate (CLRE) has begun a quiet revolution in the way sustainable residential property is valued, and marketed, in Australia. Through its ‘features based’ approach, and the list of
October 30, 2015
With a flurry of solar and battery technologies being released this summer it can be overwhelming trying to sort through all the information flying around out there. And with the new solar and
September 21, 2015
This week is World Green Building Week. Started in 2009 by the World GreenBuilding Council the week aims to create a more connected, more interactive, more public conversation around the role buildings play in
August 10, 2015
Why all the fuss about batteries at the moment? What’s it all about? The ability to store energy isn’t new, but the technology to store it at household scale and larger, at an
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