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Australia’s Green Olympics
Australia has a strong reputation for developing and implementing green principles in the building and construction sector, most recognisably achieved from the successful completion of the ‘Green Olympics’ in Sydney 2000. The Green Games and the surrounding Homebush site continue to be an excellent working showcase of many of Australia's environmental technologies and services. Australia’s world-leading environmental capabilities include site rehabilitation, waste minimisation and transformation, wastewater treatment and re-use, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources, transport planning and event management.
Stadium Australia, the venue for the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, seating
110, 000 spectators during the games achieved the following key results in comparison to conventional stadium:
• 30% reduction in energy use
• 37% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
• 13% reduction in water use with 77% of water used either recycled or collected on site
Stadium Australia not only reduces energy use but the energy that it purchases is ‘Green Energy’ harvested from solar and wind – renewable technologies that do not produce greenhouse gas emissions.
Moving to the Olympic Village and the wider suburb of Newington – some of the ‘green technologies’ in use resulted in:
• A 50% reduction in energy requirements and greenhouse emissions compared to conventional dwellings
• Use of rooftop photovoltaic cells to generate household energy demands
• 50% reduction in potable water usage as compared to conventional dwellings, and
• PVC use reduced by at least 40% compared to typical housing construction.