I am grateful to my old pal “Carbon Coach” Dave Hampton for highlighting the quality of sustainable design that is currently going on in Australia.

He is perhaps only half-right, though, when he states that these successes result from “shipping the best the profession has to offer over to Australia and back”. Designing sustainable buildings in a beautiful country with a booming economy – why go back? Form an orderly queue ...

Andrew Pettifer FCIBSE, Arup Sydney