Letter to CIBSE Journal (preGFC)

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 (letters 08/01). 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….