HFM was proud to be the National Supporting Partner for the recent Residential Strata Information & Network Sessions. The most recent was held by the Facility Management Association of Australia on the 18th of July at the Telstra CIC in Melbourne. The title of the sessions was “What’s Government Doing for Residential FM”, with […]
The National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) tool, has been leading the way for sustainability in Australia’s property industry for almost 20 years now. During these two decades, the system has had a positive impact in the country, some of the key areas are: The 6-star rating system facilitates the way to communicate a […]
The number of Australians currently living in apartments, is higher than ever before – in fact, according to the latest Census of Population and Housing performed by Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) “The number of occupied apartments (including flats and units, excluding townhouses) in Australia has increased by 78% over the past 25 years” With this […]
Are you Sale or Lease Ready? Changes to the Commercial Building Disclosure (CBD) program came into effect on the 1st of July 2017. However, we believe many landlords or managing agents of commercial office buildings are leaving it too late in the sales or leasing process to think about compliance with the Building Energy Efficiency […]
Let’s talk about our NABERS! NABERS is a rating system that measures the environmental performance of commercial buildings, tenancies and homes throughout Australia. HFM Asset Management is proud to be one of Australia’s largest NABERS assessment companies. For over ten years we have been involved in this program and have helped our customers to improve […]
NABERS is currently undergoing some exciting new changes with their team currently running a pilot program to develop the NABERS Co-Assess Energy Rating tool. NABERS Co-Assess pilot program (Also known as NABERS Combined) is paving the way forward to allow a single application to assess building and office tenancies together. Currently, the NABERS assessment of […]
Economic Benefits of Lowering the Threshold The CBD program has proved to be a low-cost, high-value program which encourages substantial energy efficiency improvements in the commercial office sector. ACIL Allen (2015) states that extending the threshold for mandatory disclosure from 2,000 to 1,000 will yield economic benefits of $24 million in net present value assuming […]
NABERS Case Study 130 Stirling Street 130 Stirling Street Perth Exceeding Expectations “By working in a collaborative way with the main energy consultants, HFM Asset Management, the air conditioning contractors and the building facility managers the team have been able to achieve the high NABERS rating but also maintain a comfortable environment for the tenants.” Read the […]
New NABERS Rating Tool NABERS Multi-Use Tool will be released in 2013 In 2013, we anticipate the new NABERS Multi-Use Tool will be released, which will enable buildings with more than one type of use to be rated. Under the existing protocol mixed use buildings, that include medical suites, educational spaces, residential and other non-office space […]
