Green Melbourne Highlights
Melbourne Convention Centre
Opened in June 2009 and integrated with the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, the Melbourne Convention Centre is the world's first convention centre to earn a '6 Star Green Star' environmental rating.
The Centre was designed to surpass standards of environmental sustainability and innovation. The wood veneer panelling used throughout the facility comes from sustainable timber. The building's mechanics include a displacement ventilation system that provides excellent air change effectiveness and high indoor air quality at low energy consumption.
Waste water runs through a black water treatment plant, reducing water consumption by 50 per cent, and 40 per cent of the Centre's hot water and heat requirements come from solar systems.
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Queen Victoria Market
One of Melbourne's most visited attractions, and popular with incentive groups, the Queen Victoria Market is also environmentally friendly. The market has 1,328 solar panels covering one third of the roof. It is the largest urban grid-connected solar photovoltaic installation in the Southern Hemisphere. It has the capacity to generate 252,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year for the market - enough to power around 46 average homes per year.
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Alto Hotel on Bourke
The Alto Hotel has achieved the prestigious NoCO2, or Carbon Neutral Certification through the Carbon Reduction Institute.
Enhancing its reputation as one of Melbourne's leading hotels in innovation, Alto Hotel on Bourke has become Australia's first city-based carbon neutral hotel to provide all of its services and facilities as carbon neutral without increasing its pricing as a result.
SkyBus
Melbourne's airport shuttle service, SkyBus, supports Greenfleet, a non-profit organisation that offsets greenhouse gas emissions produced by Australian transport. Each year 6,000 native trees are planted to offset the CO2 produced by SkyBus' fleet of low emission buses.