Innovation to Build On

Master Builders ACT partnered with the Canberra Innovation Network (Cbrin) to deliver a networking event where MBA Conference attendees heard from four inventors about their game-changing ideas. These four ideas all aim to provide sustainable change for businesses in the construction industry.

POWERHAUS ENGINEERING

Designers and builders want to build a smart home, designed for the future. The information from energy efficiency ratings can be clunky, conflicting, and doesn’t help people make big-picture decisions about their build. The Powerhaus design tuning tool helps people build smart, energy-efficient homes for the future, with interactive data deciding on build specifications, windows, orientation and energy use. We cut through the slow process on energy ratings, solar sizing and heating and cooling decisions to put clear answers in your hands.

Contact our team to see if we’re the fit to help you build smarter.

Website: www.powerhausengineering.com.au

Email: team@powerhausengineering.com.au

Phone: 0401 268 558 EVALUE8

Evalue8 empowers businesses with the ability to shape the future of our planet through technology. They can help businesses achieve net-zero in a day or demonstrate clear progress over time towards their own reduction targets.

They do this by automating the carbon accounting process and easily identifying cost and carbon saving opportunities, Evalue8 allows you to track your emissions and demonstrate your progress to achieving genuine decarbonisation.

To find out more contact Ilea Buffier, founder and CEO at ilea@evalue8.net or visit our website at evalue8.net.

MY GREEN BUTLER

Over 80% of travellers want to stay in sustainable tourist accommodation, and businesses across the world must now cut carbon and costs to survive and meet government regulations.

My Green Butler revolutionises sustainability and accommodation by involving everyone in saving. Live resource usage, eco-feedback, and gamification motivates guests, staff, and management, saving over 35% in resources, cost, and carbon.

My Green Butler monitors electricity, water, gas, temperature, and more, and automates ESG reporting. We are implemented with ease into existing or new builds and are appropriate for all types of infrastructure – hotels, apartments, lodges, offices, homes, and schools.

Website: www.mygreenbutler.com

Email: maxwell@mygreenbutler.com

Phone: 0437 161 574 SCRATCHIE CANBERRA

Problem: Safety in construction is not improving

Builders spend a lot of time and money on safety. Yet recently, Safe Work Australia data shows that safety at work has not improved over the past seven years. A report by McKinsey found this was due to an overwhelmingly negative environment around safety. The report suggested rewarding safety, rather than punishing its absence.

Solution: Reward safe work

Rewarding safe work is now possible and very easy. Canberra-based startup Scratchie offers an app that allows supervisors to reward workers, on the spot, for safe work. Tested by Laing O’Rourke, John Holland, Richard Crookes and others, the results are overwhelmingly positive: a 26% improvement in safety attitudes amongst workers, supervisors save 1-2 hours per week, and clients (particularly large owners and government) are more likely to award tenders to builders that demonstrate safety initiatives. Scratchie even has a free option.

WASTE MATERIALS, RECYCLED, REUSED

New Name, New Direction.

CANBERRA CONSTRUCTION RECYCLERS, formerly Canberra Concrete Recyclers, specialise in demolition and construction waste management, throughout industry lifecycles. Recognising that Construction is the single largest consumer of raw materials – accounting for a large percentage of carbon emissions – CCR has developed effi cient and effective recycling services specifi cally for the industry. This enables the construction industry to take a more responsible approach to waste management. CCR offers a wide range of affordable building and landscaping supplies. The broad client base, made up of small, medium and large business, as well as contractors and home owners, collectively recognise CCR’s tangible value to the environment, and their bottom line.

Join the Construction Life Cycle. Sell. Buy. Save. Recycle And Reuse.

Gate 384, Pialligo Avenue, Canberra Mon – Fri 7.00 - 4.30 Sat 7.00 - 12 noon PHONE (02) 6249 7427 EMAIL customer@ccract.com.au

The Master Builders Fidelity Fund was established in 2002 to protect the interests of builders and home owners in the ACT.

Income received by the Master Builders Fidelity Fund remains in the ACT, and is securely invested, and used for the betterment of the ACT building and construction industry.

The Fund issues Fidelity Certifi cates which provide protection for new homes or those making substantial changes, if the builder dies, disappears or becomes insolvent. The Certifi cates protect the owner during construction and for up to fi ve years from the date a Certifi cate of Occupancy is issued.

Members of Master Builders ACT receive reduced premium rates.

For more information, please contact the Master Builders Fidelity Fund.