Vanessa Bird Chairs the Architectural Design Jury for the 2021 Premier's Design Awards. This year the Awards celebrate their 25th Anniversary and were presented during Melbourne Design Week at the NGV. Established by the Victorian Government in 1996, the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards are an opportunity to highlight and celebrate local design capability.

Vanessa Bird has been invited to Chair the Jury for the 2021 Australian Institute of Architects Awards in the 'Residential Architecture - Multiple Housing' category. The AIA Awards are Australia's most pretigious architecture awards being both peer reviewed and visited by the Jury. Co-Jurers are Lachlan Anderson (Wood/Marsh), Ilana Freadman (Freadman White) and graduate observer Aykiz Gokmen. The category covers a diverse range of multi-unit residential housing from duplexes, to apartments, student accommodation, independent living and aged care.

Climate Change Action starts at home.

After committing to Architects Declare we have now proudly achieved Carbon Neutral Certification.

We completed a 3 step process:

1. We commissioned a NoCo2 audit with the Carbon Neutral Institute to measure our 2020 carbon footprint
2. We reduced our emissions with 100% Green Power, no fossil fuels and offset with credits from Biomass with India Clean Energy
3. We committed to annual audits of our emissions.

See our listing in the Low Carbon Economy suppliers site. We also have Carbon Neutral Service Certification.