Umow Lai was pleased to welcome an all-female group of students from Presentation College Windsor to our Engineering Students @Work Program. During the week-long placement, students undertook a brief to design a school eLearning and Collaboration Hub for a student population of 1,200 and ready for occupancy in 2027. The challenge saw the students preparing [...]
Umow Lai is proud to once again be part of the team on award winning projects 171 Collins Street and the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre. Awarded 2017 Victorian Development of the Year and Tenderfield People’s Choice by the Property Council of Australia / Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) Innovation & Excellence Awards, 171 Collins Street is [...]
We congratulate Senior Associate Simon Umow and Associate Sam Adams on their recent promotion. For more than 15 years, Simon Umow has applied his expert knowledge of the many facets of ICT design to provide design advice for a whole range of commercial, government, residential, hospitality and educational buildings. Complex audio visual facilities and system [...]
Based around the principles of the International Thermal Comfort Standard ISO 7730, Passive House aims to provide year-round optimal thermal comfort and minimum energy consumption. Compared to buildings of “standard” construction, a Passive House building will consume up to 90% less energy in operation for heating, cooling and ventilation needs. The history of the Passive [...]
A new building at Melbourne University shows how architecture can deliver joy and functionality. Cameras are already pointed at Arts West, a new building for the faculty of the arts at the University of Melbourne. Read More .... Publication: The Age Commercial Real Estate, March 11, 2017
For the first Major Breakfast Seminar to be held on 16 March and titled ‘The Paris Agreement, renewable’s and buildings’, Shane Esmore, Umow Lai Director and Head of Sustainability, will focus on the Agreement and the implications for the Australian building sector. The Paris Agreement came into force in November 2016, thirty days after the [...]
25th anniversary We work hard and we know how to celebrate! During September, we hosted several successful events to commemorate our 25th anniversary. Around 300 people, a veritable ‘who’s who’ of people associated with the engineering, architecture, property and building industry, joined our directors and staff in the Jim Stynes Room of the Melbourne Cricket [...]
Umow Lai is delighted to have the opportunity to provide a range of services for Winton’s famous Waltzing Matilda Centre that is being rebuilt following a devastating fire in 2015.“We are working with Cox Architecture as a member of the project team to rebuild the Centre. This is a part of our European cultural heritage [...]
Providing the highest level of sustainable design and Green Star services for the new School of Design building at The University of Melbourne has led to the project being selected as a finalist in the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating (AIRAH) 2016 Awards - Award for Excellence in Sustainability. According to Shane [...]
Effective Risk Management can help a business identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of a project. By identifying the potential risks, it is then possible to plan how to mitigate them, possibly even removing them completely. Step one in any Risk Assessment is preparation. One of the key strategies for effective Risk Management is [...]
