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The Charlotte Building in Gresse Street has won the London and South East region British Council for Offices award in the Commercial Workplace category.
 
NDY director Allen Williamson described the win as a significant achievement. “The project was up against some very good competition which makes it all the better that it was selected by the judges,” he said. “It provides an excellent example of our capabilities and we are very proud of our involvement.”

 
Norman Disney & Young staff have been amongst the first group of people to take the field on Melbourne’s newest sporting stadium, AAMI Park. Having played a major role in the stadium’s construction, NDY was invited to participate in a touch rugby event at the ground ahead of its official opening in May.

 
Norman Disney & Young has won a Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Low Carbon Performance Award 2010 for the HP Wynyard Data Centre. The award for Design or Technical Innovation of the Year was presented to NDY at a ceremony in London on 4 February 2010.

The HP Wynyard Data Centre utilises a unique air cooling system. It was designed to achieve annual energy savings of over 40% compared to a typical modern data centre design.

 
Building owners should act quickly to secure assistance from the federal government’s A$90 million Green Building Fund according to Norman Disney & Young’s Melbourne-based manager of MPlus Nick Thurlow.

The Green Building Fund was set up in an attempt to reduce the energy consumed in Australia’s commercial office buildings. Grants of up to $A500,000 are available to owners of existing buildings.