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The 2010 LookHome™ Green Design Awards are now open. Get your entries and votes in now and be in the running for a range of great prizes. This is a national awards series, judged by a high-calibre expert panel, as well as you, our online voters. Entries must embody sustainable and innovative design as well as demonstrate affordable construction approaches.

As well as national exposure, the Experts’ Choice winners will attend the worlds biggest green building conference, Greenbuild, in Chicago USA, November 2010. Voters can choose the Popular Choice winners by voting for projects they like and win prizes to help them along with their renovation or building journey.

Enter and vote now.

In the third episode of our interactive web streamed tv show myLOOKHOMEtv we focussed on Safe design. Archicentre Managing Director Robert Caulfield and fire consultant Paul England from Exova Warringtonfire talked us through the latest regulations and thinking about  designing and building in bushfire zones. Caulfield also outlined the bushfire design concept service that Archicentre is running for the Victorian Building Commission and shared thoughts about designing for an aging population, based on the insights from the 4500 inspections Archicentre conducts each year for older people.
In addition, in his capacity as the Kidsafe Victoria Vice President Caulfield discussed the common injuries children suffer in the home and how to better design homes with families in mind. Architect and entrant in the Look Green Home Design Awards, Scott Whiteoak, shared the design approach used on a home that incorporated safe design principles for both young and aging occupants for developer Stockland. Vierwers stole the real trade secrets from experts Paul and Robert on the panel. You can see the episode here.