Deadline: 05-Mar-2024
The City of Sydney is offering grants to make existing buildings more resource efficient and achieve net zero.
The green building grants program supports building owners in the residential apartment building and accommodation sector to undertake environmental ratings, certifications, audits and assessments for existing buildings to be resource efficient and achieve net zero emissions by 2035.
Funding Priorities
- The funding will prioritise projects that:
- drive existing residential buildings to be resource efficient and achieve net zero emissions
- enable buildings in key sectors to improve their environmental performance.
- They encourage applications from organisations that support Aboriginal and Torres and Strait Islander communities and culture, including Aboriginal community-controlled organisations and networks.
Funding Information
- Cash funding up to $15,000 is available per project.
- For-profit organisations are required to match the funding requested with cash (value-in-kind will not be accepted).
Funding can support:
- NABERS, Green Star Performance or EarthCheck assessment and/or certification
- residential energy/water/waste assessments
- renewables/electrification feasibility assessments
- net zero action plans.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible an applicant must be an owners corporation of an existing residential strata building or the owner of an existing building in the accommodation sector in the City of Sydney’s local area.
- These organisations can apply:
- Not-for-profit organisations
- For-profit organisations
- Owners corporation.
- The application must be for works on one of these building types:
- residential strata
- accommodation (hotels, hostels and serviced apartments).
Ineligible
- Funding is not available for:
- buildings in planning or development stages
- commercial office or entertainment buildings
- for-profit organisations that do not provide evidence of matched cash funding for the project
- buildings where a NABERS rating is required by government including under the commercial building disclosure scheme (at point of sale or lease)
- projects that directly contravene the eligibility and ethics framework or existing City of Sydney policies
- capital expenditure or capital works.
For more information, visit City of Sydney.