Deadline: 7-Mar-23
The City of Sydney is inviting applications for the Green Building Grants Program to support owners’ corporations and building owners in the residential 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
- Their funding will priorities 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 Start Performance or EarthCheck assessment and/or certification
- Energy audits that conform to the AS3598 standard
- 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:
- Applications from new buildings
- Applications from commercial office or entertainment building types
- Applications from for-profit organisations that do not provide evidence of matched cash funding for the project
- Instances 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.