Deadline: 11-Mar-25
The City of Sydney is requesting grant applications to support building owners and owners corporations to receive environmental ratings, certifications and assessments to make their buildings resource-efficient and achieve net zero emissions by 2035.
Funding Information
- Cash funding up to $15,000 is available for each project.
- For-profit organisations are required to match the funding requested with cash. Value-in-kind won’t be accepted.
Funding Priorities
- Their 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/or Torres Strait Islander communities and culture, including community-controlled organisations and networks.
Eligible Activities
- Residential apartment buildings:
- NABERS energy and water ratings supported with an action plan
- Energy, water and waste assessments
- Renewables feasibility assessments
- Building electrification assessment, including electric vehicle charging.
- Accommodation buildings, including hotels, hostels and serviced apartments:
- NABERS energy and water ratings, and waste verification supported with an action plan
- Green Star performance rating
- EarthCheck certification
- Eco-tourism certification
- Energy, water and waste assessments
- Renewables feasibility assessments
- Building electrification assessment, including electric vehicle charging
- Net zero action plan.
Eligibility Criteria
- The owners corporation of a residential building or owner of a building in the accommodation sector in the City of Sydney’s local area can apply.
- These organisations can apply:
- Owners Corporation
- Eligible Not For Profit Organisation
- Incorporated Association
- Corporation
- Co-operative
- Trustee of a Trust
Ineligibility Criteria
- Capital expenditure or capital works
- Sole traders and government departments and agencies
- New buildings
- Commercial office or entertainment building types
- For-profit organisations that don’t match cash funding for the project
- A NABERS rating mandated by government including under the commercial building disclosure scheme at point of sale or lease.
For more information, visit City of Sydney.
