Melbourne Branch monthly meeting August 18th 2010
This meeting was held at 5:45pm on Wednesday August 18th at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
The topic:
Alternative Heating
meeting description
Conveners: Simon Wilson and Peter Wonfor
Many home heating systems use gas-fired forced hot air, and while relatively simple to install [...]

Melbourne Branch special workshop August 14th 2010
This meeting will be held at 2pm on Saturday August 14th at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
Arduino Microcontroller Workshop
workshop description
Convener: Paul Fritze
This introductory workshop will explore how the Arduino microcontroller board (shown at the ATA Melbourne Project Night [...]

This meeting was held at 5:45pm on Wednesday July 21 st at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
The topic:
Sustainable Building
Sustainable House Features
Convener: Tim Hamer
Design Features in 6 Star Energy Rating Houses
Speaker: Tim Hamer (ATA Melbourne Branch) discussed the approach of VicUrban (an arm of [...]

This meeting was held at 5:45pm on Wednesday June 16th at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
The topic:
ATA Melbourne Project Night
Convener: Paul Fritze
This month’s meeting had a very different format…
Around 20 members (including a few guests) ‘volunteered’ to put on show their personal projects. The [...]

This meeting was held at 5:45pm on Wednesday May 19th at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
Topic: Concentrating Solar Thermal with heat storage (e.g. molten salt)
Convener: Jim Lambert
Speaker: Patrick Hearps (Technical Director for the Zero Carbon Australia 2020 project)
Concentrating Solar Thermal has exciting capabilities for [...]

This meeting was held at 5:45pm on Wednesday April 21st at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
Topic: Greening your Garden with Stormwater
Convener: Jessica Davison
Speakers: Madeline Laurenson (raingarden expert) and Vaughn Greenhill (stormwater harvesting practitioner)
Did you know that it takes only 1ml of rain on an hard [...]

This meeting was be held at 5:45pm on Wednesday March 17th at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
Topic:
Domestic Air Conditioning – Past, Present and Future
Convener: Tim Hamer & Antoni Pisa
Synopsis:
This was an information session outlining the current issues of domestic A/C (power consumption, peak load, [...]

This meeting was held at 5:45pm on Wednesday February 17th at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
Topic: Grey Water Systems
Convenors: Peter Wonfor & Simon Wilson
Guest Speaker: Ken Pepyat (from “Wet Innovations”, a division of Wet Technologies) 
Ken discussed his company’s water treatment technology in the context of grey [...]

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Tentative Topics 2010 (and list of meeting dates)
Solar Aircon (see March 2010 meeting report)
Grey water (see Feb 2010 meeting report)
Stormwater (see April 2010 meeting report)
Concentrating Solar thermal with heat storage (EG molten salt) (see May 2010 meeting report)
Poster Session/Project Night  (see June 2010 meeting report)
Sustainable Building (see July 2010 meeting report)
Alternative Heating – Ground-source [...]

ATA Melbourne
Branch

Events Pre-2010

Nov 2009 LED lighting, efficient appliances etc
Oct 2009 Building Sustainably in Bushfire Prone Areas
Sept 2009 Battery technology
Aug 2009 Follow up on electric vehicles inc hybrids
July 2009 REC’s, green power, community power etc etc
June 2009 How to have a garden in the drought
May 2009 Solar power (not just PV’s)
Apr 2009 Alternative fuels for [...]