Why choose OS&E?

OSE and the FWR Group are dedicated to sustainability, and to assisting you in incorporating sustainability into your business - your developments - your products - to your clients and customers.

When it comes to creating a sustainable urban environment, with both HIA Greensmart Professional Accreditation and Green Building Council of Australia GreenStar Accreditation, you can be assured that Michael is fully conversant in contemporary sustainable development principles, tools and systems. These tools and systems are therefore available to assist your project achieve industry acknowledged high standards of efficiency and sustainability.

Furthermore, in assisting you to ensure your project's environmental footprint is minimised, Michael has experience in both the public and private sectors in the development assessment arena, addressing key issues of water and air quality, flora and fauna, cultural heritage, waste management, town planning, landscape planning, and regulatory requirements under relevant environmental and planning legislation.

Sustainable business is a growing are of application - leading companies worldwide are seeking to demonstrate that they are more sustainable in meeting their customers' and stakeholders' needs, while leaving a positive legacy for future generations in terms of climate change, resource use, and engaged communities. Through his role as Associate to AtKisson Sustainability, Michael can provide you with industry leading sustainable business strategy development, ensuring your business is recognised for the positivce legacy it leaves for future generations.

We have experience with both private sector and government clinets. Our background includes providing support to the development industry, providing advice on a wide range of environmental and sustainability issues, including energy efficiency, water efficiency, water sensitive urban design, habitat management, climate responsive design, and including social outcomes to achieve sustainability.

Our current past and present clients include a number of State and Local Governments in Queensland, Australia, furthering sustainable development through identifying barriers and constraints, devising strategies and preparing key documents and policies, coordinating partnerships, and engaging stakeholders.

Through our experience in the public and private sectors, we have established excellent relationships with a network of skilled professionals - specialists in environmental issues and sustainable design and technology - with whom we can connect and engage on the relevant aspects of your project, to ensure that solutions happen in the most sustainable manner.

Project Review - Sustainability Strategy prepared for Jennifer Bartlett, Brisbane City Council, 2006
 

Brisbane City Council had already identified a number of key objectives to support its vision of Living in Brisbane 2010. Within Council, a number of divisions already recognise the concept of sustainability and its relevance to the way they do business, for both internal and external stakeholders. Many of these initiatives are relevant to ensuring that Council’s vision carries through to the built environment in Brisbane.

Michael was commissioned to assist in identifying means and opportunities to achieve greater results in implementing sustainability in Brisbane’s built environment. The project had a number of key outcomes including:

  • To identify and build on existing knowledge and programs related to sustainability within the urban environment (in both the residential and commercial development sector) internal and external to Council;
  • to identify clear opportunities to ‘mainstream sustainability’ with internal and external stakeholders;
  • to communicate the practicalities, report on successes and failures; and
  • to apply the knowledge and outcomes related to sustainability in the built environment across Council activities and programs, both now and into the future.

Michael is also an Independent Associate of AtKisson Sustainability (www.atkisson.com), lead by Alan AtKisson, a world renowned exponent of sustainability, and author of Believing Cassandra - An optimist looks at a pessimist's world. Through his international affiliations, Michael is able to connect his clients to some of the leading experts in sustainability worldwide, and to use those connection to achieve genuine results.

The advantage to you is the ability to tap into years of accumulated experience in the application of sustainability - in government agencies, communities, and business - and to identify proven techniques and solutions to help you achieve more sustainable business and project outcomes.

Put simply, our vision for our clients, through both OS&E and FWR Group Pty Ltd is to "Accelerate Sustainability“ –  to help you understand the benefits to business through managing impacts on the natural environment, to identify how sustainable outcomes and business practices relate to opportunities for increased profitability, and to make the transition to sustainability for businesses and communities - and for you - as easy as possible.