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The Zero Carbon Home designed by Energy Aspect Living has surged strongly during the past two days in the People's Choice voting for South Australia's pioneering Zero Carbon Challenge.

As a specialist in environmentally sustainable house construction, Woodside-based builder Energy Aspect Living is one of just four finalists to reach this stage of the Zero Carbon Challenge with its innovative design for an affordable, environmentally-friendly home.

Energy Aspect Living has recruited a team of creative SA businesses, including iconoclastic cartoonist and architect Ross Bateup, to set a new standard in sustainable housing design. Energy Aspect Living’s Zero Carbon Home design is on display in the State Library of SA as part of the Zero Carbon Challenge People’s Choice contest. You can vote for the design either online or at the State Library until February 26.

The Team Energy Aspect Living design is currently second in the People's Choice voting on Facebook. You can vote for Team Energy Aspect Living online via Facebook at http://vote.zch.com.au or casting your ballot at the SA State Library on the corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, Adelaide.

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Donna Bartsch and Danny Pauley

Aspect Living today unveils its innovative design for an affordable, environmentally-friendly home in SA’s pioneering Zero Carbon Challenge.

Woodside-based Energy Aspect Living has recruited a team of creative SA businesses, including iconoclastic cartoonist and architect Ross Bateup, to set a new standard in sustainable housing design. From today, Energy Aspect Living’s Zero Carbon Home design will be on display in the State Library of SA as part of the Zero Carbon Challenge People’s Choice contest. You can vote for the design either online or at the State Library until February 26.*

Backed by Land Management Corporation and the Integrated Design Commission, the Zero Carbon Challenge challenges SA’s building industry to aim for “zero carbon” construction. The goal was to design a $300,000, three-bedroom home that minimises the environmental impact from embodied and operating energy during the 50-year life of the building.

As a specialist in environmentally sustainable house construction, Energy Aspect Living is one of just a handful of finalists to reach this stage of the Zero Carbon Challenge.

Energy Aspect Living director and licensed builder Danny Pauley said the Zero Carbon Challenge was a chance to show publicly what was possible today.  “We believe compromise is not necessary if you want to look after the environment while building a home,” he said.

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Grant Steinberg

Australian entrepreneur Grant Steinberg has called on companies to embrace a broader view of commercialisation to take full advantage of Australia’s innovative capabilities.

“Commercialisation is about more than just turning IP (Intellectual Property) into products,” he said. “It’s about creating markets. Unless companies embrace that broader view of commercialisation, they are limiting their opportunities.”

Mr. Steinberg, who last year sold his company Groundhog Software to listed company DWS Limited (ASX: DWS), first entered the technology industry in the 1990s as one of the founders of Fusion Design.

As well as his business career, which started in 1984 when he established sailboard design firm Newave Marine Products, Mr. Steinberg studied industrial design full-time from 1991-1994 at the University of South Australia. In his final year of study, a project he worked on was selected to represent Australia at the MILIA new media conference in Cannes and also provided the catalyst for establishing Fusion Design with fellow students and co-founders.

Mr. Steinberg said although Australia was better at encouraging commercialisation now than in the 1990s, it was an area that would reward ongoing attention. “Under Steve Jobs, Apple epitomised the rewards of an excellent commercialisation process,” he said.

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