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Dr Martin Anda announced recently a major new partnership between the Murdoch University Environmental Technology Centre and Australian Outback Lodges, a Queensland based company who design and construct environmentally sensitive accommodation options for tourism operators. Australian Outback Lodges was formed in 2003 and prides itself on combining state-of-the-art eco-design with cutting edge business practices. Company Director Tony Balch has over 30 years of experience in the hotel industry and has been a leading light in the sustainable tourism area helping to establish the eco-tourism course at Edith Cowan University in the 80s and Chairing the WA Government’s Tourism Sector Task Force in 1990.

The ETC will be home to a display version of the Eco Lodge. The Eco Lodge will feature a solar array and wind turbine supplied by Birkenhead Batteries and Solar Power based in NSW. Local landscape architect Kevin Moran is lending his skills to the project by designing an eco-friendly garden to blend the lodge into the existing permaculture garden.

The ETC is proud to be working with these two outstanding Australian companies at the forefront of sustainable development.

Look out for further up-dates and open-day announcements. Pictured below the ETC Construction team led by Site Manager Mick Sherriff in the early stages of construction.

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» visit the Australian Outback Lodges website
» visit the Birkenhead Batteries and Solar Power website