1. The EBD Publication
(Publications/Visioning)

... consuming less – and test innovative products and services that could form the basis of our coming low-carbon economy. The EBD [Ecological Business District] is a design vision from the Victorian Eco-Innovation ...

2. EBD in 2008
(EBD/The EBD Site)

The site known as E-Gate is owned by government railway body VicTrack, and is to become available for development by 2015.   It is the last remaining large-scale vacant land 2km from Melbourne's ...

3. Staged Remediation
(EBD Design Studios/Designing the Sustainable Landscape)

Lowered railway lines improve EBD connections with surrounding suburbs.  This urban design strategy includes bioremediation treatment and staged development of the site. The site sinks ...

4. Reprogramming the EBD Landscape
(EBD Design Studios/Designing the Sustainable Landscape)

What might people understand about process, time & their effect on the world, if the spaces they inhabit are woven around a post-industrial landscape? An innovative reuse of ...

5. Visible Technologies Bike Trail
(EBD Design Studios/Designing the Sustainable Landscape)

Creating physical and aural landmarks along integrated bike & stormwater trails. The design has focused on the Moonee Ponds Creek bike trail from the Racecourse to EBD, aiming ...

6. Extending Westgate Park
(EBD Design Studios/Designing the Sustainable Landscape)

... System, providing the local residents with an area where the multiple needs of industry, recreation, wildlife and climate are acknowledged and integrated.  The project is not sited within the EBD, but ...

7. Gama-dji Gurr: the Seed
(EBD Design Studios/Urban Design)

Gama-dji Gurr: a seed emerging, waking up from sleeping Woiwurrung An urban plan vision for EBD based on integrating water and water technology throughout the site. There are ...

8. Breezeway
(EBD Design Studios/HabItat)

... at EBD with a new functional way of drying clothes. "Breezeway" is a drying cupboard that uses wind cowls to draw in the breeze; sunlight heats up the glasshouse and dries clothes which are hanging in ...

9. Graft
(EBD Design Studios/Architecture)

A symbiotic relationship between pedestrian pathways and the buildings of the EBD. The Graft is a structural intervention that strikes a pedestrian link across EBD. Guided by trajectories ...

10. UteRail
(EBD Design Studios/HabItat)

... urban spaces. The trailer can be manoeuvred by hand in both a horizontal and vertical application and can also be towed behind a bicycle. This gives the Uterail trailer access to all areas within the EBD: ...

11. 2two4
(EBD Design Studios/ZeroCar)

Desirability and adaptability for the EBD ShareCar.  The 2two4 concept vehicle is a proposal for the EBD for a modular urban electric vehicle that can be extended in length and ...

12. Railway Recycling
(EBD Design Studios/ZeroCar)

Compacted waste used as wheels. This design is for a EBD waste management system using trams / trains and intelligent technology. The system uses RFID tags inserted into packaging ...

13. Thrive
(EBD Design Studios/Systems & Services)

... environmental sustainability. Thrive is a system that aims to reconnect the residents of EBD, by enabling a building's community to exchange services with each other. Information regarding the skills, ...

14. Divercity
(EBD Design Studios/Urban Design)

... landscape opportunities across the EBD. The physical positions of the gardens define access to two different types of water on the site - the recycled / fresh water system and the more saline salt water ...

15. EBD Milk
(EBD Design Studios/Systems & Services)

A milk distribution hub for the EBD. This system proposes a local delivery system for milk in the EBD. The system makes the most of the railway by transporting milk in bulk. The milk ...

16. Circular
(EBD Design Studios/Systems & Services)

... food for EBD individuals. The system is designed to reduce the amount of food waste through a combination of IT and product designs. How Circular Works: For convenience, food is ordered online. Goods ...

17. Nature's Strips
(EBD Design Studios/Systems & Services)

Social interaction and co-operation: food localisation in the EBD. Utilising the iconic features of the Australian nature strip, we propose the introduction of a localised food production ...

18. Persona tools - spreading ideas
(VEIL/About VEIL)

...  Judy, 75, water-systems teacher In my day-job, we farm intensively across the EBD, using closed-systems as much as possible.  We have reached the stage where we can produce our own mulch ...

19. Retrofitting the Suburbs: upcoming VEIL Hub
(News/General)

... in particular the EBD Eco-City exploration, which continues inform ongoing studios. Details of the Hub will be finalised soon.  ...

20. Odyssey Water Vehicle
(EBD Design Studios/ZeroCar)

Travel through the EBD and up the Yarra River in a share-car. In a future with rising sea levels, transportation via Melbourne's waterways might be added to the city's transport ...