What is the Jobs and Skills Package about?

• Supporting workplace retention and addressing emergent skills shortages resulting from the natural disasters
• Minimising job losses
• Rebuilding communities

The natural disasters in Queensland may reduce the capacity of many businesses to retain employees. In the longer term, many industries may find it difficult to rebuild without assistance. It is also important to implement jobs and skill preservation strategies to help industry and businesses maintain their workforce.

Up to $500,000 in federal government grants are available to retrofit a commercial office building, hotel or shopping centre to become more energy efficient.

To be eligible for funding an applicant must able to demonstrate the level of greenhouse gas emissions prior to commencement of the project and the projected savings in greenhouse gas emissions likely to result from the project.

Examples of eligible Green Building Fund projects may include:

• upgrades to heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems
• changes to the building fabric, such as external glazing and shading
• building management and control systems to enable better monitoring of energy use
• application of co-generation systems or renewable energy.

This information was derived from the Government Grant Guru website. For more detail visit AusIndustry Green Building Fund.