Conference venues
Thursday morning
TAFE SA 120 Currie Street, Adelaide.
Thursday afternoon and all day Friday
U City, 43 Franklin Street, Adelaide
U City is an easy 10-minute walk from TAFE SA, however a coach will be available if needed. A wheelchair accessible taxi will be arranged if required.
TAFE SA 120 Currie Street
Lecture Theatre B.127
Enter from Morphett Street (Light Square) or Currie Street
TAFE SA is South Australia’s largest vocational education and training provider. They deliver job-focused training across a range of industries from entry-level certificates to bachelor degrees, at locations across the state.
U City 43 Franklin Street
First floor Uniting Communities Building
U City’s Function Centre is one of Adelaide’s newest event spaces and is the new home of high quality functions, conferences and catering in the heart of the city.
U City not only supports the ongoing work of Uniting Communities within South Australia, it also contributes to their ongoing commitment of being a certified carbon neutral organisation. It helps event organisers to reduce their own carbon emissions by using a low carbon facility that is 6 star Green Star rated.
How does the Function Centre reduce emissions?
Here are some of the ways the function centre is doing its part to reduce carbon emissions:
- U City is recognised as one of Australia’s ‘greenest’ buildings by design to date. It is predicted to use 45 per cent less energy and 30 per cent less water than a comparable new and is partly powered by solar panels on our roof.
- The award-winning caterers not only use local food that is sustainably sourced, but they donate left over food to organisations such as the Hutt St Centre.
- By sourcing all of the produce locally they are able to support small batch suppliers within South Australia and limit the amount of food miles travelled.
- All waste is disposed of responsibly – food waste and coffee grinds are disposed of in a separate “organics” bin which goes to Jeffries composting facility.
- Milk cartons and non-refundable bottles are disposed of in the dry waste and all refundable bottles and cans are donated to Scouts SA.
- All dry waste at U City goes to a resource recovery facility and is turned into an alternative fuel source. This is used by Adelaide Brighton Cement, directly replacing fossil fuels.
- They don’t use any disposable cutlery or crockery and, to minimise the use of water, they limit the use of linen within the function centre
- Toilets are low water consumption and all hand towels are composted
All of these initiatives play their part in helping the environment and reducing U City’s carbon footprint.