At Transform, the big Green Building Council of Australia’s big yearly event in Sydney this week we couldn’t help taking a pulse of what the mood was in relation to the National Construction Code and other green rating tools in the lead up to our Big Debate on the topic on 31 March. In our chats around the industry it’s triggered a lot of shaking heads ...
We asked Davina Rooney how she saw the challenge of the National Construction Code and other green rating tools at this critical point in the evolution of the green building industry. Here’s what she told us.
From our perspective, this is a really important moment. Australia is trying to tackle both a climate challenge and a housing affordability ...
Among our favourite highlights from the Green Building Council of Australia’s TRANSFORM conference this week were some pointed explosions on the issue of return on investment for clean air, for instance. Ridiculous, was the answer. Or that at Davos, people had Thesaurus apps at the ready to make sure they would not offend Donald Trump. Ridiculous ...
Philip Thalis has achieved Australia’s highest architectural honour – the Gold Medal in Architecture in 2024. It keeps him immensely busy and partly that’s because his words have more clout now than ever.
At the briefing on Monday ahead of our newest Big Debate event, Codes Red on 31 March, Thalis showed no signs of pulling his punches.
Sign ...
With a background in small business, Anthony Galimi is used to taking chances, but the biggest risk of his career is when he and his family backers at Novon Lighting took the plunge to invest in new state of the art Swiss robotic equipment and high spec sustainable operations in new premises at Arndell Park in Western Sydney.
The business had already ...
Developers and their contributing professionals and consultants are on notice. While the built environment has largely mastered the art of how to get to net zero – at least in theory and at least at the top end – the searchlights are now increasingly trained on how to protect and enhance nature.
Because it’s the built environment that is largely to ...
Climate investment agitators at Market Forces have again taken aim at oil and gas miner Woodside with a missive on Monday that challenges its narrative that gas can help swing to clean energy in Asia.
The organisation said that despite its proclamations in sustainability reports, Woodside had invested $40 billion in oil and gas exploration since 2020 ...
The time for frightening people, confusing them with jargon, and hedging our messages into incoherence is long over, argues John Pabon in this article. Now, it’s time for something radically different: clarity, trust, and transparency. Because at the end of the day, our audiences don’t expect perfection. They just want a bit of honesty.
In the wide ...
In less than 12 months since we last spoke to global engineering firm AESG, the company has gone from kick starting its Australian operations, headed by Devan Valenti in Sydney and Douglas Sum in Melbourne, to a staff of 11 in Australia and more than 15 across Australia and Southeast Asia.
It’s pushed out the space needed for its Melbourne office, ...
Across large parts of Australia, reactive clay soils are not a fringe condition. They are business as usual.
As droughts lengthen and heavy rainfall intensifies, ground movement becomes more volatile. CSIRO climate modelling points to increasing variability in drought–rainfall cycles across eastern Australia, amplifying shrink–swell behaviour in ...
Fear and loathing is one way to describe the background noise of what might happen to the National Construction Code as it goes through a review process. Another way is excitement.
And it’s all just in time for our 31 March evening debate at Arup’s Sydney offices (5 pm) where the NCC and other rating tools will be put under the spotlight to see if ...
Renewables investment surge but expectations are low
Even before the war in the Middle East broke out investment in renewable energy projects across Australia and New Zealand surged 52 per cent year-on-year, reaching $US21.2 ($29.97 billion) in 2025, up from $US13.5 billion ($19.08 billion) in 2024.
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At Transform, the big Green Building Council of Australia’s big yearly event in Sydney this week we couldn’t help taking a pulse of what the mood was in relation to the National Construction Code and other green rating tools in the lead up to our Big Debate on the topic on 31 March. In our chats around the industry it’s triggered a lot of shaking heads ...
We asked Davina Rooney how she saw the challenge of the National Construction Code and other green rating tools at this critical point in the evolution of the green building industry. Here’s what she told us.
From our perspective, this is a really important moment. Australia is trying to tackle both a climate challenge and a housing affordability ...
Among our favourite highlights from the Green Building Council of Australia’s TRANSFORM conference this week were some pointed explosions on the issue of return on investment for clean air, for instance. Ridiculous, was the answer. Or that at Davos, people had Thesaurus apps at the ready to make sure they would not offend Donald Trump. Ridiculous ...
Philip Thalis has achieved Australia’s highest architectural honour – the Gold Medal in Architecture in 2024. It keeps him immensely busy and partly that’s because his words have more clout now than ever.
At the briefing on Monday ahead of our newest Big Debate event, Codes Red on 31 March, Thalis showed no signs of pulling his punches.
Sign ...
With a background in small business, Anthony Galimi is used to taking chances, but the biggest risk of his career is when he and his family backers at Novon Lighting took the plunge to invest in new state of the art Swiss robotic equipment and high spec sustainable operations in new premises at Arndell Park in Western Sydney.
The business had already ...
Developers and their contributing professionals and consultants are on notice. While the built environment has largely mastered the art of how to get to net zero – at least in theory and at least at the top end – the searchlights are now increasingly trained on how to protect and enhance nature.
Because it’s the built environment that is largely to ...
Climate investment agitators at Market Forces have again taken aim at oil and gas miner Woodside with a missive on Monday that challenges its narrative that gas can help swing to clean energy in Asia.
The organisation said that despite its proclamations in sustainability reports, Woodside had invested $40 billion in oil and gas exploration since 2020 ...
The time for frightening people, confusing them with jargon, and hedging our messages into incoherence is long over, argues John Pabon in this article. Now, it’s time for something radically different: clarity, trust, and transparency. Because at the end of the day, our audiences don’t expect perfection. They just want a bit of honesty.
In the wide ...
In less than 12 months since we last spoke to global engineering firm AESG, the company has gone from kick starting its Australian operations, headed by Devan Valenti in Sydney and Douglas Sum in Melbourne, to a staff of 11 in Australia and more than 15 across Australia and Southeast Asia.
It’s pushed out the space needed for its Melbourne office, ...
Across large parts of Australia, reactive clay soils are not a fringe condition. They are business as usual.
As droughts lengthen and heavy rainfall intensifies, ground movement becomes more volatile. CSIRO climate modelling points to increasing variability in drought–rainfall cycles across eastern Australia, amplifying shrink–swell behaviour in ...
Fear and loathing is one way to describe the background noise of what might happen to the National Construction Code as it goes through a review process. Another way is excitement.
And it’s all just in time for our 31 March evening debate at Arup’s Sydney offices (5 pm) where the NCC and other rating tools will be put under the spotlight to see if ...
Renewables investment surge but expectations are low
Even before the war in the Middle East broke out investment in renewable energy projects across Australia and New Zealand surged 52 per cent year-on-year, reaching $US21.2 ($29.97 billion) in 2025, up from $US13.5 billion ($19.08 billion) in 2024.
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