Elevators can save energy, carbon and time. Just ask Adam Daly of Kone.
The world of elevators is a sensitive one. These small vertical transportation devices can be alarming to anyone who’s claustrophobic – or worse, has been trapped in one. And then there’s a story of one new elevator system in Sydney that was so fast it made people ill and had to ...
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NSW government commits $557 million to encourage household sustainability
The New South Wales government has chipped in $557 million to incentivise homeowners to install renewable energy infrastructure through a Home Energy Saver program. Available now, households with a combined taxable income of up to $210,000 are eligible for interest-free loans of ...
Jago Dodson from RMIT has been once again batting off media inquiries about the famed VAMPIRE Index he and fellow academics at Griffith University cobbled up nearly two decades ago.
The index was about how fuel prices and far flung housing in the burbs combined to deprive people of a ridiculous amount of their hard earned cash.
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The Fifth Estate dropped into Futurebuild Australia in Sydney last week to have a chat with some of the more sustainable exhibitors on show for our newfound plaything of video interviews. See below for some of the clips. We also checked in with the panel discussion on passive house, to make sure we caught any new insights after our own Passive House ...
The Australian Capital Territory Architecture Awards this year landed on community co-design, environmental responsibility, and adaptive reuse as key for winning entrants.
The awards by the Australian Institute of Architects consist of a panel of five industry experts and architects selected 25 winners and special honours recipients that revealed a ...
The future of architecture is doing more with less, as winners of Western Australia’s 2026 Architecture Awards find innovative solutions to address affordability concerns and industry constraints.
A peer-reviewed jury assembled by the Australian Institute of Architects selected 35 projects likely to pioneer the future of the built environment through ...
There are two reasons that Robyn Hyslop won the Jeff Robinson Environmental Award from the Property Council of Australia’s Victorian division.
One is the work she does in her job to progress sustainability and the carbon transition at major real estate agency Colliers in Melbourne last week. The other is the extra-curricular work she does for the same ...
Victorian Opposition’s new proposal threatens 26,000 jobs and the future of clean energy
Ahead of the election in Victoria later this year the opposition is shaping up to a hostile environmental agenda in line with other conservative political parties around the nation – and globally, to be clear. The latest missive from an election almost certain to ...
Thanks to the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as a passageway for oil, renewables have gained recognition as safer, less volatile alternatives to fossil fuels. They look poised to usher in a green transition.
Before the Middle East conflict, around a fifth of the world’s oil and gas flowed through the Strait of ...
Australia’s top 30 superannuation funds have invested in just 3.9 per cent of the renewable energy infrastructure needed to meet Australia’s 2030 climate targets, a new report has found.
According to Market Forces, which analysed data from RenewMap and Green Street Infrastructure for the report, found that the top 30 super funds only directly ...
Developers want projects to go as fast as possible, but early contractor involvement in the initial design would offset further construction delays down the line. This is part 2 of a short series on this topic.
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PROJECT FILES: Healthcare projects are often evaluated through measures of clinical performance, operational efficiency and technical complexity. Increasingly, however, major public health projects are also being asked to contribute to broader social, environmental and civic outcomes.
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead represents this shift. ...
Elevators can save energy, carbon and time. Just ask Adam Daly of Kone.
The world of elevators is a sensitive one. These small vertical transportation devices can be alarming to anyone who’s claustrophobic – or worse, has been trapped in one. And then there’s a story of one new elevator system in Sydney that was so fast it made people ill and had to ...
NSW government commits $557 million to encourage household sustainability
The New South Wales government has chipped in $557 million to incentivise homeowners to install renewable energy infrastructure through a Home Energy Saver program. Available now, households with a combined taxable income of up to $210,000 are eligible for interest-free loans of ...
Jago Dodson from RMIT has been once again batting off media inquiries about the famed VAMPIRE Index he and fellow academics at Griffith University cobbled up nearly two decades ago.
The index was about how fuel prices and far flung housing in the burbs combined to deprive people of a ridiculous amount of their hard earned cash.
Sign up for ...
The Fifth Estate dropped into Futurebuild Australia in Sydney last week to have a chat with some of the more sustainable exhibitors on show for our newfound plaything of video interviews. See below for some of the clips. We also checked in with the panel discussion on passive house, to make sure we caught any new insights after our own Passive House ...
The Australian Capital Territory Architecture Awards this year landed on community co-design, environmental responsibility, and adaptive reuse as key for winning entrants.
The awards by the Australian Institute of Architects consist of a panel of five industry experts and architects selected 25 winners and special honours recipients that revealed a ...
The future of architecture is doing more with less, as winners of Western Australia’s 2026 Architecture Awards find innovative solutions to address affordability concerns and industry constraints.
A peer-reviewed jury assembled by the Australian Institute of Architects selected 35 projects likely to pioneer the future of the built environment through ...
There are two reasons that Robyn Hyslop won the Jeff Robinson Environmental Award from the Property Council of Australia’s Victorian division.
One is the work she does in her job to progress sustainability and the carbon transition at major real estate agency Colliers in Melbourne last week. The other is the extra-curricular work she does for the same ...
Victorian Opposition’s new proposal threatens 26,000 jobs and the future of clean energy
Ahead of the election in Victoria later this year the opposition is shaping up to a hostile environmental agenda in line with other conservative political parties around the nation – and globally, to be clear. The latest missive from an election almost certain to ...
Thanks to the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as a passageway for oil, renewables have gained recognition as safer, less volatile alternatives to fossil fuels. They look poised to usher in a green transition.
Before the Middle East conflict, around a fifth of the world’s oil and gas flowed through the Strait of ...
Australia’s top 30 superannuation funds have invested in just 3.9 per cent of the renewable energy infrastructure needed to meet Australia’s 2030 climate targets, a new report has found.
According to Market Forces, which analysed data from RenewMap and Green Street Infrastructure for the report, found that the top 30 super funds only directly ...
Developers want projects to go as fast as possible, but early contractor involvement in the initial design would offset further construction delays down the line. This is part 2 of a short series on this topic.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Sign up for our free ...
PROJECT FILES: Healthcare projects are often evaluated through measures of clinical performance, operational efficiency and technical complexity. Increasingly, however, major public health projects are also being asked to contribute to broader social, environmental and civic outcomes.
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead represents this shift. ...