Queensland is taking an axe to windfarms and looks to more cuts; home batteries’ breakthrough
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This story was off the charts in terms of hits. Queensland Premier David Crisafulli, who won the election at the end of 2024 said he wanted the industry to keep burning coal. The story broke in May this ...
For our third Emerald Green awards The Fifth Estate has chosen to honour five people who were key to our hugely successful seven part events program this year and who cast their influence well beyond to the broader industry.
These awards are an informal program that we do completely in house, from a personal and impressionistic ...
A new draft plan for Greater Sydney, The Sydney Plan (the plan), has been released for comment. Having led the preparation of the current plan, A Metropolis of Three Cities and the previous plan, A Plan for Growing Sydney, I was naturally keen to see the outcome. My initial reflections focus on:
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to ...
Anthony Burke ( AB ): The usual architect’s origin story is of always wanting to be an architect. But you wanted to be a photographer…why? What drove you towards architecture?
Ed Lippmann ( EL ) My father had a keen interest in architecture and was a big influence on me. I remember the construction of our house at Rose Bay when I was a boy. I used ...
There’s a reason we’re focused on the built environment/property/real estate – whatever you want to call the buildings we live, work, and play in.
This sector rules the roost in our lives. Where we live and spend our time has a vast impact on our quality of life, much of our economic prospects, plus physical and mental health outcomes.
Sign ...
Queensland resource recovery group BMI Group has snapped up the assets of the failed Rino Recycling business, in which the Clean Energy Finance Corporation invested about $70 million and ended up with an exposure of about $100 million of taxpayer funds.
Rino, based at Eagle Farm Road at Pinkenba, about 10 kilometres east of Brisbane, collapsed after ...
COMMENT: We wish the rest of the built environment was as infinitely regenerating as the moves to cut and curb the National Construction Code seem to be.
At the last federal election, then Opposition Leader Peter Dutton threatened to freeze the periodic improvements to the code for 10 years, inspired no doubt by the South Australian government that ...
Building surveyors and certifiers want a national registration and licensing system to ensure that buildings meet consistent professional standards because “we cannot continue relying on a patchwork of state-based rules and assume that quality will somehow rise to the surface”.
Across Australia, poor construction is putting residents and buildings at ...
PROJECT FILES: Consulting engineers Haskoning in partnership with the government of Tonga, Asian Development Bank , Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific and contractor McConnell Dowell managed a $70 million upgrade for the Kingdom of Tonga completed this year. This is why the project was so important to our Pacific ...
Industry insiders say we need to take another look at the way the battery subsidy scheme has been criticised. Bigger batteries mean more clean energy that can be pumped into the grid when it’s needed.
After the uptake of the cheaper home batteries scheme completely exceeded the cost of the $2.3 billion initially allocated to help households and small ...
First NABERS embodied carbon rating awarded
A warehouse within The YARDS industrial estate in Western Sydney’s Kemps Creek, has become the first official building to be awarded the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS)’s embodied carbon rating. The new tool is designed to measure “hidden emissions” created during construction, ...
Berlin is a city where they do things in a monumental way. This is driven in part by its historic status as a city, in part by Cold War era competition between East and West and in part, it seems, because they just like things to be big and chunky.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed ...
Queensland is taking an axe to windfarms and looks to more cuts; home batteries’ breakthrough
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This story was off the charts in terms of hits. Queensland Premier David Crisafulli, who won the election at the end of 2024 said he wanted the industry to keep burning coal. The story broke in May this ...
For our third Emerald Green awards The Fifth Estate has chosen to honour five people who were key to our hugely successful seven part events program this year and who cast their influence well beyond to the broader industry.
These awards are an informal program that we do completely in house, from a personal and impressionistic ...
A new draft plan for Greater Sydney, The Sydney Plan (the plan), has been released for comment. Having led the preparation of the current plan, A Metropolis of Three Cities and the previous plan, A Plan for Growing Sydney, I was naturally keen to see the outcome. My initial reflections focus on:
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to ...
Anthony Burke ( AB ): The usual architect’s origin story is of always wanting to be an architect. But you wanted to be a photographer…why? What drove you towards architecture?
Ed Lippmann ( EL ) My father had a keen interest in architecture and was a big influence on me. I remember the construction of our house at Rose Bay when I was a boy. I used ...
There’s a reason we’re focused on the built environment/property/real estate – whatever you want to call the buildings we live, work, and play in.
This sector rules the roost in our lives. Where we live and spend our time has a vast impact on our quality of life, much of our economic prospects, plus physical and mental health outcomes.
Sign ...
Queensland resource recovery group BMI Group has snapped up the assets of the failed Rino Recycling business, in which the Clean Energy Finance Corporation invested about $70 million and ended up with an exposure of about $100 million of taxpayer funds.
Rino, based at Eagle Farm Road at Pinkenba, about 10 kilometres east of Brisbane, collapsed after ...
COMMENT: We wish the rest of the built environment was as infinitely regenerating as the moves to cut and curb the National Construction Code seem to be.
At the last federal election, then Opposition Leader Peter Dutton threatened to freeze the periodic improvements to the code for 10 years, inspired no doubt by the South Australian government that ...
Building surveyors and certifiers want a national registration and licensing system to ensure that buildings meet consistent professional standards because “we cannot continue relying on a patchwork of state-based rules and assume that quality will somehow rise to the surface”.
Across Australia, poor construction is putting residents and buildings at ...
PROJECT FILES: Consulting engineers Haskoning in partnership with the government of Tonga, Asian Development Bank , Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific and contractor McConnell Dowell managed a $70 million upgrade for the Kingdom of Tonga completed this year. This is why the project was so important to our Pacific ...
Industry insiders say we need to take another look at the way the battery subsidy scheme has been criticised. Bigger batteries mean more clean energy that can be pumped into the grid when it’s needed.
After the uptake of the cheaper home batteries scheme completely exceeded the cost of the $2.3 billion initially allocated to help households and small ...
First NABERS embodied carbon rating awarded
A warehouse within The YARDS industrial estate in Western Sydney’s Kemps Creek, has become the first official building to be awarded the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS)’s embodied carbon rating. The new tool is designed to measure “hidden emissions” created during construction, ...
Berlin is a city where they do things in a monumental way. This is driven in part by its historic status as a city, in part by Cold War era competition between East and West and in part, it seems, because they just like things to be big and chunky.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed ...
