Brookfield is selling Australian-based construction firm Multiplex to Japan’s “big five” construction giant, Obayashi Corporation, for $US650 ($A924) million. We looked into its sustainability claims, and if these translate to its Australian practices, the company might be seen as a pacesetter.
According to recent announcements, the Japanese Obayashi ...
Female engineers underutilised and underpaid
A new report from Engineers Australia and WSP finds that 13,000 more women could be in direct engineering roles if employed at the same rate as men. Additionally, Workplace Gender Equality Agency data reveals the gender pay gap persists in the professional scientific and technical services industry. It ...
TerraCycle has been in Australia for 12 years and has notched up 2500 public drop off locations for the products it recycles. Now it’s aiming at the corporate sector for the next tranche of its growth as regulations push the sector to better behaviour.
Industries are showing growing interest in sustainable operations, and TerraCycle, which specialises ...
For years, builders and developers have treated “sustainable” homes as someone else’s problem. Solar panels, batteries, double-glazed windows, correct insulation, good ventilation and better materials have been thought to be too expensive, too niche and too unprofitable to include in new homes, so they were left out.
The result is predictable. ...
Australia’s housing crisis is not the result of a single policy failure. It is the product of decades of underinvestment, short-term thinking and a persistent misunderstanding of what housing represents in a modern economy.
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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.
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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 ...
Brookfield is selling Australian-based construction firm Multiplex to Japan’s “big five” construction giant, Obayashi Corporation, for $US650 ($A924) million. We looked into its sustainability claims, and if these translate to its Australian practices, the company might be seen as a pacesetter.
According to recent announcements, the Japanese Obayashi ...
Female engineers underutilised and underpaid
A new report from Engineers Australia and WSP finds that 13,000 more women could be in direct engineering roles if employed at the same rate as men. Additionally, Workplace Gender Equality Agency data reveals the gender pay gap persists in the professional scientific and technical services industry. It ...
TerraCycle has been in Australia for 12 years and has notched up 2500 public drop off locations for the products it recycles. Now it’s aiming at the corporate sector for the next tranche of its growth as regulations push the sector to better behaviour.
Industries are showing growing interest in sustainable operations, and TerraCycle, which specialises ...
For years, builders and developers have treated “sustainable” homes as someone else’s problem. Solar panels, batteries, double-glazed windows, correct insulation, good ventilation and better materials have been thought to be too expensive, too niche and too unprofitable to include in new homes, so they were left out.
The result is predictable. ...
Australia’s housing crisis is not the result of a single policy failure. It is the product of decades of underinvestment, short-term thinking and a persistent misunderstanding of what housing represents in a modern economy.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
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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 ...
