CARBON TRIGGERS: At beautiful Callan Park in Sydney’s inner west, the New South Wales’ parklands authority wants to demolish nine buildings.
It’s allocated $4.8 million to do so. In a cute turn of PR-spin the proposed demolition is called an “investment”.
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We took a detailed tour around the 64 ...
Each of us needs of a roof over our head, classrooms to learn in and offices or space to work from.
To meet this unprecedented demand for new buildings, globally we’re constructing the equivalent of an entire New York City every month.
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This provides us with vital infrastructure, but also ...
On Friday, I sat in a room in Canberra with developers, super funds, councils, community housing providers and researchers, and asked them the question I have been carrying since the day I was elected: what does affordable housing actually mean? I convened the roundtable because I could not get a straight answer anywhere else and had begun to suspect ...
When we start to chase ideas for our events it feels a bit like butterfly netting, or chasing a whisp of an idea that’s like a genie escaping its bottle. You want to see how it can form into a solid shape.
For some people that genie can look menacing.
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It’s been like that with the next Big Debate ...
Behind the controversial transport oriented developments are the “same old” – no one thinks about waste until it’s too late, writes Frank Klostermann.
The New South Wales government has an idea to help ease the housing crisis. It’s called transport oriented development, or TOD. The idea is to allow denser developments around the existing railway ...
Barrambin’s oldest trees measured time in centuries. The Brisbane Olympics 2032 measure it in years, for an event lasting days. Yet, those trees were destroyed in minutes. Their destruction exposes an uncomfortable question: why does an imagined Olympic legacy take precedence over the centuries-old legacies we inherited?
Spinifex is an opinion ...
TRANSITION RISK: Property companies are about to be hit with reporting requirements on how they are prepared for climate impacts. The demand for help is huge and growing and it’s time for many to stop putting their heads in the sand.
Joshua Martin is a busy man. Partly, it is running Foresight Consulting, a business that has grown from one person to ...
For the vast majority of the history of public works, a tree and a bridge might as well have existed in two different worlds. The bridge had blueprints, a maintenance timetable, a depreciation schedule, and a secured place in the city’s financial plans.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed ...
TRAUMA TOWN PART 5: Dad’s preferred transport was water. The family were bad drivers. His aunt was run over on the pedestrian crossing on Old South Head Road at Rose Bay. Every time we drove past the spot, Dad pointed that out. He was an early sustainable transport leader, or just good at passing anxiety on.
Coming home from school, my father sent the ...
TRANSITION RISK: If you get to the Transition Risk masterclass in Melbourne on 8 September you’ll get a bird’s eye view on one of the most stunning case studies doing the rounds of the energy cognoscenti over the past while.
It’s through Michael Snow, now with Turner & Townsend who while he was based at RMIT university created a transformation ...
New report calls for hospitals to electrify
More than 10 influential health organisations want the federal government to fund feasibility studies to electrify nine pilot hospitals across Australian states and territories.
They’ve supported a new report, All-Electric Healthy Hospitals: a Cost-Benefit Analysis report, they say, finds that electrifying ...
The key takeaway from the latest Sydney Plan is that housing growth will be in the east and jobs growth in the west.
When the plan is read alongside the recent report by the NSW Productivity Commissioner, it is clear that economic feasibility for new apartment buildings is all in the east, where infrastructure exists and sale prices are higher. The ...
CARBON TRIGGERS: At beautiful Callan Park in Sydney’s inner west, the New South Wales’ parklands authority wants to demolish nine buildings.
It’s allocated $4.8 million to do so. In a cute turn of PR-spin the proposed demolition is called an “investment”.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
We took a detailed tour around the 64 ...
Each of us needs of a roof over our head, classrooms to learn in and offices or space to work from.
To meet this unprecedented demand for new buildings, globally we’re constructing the equivalent of an entire New York City every month.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
This provides us with vital infrastructure, but also ...
On Friday, I sat in a room in Canberra with developers, super funds, councils, community housing providers and researchers, and asked them the question I have been carrying since the day I was elected: what does affordable housing actually mean? I convened the roundtable because I could not get a straight answer anywhere else and had begun to suspect ...
When we start to chase ideas for our events it feels a bit like butterfly netting, or chasing a whisp of an idea that’s like a genie escaping its bottle. You want to see how it can form into a solid shape.
For some people that genie can look menacing.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
It’s been like that with the next Big Debate ...
Behind the controversial transport oriented developments are the “same old” – no one thinks about waste until it’s too late, writes Frank Klostermann.
The New South Wales government has an idea to help ease the housing crisis. It’s called transport oriented development, or TOD. The idea is to allow denser developments around the existing railway ...
Barrambin’s oldest trees measured time in centuries. The Brisbane Olympics 2032 measure it in years, for an event lasting days. Yet, those trees were destroyed in minutes. Their destruction exposes an uncomfortable question: why does an imagined Olympic legacy take precedence over the centuries-old legacies we inherited?
Spinifex is an opinion ...
TRANSITION RISK: Property companies are about to be hit with reporting requirements on how they are prepared for climate impacts. The demand for help is huge and growing and it’s time for many to stop putting their heads in the sand.
Joshua Martin is a busy man. Partly, it is running Foresight Consulting, a business that has grown from one person to ...
For the vast majority of the history of public works, a tree and a bridge might as well have existed in two different worlds. The bridge had blueprints, a maintenance timetable, a depreciation schedule, and a secured place in the city’s financial plans.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed ...
TRAUMA TOWN PART 5: Dad’s preferred transport was water. The family were bad drivers. His aunt was run over on the pedestrian crossing on Old South Head Road at Rose Bay. Every time we drove past the spot, Dad pointed that out. He was an early sustainable transport leader, or just good at passing anxiety on.
Coming home from school, my father sent the ...
TRANSITION RISK: If you get to the Transition Risk masterclass in Melbourne on 8 September you’ll get a bird’s eye view on one of the most stunning case studies doing the rounds of the energy cognoscenti over the past while.
It’s through Michael Snow, now with Turner & Townsend who while he was based at RMIT university created a transformation ...
New report calls for hospitals to electrify
More than 10 influential health organisations want the federal government to fund feasibility studies to electrify nine pilot hospitals across Australian states and territories.
They’ve supported a new report, All-Electric Healthy Hospitals: a Cost-Benefit Analysis report, they say, finds that electrifying ...
The key takeaway from the latest Sydney Plan is that housing growth will be in the east and jobs growth in the west.
When the plan is read alongside the recent report by the NSW Productivity Commissioner, it is clear that economic feasibility for new apartment buildings is all in the east, where infrastructure exists and sale prices are higher. The ...
