Bathhouse with circular principals wins BDAA awards
The description for the winner of the top award in the 2026 Building Designers Association of Australia National Design Awards is worth sharing, at length, and for some of us at least, guaranteed to go straight to the top of the bucket list.
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The Green Building Council of Australia has called for the property industry to step up its transition to all-electric buildings as new research from the US proves how detrimental it is in commercial kitchens.
The call also comes at a time when the Victorian opposition, expected to win government on 28 November, says it will remove the ban on gas in ...
TRAUMA TOWN PART 10: Councils and corruption, it rhymes if you say it quickly 3 times. Well, it doesn’t, but the point is, if you make something complex, you can see what you want in it.
Councils are good at that.
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Since I have been in planning, some form of ICAC illuminated corruption involving ...
Australia is currently experiencing a data centre mania in which tech companies and developers feverishly rush to build hyperscale data centres across the country. Like mushrooms after rain, these expansive, anonymous buildings are sprouting up across city suburbs as well as regional centres with a pipeline of much greater scale in process. One ...
It feels like the right time to spare a thought for our politicians. We’re particularly focused on local government at the moment. They’re often front and centre of dealing with the most immediate impact of climate change disasters, our first responders in many ways. And yet so badly funded.
This was particularly clear in the interview we did with ...
MARKET PULSE: Stiebel Eltron’s latest hire marks a new phase of expansion for the company. It comes at a time when business is looking up for high performance buildings and heat recovery systems that offer solutions to a heating humid climate and can solve the mould problems that have plagued some parts of housing.
According to German based all ...
A joint venture between developer Hamton and superannuation fund Hostplus has been appointed by Development Victoria to take on the urban renewal mixed use precinct slated for Arden Central, in North Melbourne, which will include a living lab.
The government-owned $7 billion project is expected to deliver more than 5400 homes for 10,000 residents, ...
By framing coal and gas as essential to jobs, prosperity and national identity, the industry continues to resist the transition to renewable energy.
Australia is one of the world’s largest exporters of coal and gas and has among the world’s highest per capita carbon emissions. As a leading “petrostate”, it is perhaps unsurprising that the fossil fuel ...
By: Willow Aliento, editor, AIRAH
EVENT PROMOTION: Recent media outputs from the building sector continue to correlate the issue of labour shortages with housing supply and affordability. This is not a false equivalence, however, the pachyderm in this particular living room is the availability of a massive labour force that is still largely sidelined ...
If infrastructure is critical to humanity living on this planet, local governments everywhere are on the front line of protecting it and making sure it’s resilient to climate impacts. Costs can be huge. But in a capital constrained world, there are alternatives. The Fifth Estate spoke to Bentley Systems’ Chris Bradshaw in the closing hours of the Year ...
It was clear that among the competitors for Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure conference and awards in Singapore early this month, integration of AI had landed and taken root.
Companies that appealed to the juries for this celebration of digital design in major infrastructure projects around the globe needed to demonstrate measurable results in ...
Everywhere we look, at the moment, we see the word resilience. Yes, it just might have something to do with the event we’re launching this week – Nature First & Resilient Cities on 24 November.
But it’s also clearly front and centre for a growing number of people whose jobs it is to think about our future.
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Bathhouse with circular principals wins BDAA awards
The description for the winner of the top award in the 2026 Building Designers Association of Australia National Design Awards is worth sharing, at length, and for some of us at least, guaranteed to go straight to the top of the bucket list.
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The Green Building Council of Australia has called for the property industry to step up its transition to all-electric buildings as new research from the US proves how detrimental it is in commercial kitchens.
The call also comes at a time when the Victorian opposition, expected to win government on 28 November, says it will remove the ban on gas in ...
TRAUMA TOWN PART 10: Councils and corruption, it rhymes if you say it quickly 3 times. Well, it doesn’t, but the point is, if you make something complex, you can see what you want in it.
Councils are good at that.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
Since I have been in planning, some form of ICAC illuminated corruption involving ...
Australia is currently experiencing a data centre mania in which tech companies and developers feverishly rush to build hyperscale data centres across the country. Like mushrooms after rain, these expansive, anonymous buildings are sprouting up across city suburbs as well as regional centres with a pipeline of much greater scale in process. One ...
It feels like the right time to spare a thought for our politicians. We’re particularly focused on local government at the moment. They’re often front and centre of dealing with the most immediate impact of climate change disasters, our first responders in many ways. And yet so badly funded.
This was particularly clear in the interview we did with ...
MARKET PULSE: Stiebel Eltron’s latest hire marks a new phase of expansion for the company. It comes at a time when business is looking up for high performance buildings and heat recovery systems that offer solutions to a heating humid climate and can solve the mould problems that have plagued some parts of housing.
According to German based all ...
A joint venture between developer Hamton and superannuation fund Hostplus has been appointed by Development Victoria to take on the urban renewal mixed use precinct slated for Arden Central, in North Melbourne, which will include a living lab.
The government-owned $7 billion project is expected to deliver more than 5400 homes for 10,000 residents, ...
By framing coal and gas as essential to jobs, prosperity and national identity, the industry continues to resist the transition to renewable energy.
Australia is one of the world’s largest exporters of coal and gas and has among the world’s highest per capita carbon emissions. As a leading “petrostate”, it is perhaps unsurprising that the fossil fuel ...
By: Willow Aliento, editor, AIRAH
EVENT PROMOTION: Recent media outputs from the building sector continue to correlate the issue of labour shortages with housing supply and affordability. This is not a false equivalence, however, the pachyderm in this particular living room is the availability of a massive labour force that is still largely sidelined ...
If infrastructure is critical to humanity living on this planet, local governments everywhere are on the front line of protecting it and making sure it’s resilient to climate impacts. Costs can be huge. But in a capital constrained world, there are alternatives. The Fifth Estate spoke to Bentley Systems’ Chris Bradshaw in the closing hours of the Year ...
It was clear that among the competitors for Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure conference and awards in Singapore early this month, integration of AI had landed and taken root.
Companies that appealed to the juries for this celebration of digital design in major infrastructure projects around the globe needed to demonstrate measurable results in ...
Everywhere we look, at the moment, we see the word resilience. Yes, it just might have something to do with the event we’re launching this week – Nature First & Resilient Cities on 24 November.
But it’s also clearly front and centre for a growing number of people whose jobs it is to think about our future.
Sign up for our free ...
