“Australia can do anything. Absolutely anything.”These were the words that recently headed up Martijn Wilder’s sparse social media feed. It was no more than a repost from industry minister Ed Husic who had appointed him as chair of the National Reconstruction Fund. But you can imagine the sentiment was irresistible to Wilder and that he applies it to ...
Mid-tier commercial buildings are hard to decarbonise. Now the City of Melbourne Net Zero Buildings Plan aims to support the sector to do better, with a toolkit for net zero model lease clauses.Net zero or zero carbon ready leases are one of the enabling mechanisms identified by City of Melbourne in the Retrofit Melbourne Plan. More than 70 per cent of ...
Despite the recent mainstream media angst around the integrity of carbon offsets, the fundamental divers are only getting stronger, according to Carbon Market Institute chief executive John Connor. He tells The Fifth Estate it’s all part of a necessary evolution.When a big business like Telstra or Australia Post says it’s quitting a certification ...
In early October UTS professor Martin Loosemore and senior representatives of John Holland and CIMIC Group’s CPB Contractors met to discuss how they implemented Aboriginal social procurement on the Rozelle Interchange Project in Sydney.Taking part in the meeting were Bradley Schapiro, senior commercial manager at John Holland; Stephen Antonopoulos, ...
Aurecon appoints new CEODesign and engineering firm Aurecon has appointed Louise Adams as its new group chief executive, starting 1 July.Adams has spent almost four years as the firm’s current chief operating officer and will succeed current chief William (Bill) Cox, who has been in the role for six years. Adam spent more than 25 years with the ...
Justine Bell-James, The University of Queensland and James Watson, The University of QueenslandAlmost 200 nations have signed an ambitious agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss but none is on track to meet the crucial goal, our new research reveals.
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If you speak to Andrew Eagles at length, you’d come away thinking it must be a very tough gig to lead an association that with the support of almost an entire built environment industry, wants better, cleaner, greener buildings and cities, when the government of the day says, nope. No dice. “Let the market rip, we don’t want no regulations”.Despite ...
Moderator Rachel Alembakis has some provocative questions up her sleeve for our first forum of the year. She has an impressive financial journalism background, covering some of the most challenging issues in this precarious but highly rewarding sector of the green transition. As a graduate of both the London School of Economics and Boston University, ...
Andrew Eagles, CEO of the New Zealand Green Building Council reports on an industry that wants to do better, wants green buildings and better regulation.This conversation is a breath of fresh air. Listen now!
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How do you convert commercial floor space into housing? A group of professionals put their heads together and came up with some answers.Recently, a group of colleagues and I realised that we were all thinking about the same thing: how to address the housing crisis. Our informal think tank included a sustainability consultant, a developer, a builder, an ...
One of the hero appliances of the electrification agenda is the induction cooktop. They are clean, can operate on 100 per cent renewable energy, and have benefits for health and safety compared to gas cooking. However, they may also have vampire tendencies when it comes to energy use.Induction cooking is gaining traction both in commercial kitchens and ...
NOTE: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains the names of deceased personsOne of the proven ways Australia can help close the gap for Indigenous health is to fix housing. And when housing is in bad repair it turns out tenants are not generally at fault.
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“Australia can do anything. Absolutely anything.”These were the words that recently headed up Martijn Wilder’s sparse social media feed. It was no more than a repost from industry minister Ed Husic who had appointed him as chair of the National Reconstruction Fund. But you can imagine the sentiment was irresistible to Wilder and that he applies it to ...
Mid-tier commercial buildings are hard to decarbonise. Now the City of Melbourne Net Zero Buildings Plan aims to support the sector to do better, with a toolkit for net zero model lease clauses.Net zero or zero carbon ready leases are one of the enabling mechanisms identified by City of Melbourne in the Retrofit Melbourne Plan. More than 70 per cent of ...
Despite the recent mainstream media angst around the integrity of carbon offsets, the fundamental divers are only getting stronger, according to Carbon Market Institute chief executive John Connor. He tells The Fifth Estate it’s all part of a necessary evolution.When a big business like Telstra or Australia Post says it’s quitting a certification ...
In early October UTS professor Martin Loosemore and senior representatives of John Holland and CIMIC Group’s CPB Contractors met to discuss how they implemented Aboriginal social procurement on the Rozelle Interchange Project in Sydney.Taking part in the meeting were Bradley Schapiro, senior commercial manager at John Holland; Stephen Antonopoulos, ...
Aurecon appoints new CEODesign and engineering firm Aurecon has appointed Louise Adams as its new group chief executive, starting 1 July.Adams has spent almost four years as the firm’s current chief operating officer and will succeed current chief William (Bill) Cox, who has been in the role for six years. Adam spent more than 25 years with the ...
Justine Bell-James, The University of Queensland and James Watson, The University of QueenslandAlmost 200 nations have signed an ambitious agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss but none is on track to meet the crucial goal, our new research reveals.
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The agreement, known formally as the ...
If you speak to Andrew Eagles at length, you’d come away thinking it must be a very tough gig to lead an association that with the support of almost an entire built environment industry, wants better, cleaner, greener buildings and cities, when the government of the day says, nope. No dice. “Let the market rip, we don’t want no regulations”.Despite ...
Moderator Rachel Alembakis has some provocative questions up her sleeve for our first forum of the year. She has an impressive financial journalism background, covering some of the most challenging issues in this precarious but highly rewarding sector of the green transition. As a graduate of both the London School of Economics and Boston University, ...
Andrew Eagles, CEO of the New Zealand Green Building Council reports on an industry that wants to do better, wants green buildings and better regulation.This conversation is a breath of fresh air. Listen now!
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As an independent publication, we rely on contributions from readers like ...
How do you convert commercial floor space into housing? A group of professionals put their heads together and came up with some answers.Recently, a group of colleagues and I realised that we were all thinking about the same thing: how to address the housing crisis. Our informal think tank included a sustainability consultant, a developer, a builder, an ...
One of the hero appliances of the electrification agenda is the induction cooktop. They are clean, can operate on 100 per cent renewable energy, and have benefits for health and safety compared to gas cooking. However, they may also have vampire tendencies when it comes to energy use.Induction cooking is gaining traction both in commercial kitchens and ...
NOTE: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains the names of deceased personsOne of the proven ways Australia can help close the gap for Indigenous health is to fix housing. And when housing is in bad repair it turns out tenants are not generally at fault.
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