When the owners of big landmark buildings such as 101 Collins and 111 Bourke streets in Melbourne decide to electrify and retrofit their assets, you know there’s a big motivating factor driving an ambitious agenda.
Call it value.
How’s your NABERS rating? What about Green Star?
The image here is something we snapped in downtown Parramatta ...
Another solution for low carbon concrete – this time it’s common clay
The engineers at RMIT University have found a solution that may be able to tackle the problem of cement – a key ingredient of concrete that is responsible for 8 per cent of global CO2 emissions – by replacing it with common clay.
Traditionally, only high grade kaolin clay has ...
Starting 1 July, the NSW government’s Peak Demand Reduction scheme, which aims to reduce peak electricity demands, will end support for battery installations. Instead, it will be replaced with the federal government’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program – an election promise of $2.3 billion that covers around a 30 per cent discount on the upfront cost of ...
Bamboo has long been viewed in Australia as a backyard plant or garden screen. But globally, bamboo is being engineered into multistorey buildings, structural panels, and composite materials, and is increasingly recognised for its potential in climate resilient infrastructure. It’s not just a sustainable curiosity; it’s a serious structural material ...
SPONSORED: Elumen’s Self-Test range is a significant leap forward for Australia’s built environment, addressing both compliance headaches and environmental targets.
Designed with National Construction Code requirements at the forefront, Self-Test luminaires eliminate dedicated emergency lighting circuits and manual logbooks. Instead, they rely on an ...
Most people see the journey to net zero and scopes 1 and 2 as being mainly about energy choices. But as more buildings fully electrify, there’s another major contributor that’s coming to the foreground – refrigerants.
Refrigerants are found in almost all forms of vapour compression technologies, including airconditioning, heat pumps, cool rooms, ...
Developers and the design team for a housing project at Dubbo, about five hours north west of Sydney, undertook community consultation before even putting pen to paper. It shaved years off the expected timeframe for approval. Here’s how it happened.
Design for climate resilience and social value can deliver density, speed to market and reduced risks ...
The thing about climate catastrophes – floods, fire, famine and the like – is that you can’t argue with them. You can’t politick them out of existence via a language cleanse, you can’t even properly pay for them.If you have assets hit by them, there they will be on the balance sheet, in scary red text – or even a big blank zero.
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According to a new report from FM and The Economist, the Asia Pacific region is quickly becoming a hot spot for climate disasters, and Australian businesses are not facing up to the risk, but neither are their counterparts in the Asia Pacific region.This is despite natural disasters such as flooding in China and droughts in India causing US$65 billion ...
Farmers take the federal government to court over risks from the Narrabri gas pipelineA group of farmers and community members are taking the federal government to court, arguing that Australia’s environment minister has wrongly assessed the impact of Santos’ Narrabri Lateral Pipeline on water and the environment.The government ruled that the pipeline, ...
Overview:
Farmers take the federal government to court over risks from the Narrabri gas pipeline, PCA’s Guide to Office Building Quality needs an update, Yerrabingin appointed to renew Redfern neighbourhood park, TOMRA launches packaging buyback machine
Farmers take the federal government to court over risks from the Narrabri gas pipeline4 June: ...
This World Environment Day, we are grappling with evolving systems that can destroy or transform our relationship with the natural world. Today, as we stand in the midst of climate change, biodiversity collapse, sanctioned fossil fuel extraction and democratic disillusionment, many of us could sink into despair. Spinifex is an opinion column. If you ...
When the owners of big landmark buildings such as 101 Collins and 111 Bourke streets in Melbourne decide to electrify and retrofit their assets, you know there’s a big motivating factor driving an ambitious agenda.
Call it value.
How’s your NABERS rating? What about Green Star?
The image here is something we snapped in downtown Parramatta ...
Another solution for low carbon concrete – this time it’s common clay
The engineers at RMIT University have found a solution that may be able to tackle the problem of cement – a key ingredient of concrete that is responsible for 8 per cent of global CO2 emissions – by replacing it with common clay.
Traditionally, only high grade kaolin clay has ...
Starting 1 July, the NSW government’s Peak Demand Reduction scheme, which aims to reduce peak electricity demands, will end support for battery installations. Instead, it will be replaced with the federal government’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program – an election promise of $2.3 billion that covers around a 30 per cent discount on the upfront cost of ...
Bamboo has long been viewed in Australia as a backyard plant or garden screen. But globally, bamboo is being engineered into multistorey buildings, structural panels, and composite materials, and is increasingly recognised for its potential in climate resilient infrastructure. It’s not just a sustainable curiosity; it’s a serious structural material ...
SPONSORED: Elumen’s Self-Test range is a significant leap forward for Australia’s built environment, addressing both compliance headaches and environmental targets.
Designed with National Construction Code requirements at the forefront, Self-Test luminaires eliminate dedicated emergency lighting circuits and manual logbooks. Instead, they rely on an ...
Most people see the journey to net zero and scopes 1 and 2 as being mainly about energy choices. But as more buildings fully electrify, there’s another major contributor that’s coming to the foreground – refrigerants.
Refrigerants are found in almost all forms of vapour compression technologies, including airconditioning, heat pumps, cool rooms, ...
Developers and the design team for a housing project at Dubbo, about five hours north west of Sydney, undertook community consultation before even putting pen to paper. It shaved years off the expected timeframe for approval. Here’s how it happened.
Design for climate resilience and social value can deliver density, speed to market and reduced risks ...
The thing about climate catastrophes – floods, fire, famine and the like – is that you can’t argue with them. You can’t politick them out of existence via a language cleanse, you can’t even properly pay for them.If you have assets hit by them, there they will be on the balance sheet, in scary red text – or even a big blank zero.
Sign up for our ...
According to a new report from FM and The Economist, the Asia Pacific region is quickly becoming a hot spot for climate disasters, and Australian businesses are not facing up to the risk, but neither are their counterparts in the Asia Pacific region.This is despite natural disasters such as flooding in China and droughts in India causing US$65 billion ...
Farmers take the federal government to court over risks from the Narrabri gas pipelineA group of farmers and community members are taking the federal government to court, arguing that Australia’s environment minister has wrongly assessed the impact of Santos’ Narrabri Lateral Pipeline on water and the environment.The government ruled that the pipeline, ...
Overview:
Farmers take the federal government to court over risks from the Narrabri gas pipeline, PCA’s Guide to Office Building Quality needs an update, Yerrabingin appointed to renew Redfern neighbourhood park, TOMRA launches packaging buyback machine
Farmers take the federal government to court over risks from the Narrabri gas pipeline4 June: ...
This World Environment Day, we are grappling with evolving systems that can destroy or transform our relationship with the natural world. Today, as we stand in the midst of climate change, biodiversity collapse, sanctioned fossil fuel extraction and democratic disillusionment, many of us could sink into despair. Spinifex is an opinion column. If you ...
