COMMENT: We wish the rest of the built environment was as infinitely regenerating as the moves to cut and curb the National Construction Code seem to be.
At the last federal election, then Opposition Leader Peter Dutton threatened to freeze the periodic improvements to the code for 10 years, inspired no doubt by the South Australian government that ...
Building surveyors and certifiers want a national registration and licensing system to ensure that buildings meet consistent professional standards because “we cannot continue relying on a patchwork of state-based rules and assume that quality will somehow rise to the surface”.
Across Australia, poor construction is putting residents and buildings at ...
PROJECT FILES: Consulting engineers Haskoning in partnership with the government of Tonga, Asian Development Bank , Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific and contractor McConnell Dowell managed a $70 million upgrade for the Kingdom of Tonga completed this year. This is why the project was so important to our Pacific ...
Industry insiders say we need to take another look at the way the battery subsidy scheme has been criticised. Bigger batteries mean more clean energy that can be pumped into the grid when it’s needed.
After the uptake of the cheaper home batteries scheme completely exceeded the cost of the $2.3 billion initially allocated to help households and small ...
First NABERS embodied carbon rating awarded
A warehouse within The YARDS industrial estate in Western Sydney’s Kemps Creek, has become the first official building to be awarded the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS)’s embodied carbon rating. The new tool is designed to measure “hidden emissions” created during construction, ...
Berlin is a city where they do things in a monumental way. This is driven in part by its historic status as a city, in part by Cold War era competition between East and West and in part, it seems, because they just like things to be big and chunky.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed ...
Australia is about to reshape the daily journeys of millions of people. Nationally, metro rezonings, transport oriented development (TOD) programs and new activity centre frameworks are all in progress, and the design work has begun.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Sign ...
Overview:
Fossil fuel downplays climate education; Matrak launches new AI tool; decarbonising wineries
Fossil fuels are turning to funding education to downplay climate change
Analysis by Comms Declare has found that children as young as 9 are being taught about climate change that is shaped by the fossil fuel industry. The advocacy group ...
Our last event of the year was a firecracker. Probably one of the most stimulating and contentious we’ve had for a long time, or ever.
Sparks flew equally from the passions among the presenters and the audience but the discussions were respectful and adhered to the facts, as far as we understand about this material.
Sign up for our free ...
Fossil fuels are turning to funding education to downplay climate change
Analysis by Comms Declare has found that children as young as 9 are being taught about climate change that is shaped by the fossil fuel industry. The advocacy group found that Shell’s Queensland Gas Company has provided more than $10 million to Queensland Museum since 2015 to ...
The Big Debate: Timber is the sustainability solution of our dreams, on Tuesday, kicked off with the passion and nuanced debating points we have come to expect from this important material for the sustainability industry.
We took pre-polls in the weeks leading up to the debate to see how people felt before hearing the arguments, then from the audience ...
How to build a better world podcast: Infrastructure work is going regional – in water, sanitation, roads and bridges – says Kaushik Chakraborty, senior vice president, Asia Pacific & Japan with Bentley Systems in this podcast. It’s part of the big global drift out of cities and into towns and smaller cities that was bolstered by Covid. The trend is ...
COMMENT: We wish the rest of the built environment was as infinitely regenerating as the moves to cut and curb the National Construction Code seem to be.
At the last federal election, then Opposition Leader Peter Dutton threatened to freeze the periodic improvements to the code for 10 years, inspired no doubt by the South Australian government that ...
Building surveyors and certifiers want a national registration and licensing system to ensure that buildings meet consistent professional standards because “we cannot continue relying on a patchwork of state-based rules and assume that quality will somehow rise to the surface”.
Across Australia, poor construction is putting residents and buildings at ...
PROJECT FILES: Consulting engineers Haskoning in partnership with the government of Tonga, Asian Development Bank , Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific and contractor McConnell Dowell managed a $70 million upgrade for the Kingdom of Tonga completed this year. This is why the project was so important to our Pacific ...
Industry insiders say we need to take another look at the way the battery subsidy scheme has been criticised. Bigger batteries mean more clean energy that can be pumped into the grid when it’s needed.
After the uptake of the cheaper home batteries scheme completely exceeded the cost of the $2.3 billion initially allocated to help households and small ...
First NABERS embodied carbon rating awarded
A warehouse within The YARDS industrial estate in Western Sydney’s Kemps Creek, has become the first official building to be awarded the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS)’s embodied carbon rating. The new tool is designed to measure “hidden emissions” created during construction, ...
Berlin is a city where they do things in a monumental way. This is driven in part by its historic status as a city, in part by Cold War era competition between East and West and in part, it seems, because they just like things to be big and chunky.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed ...
Australia is about to reshape the daily journeys of millions of people. Nationally, metro rezonings, transport oriented development (TOD) programs and new activity centre frameworks are all in progress, and the design work has begun.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Sign ...
Overview:
Fossil fuel downplays climate education; Matrak launches new AI tool; decarbonising wineries
Fossil fuels are turning to funding education to downplay climate change
Analysis by Comms Declare has found that children as young as 9 are being taught about climate change that is shaped by the fossil fuel industry. The advocacy group ...
Our last event of the year was a firecracker. Probably one of the most stimulating and contentious we’ve had for a long time, or ever.
Sparks flew equally from the passions among the presenters and the audience but the discussions were respectful and adhered to the facts, as far as we understand about this material.
Sign up for our free ...
Fossil fuels are turning to funding education to downplay climate change
Analysis by Comms Declare has found that children as young as 9 are being taught about climate change that is shaped by the fossil fuel industry. The advocacy group found that Shell’s Queensland Gas Company has provided more than $10 million to Queensland Museum since 2015 to ...
The Big Debate: Timber is the sustainability solution of our dreams, on Tuesday, kicked off with the passion and nuanced debating points we have come to expect from this important material for the sustainability industry.
We took pre-polls in the weeks leading up to the debate to see how people felt before hearing the arguments, then from the audience ...
How to build a better world podcast: Infrastructure work is going regional – in water, sanitation, roads and bridges – says Kaushik Chakraborty, senior vice president, Asia Pacific & Japan with Bentley Systems in this podcast. It’s part of the big global drift out of cities and into towns and smaller cities that was bolstered by Covid. The trend is ...
