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Developers and designers looking for supplementary ways to net zero targets should focus on an overlooked source of emissions right in front of them: rework.
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Residential construction companies in Australia have been toppling like dominoes, and this has left many depositors in a very difficult financial position.
Build-to-rent (BTR) has gained significant momentum in Australia in recent months. Driven largely by overseas investment, proof of concept now exists across several Australian states, with a range of service models demonstrating commercial viability.
At the end of last week’s ToT on the history of sustainability we arrived at our current dilemma: finding the ‘Goldilocks’ density.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has to be the most malevolent of institutions.
The environmentally responsible home morphed over the last 80 years, from passive solar to alternatives to ‘passivhaus’ to inner-urban apartments. The changing focus, and names, is the story of sustainability itself.
Beginning her career as an interior designer more than 10 years ago, Associate Jessica Kazenwadel (pictured) brings a varied and collaborative interest to the creative but logistical nature of the profession.
It’s the year 2008, and some members of the International Association of Lighting Designers are gathered in a boardroom in North Sydney, myself included. My colleagues Mary-Anne Kyriakou (who would later be Vivid’s inaugural festival director) and Michael Day are sharing a vision of what’s almost unthinkable at the time.
For many building facility managers and homeowners across Australia’s East Coast, soaring summer humidity has left a dangerous legacy — mould. Respiratory infections and irritation to the eyes and skin are just some of a long list of potentially serious side effects from exposure to mould.
In recent weeks, Tone on Tuesday has been looking at suburbia: ways to make it more sustainable, how to develop good quality social housing, and addressing homelessness. This week the iceberg issue: How to increase housing density in our suburbs.
The NSW government has released a map of about 100 well-designed housing schemes, collected together by the Government Architect (industrious advocates for ‘design excellence’). Launched in a media release this month (see top of image) it extolled the virtue of built examples in ‘your backyard’.
In addition to the $9.3bn in last week’s federal budget for social housing (discussed in ToT 208 last week), there’s another $1bn for homelessness. Good intentions. Presuming they mean to alleviate, not increase, it. But the idea is fraught.
