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Is HVAC just about blowing good air after bad?

that their Haiku fans can move larger amounts of air than typical ceiling fans. “A 1.5m Haiku ceiling fan at max speed of 200RPM can have an airflow max output of 7,673cfm. Typical ceiling fan cfm is 4,000,” notes Mostert. “Haiku...

News | 15/03/2023

British-Australian free-trading kicks off in 2023

day, or a 7.4 per cent upswing between 2017-2018, far outstripping the 1.4 per cent growth for same economy-wide. Battersea Power Station, London, by WilkinsonEyre, photography by Peter Landers. “The creative industries encompass the...

News | 09/03/2023

Would a nature repair market really work? Evidence suggests it’s highly unlikely

current value of global nature credit markets is around A$7 billion a year. If the forecasts of PricewaterhouseCoopers are correct, that could vastly increase to $137 billion in Australia by 2050. Enthusiasm for voluntary nature markets is at an all...

News | 02/03/2023

Mould and damp health costs are about 3 times those of sugary drinks. We need a healthy housing agenda

contributor to the burden of disease. These countries have major policy initiatives focused on this agenda. In Australia, however, we do housing and we do health, but they sit in different portfolios of government and aren’t together in the (policy...

News | 23/02/2023

Japan is paying families 1 million yen to move to the countryside – but it won’t make Tokyo any smaller

Urban sprawl and rural emptying are two sides of the same 21st-century coin, and are global in their extent. In the 19th and 20th centuries, as populations across the world grew exponentially, urbanisation processes didn’t necessarily affect rural...

News | 30/01/2023

The world’s carbon price is a fraction of what we need – because only a fifth of global emissions are priced

At the end of last year, the world’s average price to emit one tonne of greenhouse gases was around US$5.29 (AU$7.77). For pricing to work as we want – to wean us off fossil fuels – it needs to be around $75 by the end of the decade, according to...

News | 27/01/2023

Stamp duty isn’t going anywhere until we can agree on the tax to replace it

don’t buy again within a decade. And it’s unfair. Stamp duty hits most the younger households that move around the most. It leaves alone the older residents who stay put. New modelling by the Centre for Policy Studies at Victoria University...

News | 24/01/2023

WA Government axe decade-long urban sprawl assessment

Government to assess what areas could be cleared and what would be preserved, in a bid to mitigate delays with development applications looking at bushland via a case by case process. The Assessment Committee was allocated $7 million worth of funding...

News | 11/01/2023

Architecture & Design’s Top 12 articles for 2022

Well, we made it. What a whirlwind that was. 12 months and hundreds of stories to tell. While we can’t recount them all, we thought we’d give you guys a little catch up on the biggest news stories across Australia’s built environment in 2022. Well...

News | 22/12/2022

The Mud Room – Where is it and what is it used for?

to hang clothes, shoe storage, benches, and cabinets. This will give you an effective (albeit narrow) mudroom space. Mud room designs and ideas Australia: The top 7 mudroom ideas for modern homes 07. Seating The best mudrooms will have...

News | 14/12/2022

Can electric flying motorbikes change the way we move around our cities?

, the sleek and stylish flying bike can travel at a speed of up to 100km/hr, has a maximum cruising range of 40km, weighs 300kg, can carry a payload of up to 100kg, measures 3.7m L x 2.4m W x 1.5m H, and has a hovering capacity of 40-60 minutes...

News | 06/12/2022

Purple complimentary colours – What goes well with purple?

by rustic brown furniture. 7. Blue and purple Blue is one of the most popular combinations for basically any shade of purple. Given that the two colours are so close on the colour wheel, blue and purple match tonally and often seem to blend...

News | 11/11/2022

AILA 2022 National Awards celebrate 40 exemplary projects

News | 18/10/2022

Hassell-designed The Terraces in Claremont to be Australia’s greenest apartments

-scale residential development anywhere in Australia,” Iris Residential managing director Simon Trevisan said. “Most apartment developments of this size come in at the 7 to 7.5-star level, and certainly we haven’t been able to find anything...

News | 31/10/2022

Some councils still rely on outdated paper maps as supercharged storms make a mockery of flood planning

is they don’t show critical details of the hazard a flood will present. Paper flood maps such as this extract from the 1982 Lower Hawkesbury Floodplain Atlas, do not include critical details such as water depth, velocity, rate of rise and...

News | 27/10/2022

Horseshoe-shaped building the latest addition to South Melbourne skyline

hasn’t changed. We are astutely focused on the luxury owner occupier and downsizer market and have a very specific buyer in mind. By seeking out larger sites in locations like South Melbourne, we can apply this knowledge on a grander scale to projects...

News | 17/10/2022

NSW gov’t to turn Macquarie Park into innovation precinct

existing and future communities.” “The Metro, which has already transformed the way people move along the northwest corridor, will enable the staged delivery of seven new suburbs that can support up to 7,650 homes.” The Greater...

News | 05/10/2022

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Is HVAC just about blowing good air after bad?

British-Australian free-trading kicks off in 2023

Would a nature repair market really work? Evidence suggests it’s highly unlikely

A roof right over our heads

IMAX prepares for its second life as a cultural institution

Home sales decline by nearly half in 12 month period

Mould and damp health costs are about 3 times those of sugary drinks. We need a healthy housing agenda

Japan is paying families 1 million yen to move to the countryside – but it won’t make Tokyo any smaller

The world’s carbon price is a fraction of what we need – because only a fifth of global emissions are priced

Stamp duty isn’t going anywhere until we can agree on the tax to replace it

WA Government axe decade-long urban sprawl assessment

Architecture & Design’s Top 12 articles for 2022

The Mud Room – Where is it and what is it used for?

Can electric flying motorbikes change the way we move around our cities?

Purple complimentary colours – What goes well with purple?

AILA 2022 National Awards celebrate 40 exemplary projects

Hassell-designed The Terraces in Claremont to be Australia’s greenest apartments

Some councils still rely on outdated paper maps as supercharged storms make a mockery of flood planning

Horseshoe-shaped building the latest addition to South Melbourne skyline

NSW gov’t to turn Macquarie Park into innovation precinct