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Building Circularity ebook
We’re excited to offer you our ebook on Building Circularity – why our Renaissance needs to be a perfect circle. The symposium late last year was a fantastic star-studded event. Leading architects from Australia, the UK and New Zealand joined materials experts and speakers from the private and public sector to shed light on how […]
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Williams on Covid’s great “levelling out” between subs and burbs
Can the impact and premium of the agglomerated knowledge economy of a CBD really be replicated in the disaggregated city? Follow the money. While we can all imagine better ways to understand what’s going on in our towns and cities, you won’t go far wrong if you know what’s going on in the economy and […]
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Queensland schools, ecology, modern slavery, diversity & FOMO for the office
MARKET PULSE: Ecosave has been going great guns since we interviewed them a few years ago. Staff is now up to around 50 people and there’s plenty of work around, enough to hire more people on the back of a healthy uptick in staff last year. Even while most people were working from home. Preferences […]
CITIES & ENVIRONMENT
Richard Florida on the return of the city, “Roaring 2020s” style
American urbanist Richard Florida expects the Covid-recovering 2020s to mimic the “Roaring 20s” that marked the recovery from the Spanish Flu.
BUILDINGS & ENERGY
Building designers compete for national dominance
Building designers, it seems, are hot property for associations wanting to represent them.
Time to deal with embodied carbon – WGBC
The World Green Building Council has called for net zero emission by 2050 in the Asia Pacific region along with a primer on getting there. The Asia Pacific Embodied Carbon Primer highlights what embodied carbon is, where it occurs throughout a building and infrastructure asset’s lifecycle, and how tackling it can catalyse APAC to rebuild […]
On what we learnt at Flick the Switch – that we want more net zero
News from the front desk, issue 492: Here at The Fifth Estate our heads are spinning after what was an action packed five hours at our Flick the Switch event yesterday about the transition to all electric, net zero buildings and cities. The subject matter certainly struck a chord – we had record numbers in […]
The latest in low carbon concrete
In an already emissions-heavy building sector, concrete and cement were linked to an estimated eight per cent of annual global emissions, according to a 2018 report from London think tank Chatham House.
Why blockchain just might be the answer to better construction
Blockchain could unlock desperately needed modernisation in Australia’s construction industry, according to Professor Srinath Perera from Western Sydney University’s Centre for Smart Modern Construction.
Ebook: Flick the Switch
Flick the Switch! – the ebook
Flick the Switch is a guide to achieving Net Zero and all-electric buildings. It’s a wrap of our 2020 symposium on this topic plus deep-dive additional interviews and features on the people and topics that are driving change and helping the property industry head in the right direction. Nearly two dozen panellists and speakers generously […]
