Many Australians still equate prefabricated construction with mass-produced, characterless houses that are not built to last. But one of Japan’s biggest builders of prefab homes has been in Australia for…

NABERS ratings have been phenomenally successful for offices: they’ve penetrated 80 per cent of the office space market and saved a mountain in energy costs for landlords. Now there’s a…

While the recent Avdiev Remuneration Report pointed to some minor spot clouds around for salaries in the property sector, you’d expect professionals in the residential sector, architects in particular, to feel a tad more vulnerable than most.

Sekisui House and Flow Systems have teamed up to provide an embedded energy and gas network for residents at “The Orchards” at Norwest in Sydney.

Architect Michael Heenan, co-principal of Allen Jack+Cottier says he and his team saw the change in market demand for residential property coming a few years ago, and carefully adjusted their strategy to prepare.

Arup’s Sydney team has just moved into new digs in Barrack Place and it couldn’t be more pleased.

A recent scientific breakthrough could see self-healing polymers – which are able to “heal” like human skin – become viable for manufacture in existing factories in six to 12 months.…

It looks like change is underway for architects

Our cities are growing massively but we don’t need tall towers to cope with a rapid rise in housing. Try gentle urbanism instead. A view from Sydney but applicable everywhere.

It’s possible to design apartments of all shapes and sizes to promote health and wellbeing. Architects and designers say they just need the right conditions to do so.

The debate on the role of architects just ramped up another notch this week, first with a thought piece by Philip Graus, and now Clare Cousins, national president of the Australian Institute of Architects, has her say.

The official opening on Thursday of Kinestral’s new smart-tinting glass factory in Miaoli, south of Taipei, allows for the production of commercial quantities of high-quality smart-tinting window glass for the international market.

The uptake of the NABERS rating system by shopping centres, the indoor environment and hospitals have gone through the roof according to the national Australian rating system’s annual report. 

Should architect stick to buildings or is their remit much broader, extending to strategic influence over the city itself?

New research released by real estate services firm Stok on Tuesday unearthed a hidden value of high performance buildings: happier and healthier people.