Pressure is mounting to increase “out of date” 6 star minimum energy efficiency standards for new homes ahead of the COAG Energy Council meeting next Wednesday.

Architect Simon Cooke says 2D land maps used by most architects preclude most of the market from quality.

Coworking has the potential to be much more than selling workstations and an online collaboration platform. 

Opinion: It’s hard to believe that a government agency can be this ineffectual.

The demand for radical change by the United Nations in October this year to limit global warming to a 1.5 degree global temperature increase, requires fundamental change. 

The recently launched Heuga platform led by the DNW Group claims is the customer-facing component of a new collaborative building model premised on off-site construction.

Billionaire industrialist Sanjeev Gupta has announced plans to build the largest steel plant in the developed world in South Australia.

The City of Melbourne is undertaking a “next generation” sustainability-focused revamp of the Council House 1 site.

When highly acclaimed Melbourne-based architect John Wardle opens his new studio in Sydney on 14 January next year it will mark the start, he thinks, of one of the most interesting and exciting decades for architecture, sustainability and the built environment.

There’s an information war going on between advocates for timber, concrete and steel, and everyone is claiming their material is the best from an environmental perspective.

Brisbane based architect Mark Thomson has just come back from judging a segment in the World Architecture Festival in Europe. While he was there he also gave two presentations to the UN General Assembly in Geneva and had a big look around at what countries on the far side of sustainability are doing on the ground. He’s feeling humbled.

Human nature and behaviour patterns are increasingly coming to the fore in managing energy efficiency for commercial buildings in particular. Now Johnson Controls has released a report showing it’s a rising trend.

OPINION: The dilemma that faces many local governments in cities around the world is how to finance regeneration schemes when their central government does not offer sufficient support and land prices are high. Cities like Vienna and Hamburg have found a solution that doesn’t price out their own citizens. London has not.

Inside the thinking of the 2018 Australian Institute of Architects awards jury, especially about what’s meant by sustainability.

Commercial offices are a “forgotten market” in WA for exploring sustainable building options. Now they’ve got a new timber building designed by Harris Jenkins Architects and Josh Byrne and Associates.