The energy policies and building standards that govern our homes need to keep us comfortable and limit global warming. Passive house, a rigorous building standard for ultra-low energy buildings, ticks these boxes.

Government and industry to take joint responsibility and act together to restore trust in the building industry.

The market for environmentally sound building materials is changing. If you think bamboo can just be used to grow beans up in your garden, think again.

One bright note from last week’s Building Ministers Forum was an agreement to progress work to increase the energy performance requirements for residential construction under the National Construction Code for the planned 2022 iteration.

NSW, we think, is the standout on taking action on dodgy building, but for the rest of the nation…we’re still waiting.

It may not be intentional, but both the feng shui uninitiated and experts of the theory seem to agree that the Chau Chak Wing Museum building will have a negative impact on the energy of the iconic Sydney university campus.

Clients and their consultants are at the front of the bus, in a broken industry. 

There are many logical and economic reasons to support better energy efficiency in housing especially for low income housing where standards sometimes verge on the appalling, but no, the government says no again.

The next generation of urban planners and problem solvers are using the popular electronic building blocks game Minecraft to solve the design challenges faced by the Western Sydney Airport.

One bunch of owners of a building with defective cladding is shouldering the cost of façade replacement itself – to the tune of $300,000 – instead of chasing the builders or other parties. Is this what poor building quality has come to? Looks like it.

At last, after 12 long years we might finally see some improvement in the energy efficiency requirements for housing.

A special report on university campuses and educational buildings in a carbon-constrained era We’re planning a special report on university campuses and educational buildings. While many universities divested from coal a…

The new National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation’s first loan is for $35 millioin to Hume Community Housing.

Shopping centres may have fallen upon harder times thanks to online retailing but perhaps this speed bump can serve as an opportunity to rethink these giant structures and make them…

Hobart recently unveiled a “smart bin” trial that could see bins deployed across the city that can advise when they’re full and need emptying outside of the normal schedule.