A key aim of the project is to ensure that timber continues to be the dominant and preferred material for lightweight framing ...

Implemented in 2016, that plan has allowed for medium density housing of 2-7 stories on around three quarters of the New ...

The Recommended section of the Universal Design Guide covered future and upcoming standards. The Universal section focused on ...

In detached housing, average build timeframes (from approval to completion) eased by more than one month to go from 12.7 ...

The overwhelming response from our members was the need for a bipartisan approach to planning reform. The view was clear – if ...

Measurement of embodied carbon emissions is critical if Australia is to deliver sustainable built environment outcomes, ...

Overseas, Hooper notes that large data centre companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building their own energy ...

To meet this target, Australia needs to build 240,000 new homes each year or 60,000 new homes each quarter (net of ...

Set to open during the second half of next year, WSI will be Australia’s first new greenfield international airport in more ...

More than one in eight (13.5 percent) had received an electric shock at work. This number doubles in cases where apprentices have had the commencement of their training delayed. One in five could not ...

Australia’s best landscape architecture projects for 2025 have been unveiled. At its Festival of Landscape Architecture held in Hobart last week, the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA ...

Australia’s housing crisis has been described as a challenge of ‘war-time’ proportions, and nowhere is the urgency more acute than in social and affordable housing. (A 5 bedroom home, constructed in ...