The Fifth Estate’s top stories for 2024
Dec 19, 2024 · Have you been reading the news? Need a refresher of all things happening in the sustainable built environment? Or just miss reading The Fifth Estate over summer? Here are …
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The case for social housing on church land - The Fifth Estate
Sep 29, 2020 · Tone Wheeler of Environa Studio says there are three options to find land for affordable housing: government, churches and philanthropists. The government seems little …
‘Stop slamming the brakes’ the National Construction Code is …
Dec 10, 2024 · Leading property data specialist CoreLogic released new data on Monday to show that the National Construction Code had led to the vastly improved quality of new housing in …
How NextDC is making its data centres more energy efficient and …
Aug 9, 2022 · In the digital age, we rely on data more than ever before. But the data centres that store that information are incredibly power hungry.
Bamboo – why isn’t it our biggest building material? - The Fifth …
Aug 3, 2023 · Sustainable, versatile, strong, and quickly replenished, bamboo could be the building material that brings us closer to a net-zero carbon footprint. But why hasn't a large …
Passive House – the long form debate, point by point - The Fifth …
Mar 23, 2021 · Is lightweight construction and passive solar better in Australia’s climate and what of PH’s claims that passive solar is a fundamental starting point for PH? Tackling these issues …
Ninety per cent of Australian consumers want sustainable products
Sep 10, 2020 · Nine in 10 Australian consumers are more likely to purchase ethical and sustainable products according to a new research, with the survey also revealing that 85 per …
Small details emerge from Melbourne’s massive “vertical village” …
Nov 28, 2023 · Cbus is keeping many of the details of its new $1 billion “sky village” office tower in Melbourne under wraps but according to the trickle of information seeping out this is a project …
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