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WEBLatest news highlights September 2024. First industrial shed awarded Green Star, Greenpeace fights against planned pare back, Aussies are turning to Van Homes in the midst of the housing crisis, AAA calls for fast-tracked social housing, New contract rules support local businesses, AHURI says that Australians deserve better, 100,000 new ...
How LED lighting can help wellbeing, productivity and the …
WEBVisual acuity can vary up to 35 per cent between groups of 60 and 30 year olds at the same light levels, which proves a dynamic and flexible lighting system is needed to satisfy the comfort needs for all individuals in a building, Mr Verhaar said. This in turn influences peoples’ mood, productivity and job satisfaction. In 2000, a discovery of a new type of photoreceptor in the eye that ...
The inside story on green steel - time to put pedal to the metal
WEBJun 8, 2021 · Materials. The inside story on green steel – time to put pedal to the metal. by Poppy Johnston 8 June 20219 June 2021. Steel needs to be decarbonised but there are big challenges. SPECIAL REPORT: The built environment has developed a taste for sustainable, low emissions steel — but in Australia, the cupboards are relatively bare.
The Greater Cities Commission excelled at the ... - The Fifth Estate
WEBDec 7, 2023 · The creation of the GCC transformed prospects for long-term strategic planning for the Greater Sydney area. Its powers under the GCC Act allowed it to bring all the agencies to the table and meant that transport and other essential infrastructure (such as schools and hospitals) were better coordinated with land use and in particular housing growth in established and new urban areas.
Construction begins on Australia’s tallest building amid density ...
WEBNov 4, 2015 · Construction begins on Australia’s tallest building amid density concerns. Construction has started on the foundations of what is expected to be Australia’s tallest building and the tallest apartment block in the Southern Hemisphere. Brookfield Multiplex has begun on-site piling on Melbourne’s newest addition to the cityscape, a 319-metre ...
Rolling out EVs to NSW government is a complex business
WEBNov 3, 2021 · Rolling out EVs to NSW government is a complex business. Duncan Murray 3 November 2021. NSW: While the NSW government’s electric vehicle fleet upgrade has been broadly welcomed, upgrading hundreds of government properties with charging infrastructure is proving to be a headache. Earlier this year the NSW government announced, as part of a ...
A new bridge and new thinking at Wentworth Point
WEBSep 1, 2014 · 100 people, 100 shovels at Wentworth Point bridge ceremony. Construction of a new bridge at Wentworth Point, west of Sydney started on Monday, has been fully developed and paid for by the developers of the new housing project, thanks to a value uplift scheme approved by the state government. It looks like a win-win all round.
NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler, two years in, on the …
WEBJun 24, 2021 · NSW doesn’t need a separate Building Commission, says the man appointed as the state’s Building Commissioner. But it does need a “reformed and modernised” regulator with sufficient powers and technology to implement the government’s reform agenda, David Chandler tells The Fifth Estate.. Nearly two years into the job and less than a year after he gained the power to enter and inspect ...
Melbourne gets its first 6 star NABERS building without Green Power
WEBAug 16, 2016 · 171 Collins Street's glass atrium. Cbus Property and Charter Hall’s 171 Collins Street building in Melbourne has become the city’s first to achieve a six star NABERS Energy rating without the use of Green Power – instead, the rating has been achieved entirely on the base building and operational energy use. A spokesman for NABERS said the ...
Rooftop urban farm revealed at Frasers’ Living Building Challenge ...
WEBFeb 8, 2018 · Last year, Frasers executive general manager, retail Peri Macdonald revealed to The Fifth Estate intentions to create an urban farm that would be a financial boon for the developer. The farm is part of meeting the requirements of the stringent Living Building Challenge, the first retail development in the world to attempt such a feat.
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