Bevin Liu

ike all good economies in the world, money makes the world go round, said Dr Jason Graham-Nye recently at the Australian Circular Economy Forum this year.

Another competitor has joined the array of proposed timber towers in Australia, racing to lay claim to “the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower”. This one’s in Perth with developer Erben, previously known as Stirling Capital, planning to construct A 35-storey structure on a site on the fringe of Perth’s CBD.

Petie Walker’s fireside chat with The Fifth Estate at Blue Zones and How to Make Them revealed that one of Australia’s biggest residential developers is

At Blue Zones, Bates Smart director Kellie Payne took the audience on a journey to see the world through the eyes of architecture and its subtle ability

Australia was the second top location for capital data centre investment in 2024, with $6.7 billion, behind the United States at $14.6 billion. But we need to reel it in.

This year’s Australian Urban Design Awards, convened by the Australian Institute of Architects and the Planning Institute of Australia, have recently named the founder of Nightingale Housing and Breathe architects, Jeremy McLeod, as one of its urban design champions.

Not only do experts suspect that the nuclear energy plan by the coalition will cost far more than anticipated by analysis released last week by think tank Climate Energy Finance (CEF) has found that the plan will also “hollow out” the nation with “higher energy costs, unabated carbon pollution and trillions of dollars in lost GDP.”

The teal movement of independents represents an alternative to major parties. It had its first blueprint in 2019, when Zali Steggall won the seat of Warringah from former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

Consultant HDR have appointed Huai Lim as the managing principal of its Australian architecture practice, Aurecon appoints new Australian CEO, AIA picks up Cathryn Callaghan

Australian green bus firm, GoZero group, has hit multiple bumps in its goal to electrify all of NSW’s 8000 buses, after its ambitions to become a public trading company were dashed last week.

Sydney based software aggregator, Software Combined Group has acquired Hero Software, a software company offering NatHERS compliance measuring and advisory.

The federal government has finally stepped in to cauterise the haemorrhage of Sanjeev Gupta’s Whyalla steelworks in South Australia after months of speculation and years of erratic prospects.

As the US turns its back on the lucrative and growing green transition, the Albanese government keeps pushing ahead with its Future Made In Australia bill.

Queensland might be looking at following the trend of dumbing down building code standards after the South Australian Labor government led the move, which has alarmed observers in the housing industry.

In the face of a backlash against climate change action, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has doubled down on its action and signalled its intention to work more closely with China after one of its banking giants, Bank of China, joined the taskforce last week.

Feature: It’s onward and upwards for data centres, a property asset class that has exploded in energy consumption and investment value. At the same time, it’s a sector that supports almost every aspect of daily human life, according to Cushman and Wakefield’s Alex Moffatt.

The shift to decarbonise the transport sector is ramping up with a mix of new technologies for electric charging and government policies boosting their net zero transition policies. 

The New South Wales government has announced the six winners across two categories in the state’s Housing Pattern Book Design competition.

Sustainability, heritage and boundary-pushing were this year’s winners of the National Architecture Awards

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has just recently signed a memorandum of understanding, this time with the ING bank.