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Building materials company Boral reckons its upgraded Southern Highlands-based Berrima Cement Works in New South Wales will reduce carbon in its plant through technology that relies on biofuels but reduces their negative impact.

Brother Nature, a young brother and sister-led building company based near the New South Wales snowfields wants other Australian builders to share the enormous benefits they discovered when they became enamored of mass timber.

The residential sector is set for the kind of radical improvement in energy efficiency that transformed commercial property. According to residential housing analysts CoreLogic the real estate sector, from agents to property technology companies, expects a raft of benefits to flow, including a tsunami of demand for new skills.

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Delving into the strata world is like taking the wrong turn down the rabbit hole of building related trauma, which is bad enough, then discovering a whole new group of people living under the radar, struggling to find their way out.

Karl-Heinz Weiss has been advising on a new prefab factory at Orange, 260 kilometres west Sydney. Weiss, former head of Lendlease’s DesignMake business will share his views on the challenges and opportunities of MMC at The Fifth Estate’s leaders forum

Australia had the world’s first green Olympics. It lifted the nation, and this industry in particular, in so many ways. But now David Crisafulli has kyboshed Brisbane’s commitment to rival the Sydney Olympics.

Stockland, along with its consortium partners Link Wentworth, City West Housing, and Birribee Housing, finalised contracts last week for the development of the Waterloo Renewal Project in Sydney with Homes NSW.

Committee for Sydney packs a punch as a leading influencer on the policy stage. A quick look at its membership underscores why – it’s where the big end of town clusters.

Brookfield has finalised the long running sale of its Aveo retirement living asset to Scape’s rebranded parent business The Living Company.