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I met with a friend for a walk beside Merri Creek, in inner Melbourne. She had lived in the area for a few years, and as we walked beside the creek, past trees, native grasses, a small wetland echoing with frog calls, I talked about how it had looked before we started the site’s restoration around 25 years ago. She stopped in her tracks, astonished. “But I thought it had always been like this!”
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The Project Management Institute (PMI) 2024 Jobs Report shows that the need for project managers will increase in 2024 due to the simultaneous occurrence of ongoing construction and infrastructure ventures, coupled with the Australian Government’s commitment to achieving net-zero emissions.
It’s National Road Safety Week and it comes on the back of a year in which 1,286 people died on Australian roads. The rising road toll – up 8.2% for the year to March – included 62 children. Tragically, road deaths remain the number one killer of children in Australia.
The 70s is considered a virtual golden age for home design and construction. Many houses built in the 70s are still occupied in their original design. However, as architectural styles continue to develop more and more 70s houses are becoming outdated.
As home ownership moves further out of reach for many Australians, “rentvesting” is being touted as a lifesaver.
Electric vehicles are often seen as the panacea to cutting emissions – and air pollution – from transport.
In the handful of years since working from home suddenly became the ‘new normal’, the Flight to Quality has defined the ongoing battle to entice employees back to the office – increasing the demand for, and build of, premium buildings.
Suburbia is the least sustainable form of urban living. Houses spread out at such low densities that too much land, too much energy and too much infrastructure is needed to support too few people.
Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage’s Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia’s forests were kept open through frequent burning by First Nations people.
Australia’s high energy costs, combined with the desire of many people to be part of the climate change solution, mean it makes sense to find heating solutions that are not only environmentally friendly but also cost-effective.
Rising damp is a huge problem for older homes. Here is how to identify, treat and prevent rising damp from damaging your home.
Late last year, to the alarm of many, a 12-storey apartment block in North Melbourne, built just five years prior, was approved for demolition. Just one example of the average 100,000 buildings that get approved for demolition in Australia each year, it demonstrates what can happen when a short-sighted approach to the urban planning of our cities takes hold — the proliferation of low-grade buildings with short lifespans.
