Keeping Everything in Order With Rammed Earth Walls
Down to Earth: The Sustainable Appeal of Rammed Earth Homes. Read more about it at Architecture and Design.Com.Au. Source: architectureanddesign.com.au Image credits by Jack Hawkins Architect
This Island Home Has a Green Roof Seeded With Native, Drought-Tolerant Plants
Beauty Meets Sustainability: A Green Roof most literally tops off this sublime tropical design, as presented by Inhabitat.Com. Source: Inhabitat.Com Image credits by Heliotrope Architects
Turning Empty Office Buildings Into Housing Could Instantly Transform Post-COVID Cities
Putting Sustainable Housing to Work: When workplaces become living spaces. Read more about it at Fast Company.Com. Source: Fast Company.Com Image source: istockphoto.com
To Curb Urban Flooding, China is Building ‘Sponge Cities.’ Do They Work?
Sponge Cities: A flooding solution that could lead to a state of greater sustainability? Read all about in CS Monitor. Source: CS Monitor Image source: istockphoto.com [...]
Waterproofing Design In Construction
Want a failproof design? Waterproof it! Find out how through this informative article at Sourceable.Net. Source: Sourceable.Net Image source: istockphoto.com
Construction Industry Most at Risk of Automation
Close to half of all businesses intend to increase their adoption of robotic process automation over the next year, with construction topping the list of industries most likely to [...]
ACT Government’s Cladding Rectification Scheme May Not go Far Enough: Owners
The ACT Minister for Sustainable Building and Construction is confident a new scheme to identify privately owned buildings with potentially dangerous flammable cladding will capture all the affected properties. Read [...]
Building More Affordable and Social Housing Keeps the State Safe and Saves the Public Purse: Experts
Governments have been urged to ramp up the construction of thousands of social and affordable homes in NSW to keep the state safe and save the public purse as [...]
Digital Technologies and Avoiding Complacency: Warnings Australia Should Heed From the Miami Building Collapse
The devastating collapse of the Champlain Towers South condos in Miami has triggered alarm bells for Australia’s construction and property sectors. Here’s what we can learn. Adopting modern technologies to [...]
Biggest Home Builder Urges NSW, SA to Drop Lockdown Construction Bans
Australia’s largest home builder, Metricon, has urged the NSW and South Australian governments to drop their lockdown bans on construction and follow Victoria’s approach in allowing building work to continue [...]