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Code compliance and raising builders’ margins are key to solving building defects

The solutions to the building defect problem must be multipronged and address incentives and capacity, writes Andrea Sharam.
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Climate heating: the Gehl model for public spaces as critical infrastructure

In a recent address in Sydney Henriette Vamberg, partner and managing director at the global urban strategy and design firm ...
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Trains and buses cancelled, blistered feet, exhausted people – what London taught me about climate heating

I expected London Climate Action Week to leave me thinking about climate policy, renewable energy and the pace of global ...
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On what’s coming up in our calendar

Just as we pull together the final strands in our revised and enhanced Q3 and Q4 events program, there’s been a stream of ...
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Electrifying strata Melbourne; UK Australian grant; Aware Super and Germany

Opportunities for strata apartments in Melbourne, British Council grants for Australian UK alumni, Aware Super firm invests ...
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The world is burning; we need to retrofit the planet

The New York Times made a bold and powerful statement this week. It says we need to retrofit the entire planet to survive the coming heat waves. In Australia, we already knew what to expect. Right now ...
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Beyond the green bin: rethinking food waste in multi-unit dwellings

More than 530 tonnes of food scraps from apartments are set to be diverted from landfills under a $4 million trial funded by ...