From a global perspective, buildings and construction account for around 37 percent of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. In Australia, meanwhile, the transport sector contributes about a fifth of the ...

Data centre operators throughout Australia have a significant opportunity to help to address the nation’s energy, water and community challenges, a leading researcher says. During a recent interview ...

At their October meeting this year, Australia’s state and federal building ministers made an important decision in respect of the National Construction Code (NCC). As reported by the Australian ...

Australia will need to triple the volume of installed capacity in energy generation and storage if the nation is to deliver a secure and reliable net zero grid by 2050, according to the latest roadmap ...

What are the prospects for lifting residential construction productivity? What role might increasing the amount of off-site construction work performed play? It’s time to face into the ‘how’, of ...

Governments across Australia are struggling with the multi-faceted causes of the housing supply and affordability crisis. All governments are committed to policy measures that speed up the planning ...

Prefabricated homes in NSW will have a single pathway for building approval as part of proposed reforms which aim to facilitate greater productivity in the state’s construction sector. And duplicate ...

Victoria’s home building sector is now back on the rise, as ‘hard data’ confirms that activity is re-accelerating, an industry breakfast has heard. And the state’s home renovations sector is set to ...

The world’s best buildings for 2025 have been unveiled. Award winners have been announced at the World Architecture Festival, that was held at the Miami Beach Convention Centre in Florida last week.

The finish line for tunnelling on a huge Sydney railway project is in sight after two machines each weighing more than 1,000 tonnes smashed their way past the deepest part of Darling Harbour. Two ...

To mobilise private capital into housing production developers must make a reasonable margin for profit and risk. Achieving this margin is a challenge right now. With the exception of luxury ...

High speed testing has begun on one of Sydney’s biggest rail projects, with trains now running at speeds of up to 100 kilometers per hour on the line. The NSW Government has announced that high speed ...