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  • Western Sydney Councils form renewable buying group, in bid to slash emissions

    17 Feb 2020 Sophie Vorrath, OneStepOffTheGrid.com
    Ten western Sydney councils have joined forces to launch a new and broad-ranging strategy to cut local government emissions, including through the procurement of renewable energy and the adoption of l ...
  • Engineers Australia has teamed up with non-profit group Partner Housing to connect people in bushfire affected areas with free engineering services. The initiative aims to support landowners with unin ...
  • Carden Wood joins Imagination Australia having recently returned to her native Sydney from London, where she spent the last decade working with some of the UK’s leading design agencies. With a backgro ...
  • The NSW Building Commissioner has warned about the massive effort it will take and the major fix to the state's residential construction crisis is a lengthy two years away, as fresh cracks emerged in ...
  • GPS Dropouts in tunnels a thing of the past

    14 Feb 2020 Trevor Long - EFTM
    Late last year toll-road operator Transurban announced an Australian first: GPS Signal beacons had been installed in 18km of Brisbane Tunnels, now that same technology is coming to Sydney to make navi ...
  • It's Getting Hot Out Here

    14 Feb 2020 Sarah Buckley
    Penrith City Council and Western Sydney University (WSU) have embarked on a project where they collect data from 120 heat sensors over summer, proving the relationship between development and urban he ...
  • One of the biggest contractors and constructors of large-scale solar farms in Australia, the listed constructing giant Downer Group, has signaled a dramatic exit from the solar business, saying it is ...
  • Every Australian and many other people in the world are now feeling the fear that Greta Thunberg enunciated just one year ago in her speech at Davos. Much to the surprise of the hopeful, hope has not ...
  • Inspired by simple unitary forms and place-making within Aboriginal culture, the new community building and plaza in Sydney are to be imagined based around the notion of the shelter, a symbolic respit ...
  • What is it that your company does exactly? what is your main USP and how do you feel that you stand out from the crowd?  Top Notch Tools is the sole distribution partner of new innovative dust free dr ...
  • What is it that your company does exactly? what is your main USP and how do you feel that you stand out from the crowd? Zuuse is a leading global software provider across the full asset life-cycle. Ou ...
  • Florence Mary Taylor: "The most remarkable woman in the Empire"

    11 Feb 2020 Sarah Buckley - ArchitectureandDesign.Com
    Florence Mary Taylor – structural engineer, civil engineer, the first female architect in Australia, an Officer of the British Empire, the first woman to attempt a glider flight in Australia, the firs ...
  • Australia's leading construction, design and infrastructure expo, Sydney Build, will play host to Australia’s first-ever LinkedIn-powered Networking Lounge this March. Conceived by Oliver Kinross, org ...
  • Western Sydney University has officially introduced a new $60,000 scholarship to encourage women’s participation in architecture, funded Frasers Property Australia. The scholarship will aim to fund tw ...
  • As many as one billion animals in Australia died following the series of wildfires that have devastated and ravaged the country in the past few months. In January, Penn State architecture professor Ri ...
  • Construction starts on Parramatta light rail project

    06 Feb 2020 International Railway Journal
    The new line currently being constructed in Paramatta, will have 16 stations, will connect Westmead with Carlingford via the Parramatta central business district and Camellia. Operation and completion ...
  • While exporters were expected enjoyed a solid end to 2019, the welcome news was tempered by a warning from Prime Minister Scott Morrison of a “significant” hit to Australia’s economy from China’s rapi ...
  • First major infrastructure completed for Western Sydney Airport

    02 Feb 2020 Kim Ho - Infrastructure Magazine
    A new bridge, practically as wide as the Sydney Harbour Bridge, is now ready for traffic as the first phase of construction on the airport wraps up. The bridge was built with the intention of being a  ...
  • Australia's leading construction, design and infrastructure expo, Sydney Build, is set to host its largest Women in Construction Summit ever, with an impressive line-up of female ambassadors and indus ...
  • Kengo Kuma's First Australian 'Timber Tornado'

    23 Jan 2020 Sarah Buckley, ArchitectureandDesign.com.au
    Japanese Architecture Icon Kengo Kuma’s first experience in  Australia worked wonders as he newly completed design the Darling Exchange is set to drive the $3.4b Darling Square redevelopment of Darlin ...
  • In many ways, architecture photographer John Gollings is ahead of his time. What defines his image is his ability to portray architecture with personality rather than as static monuments to just gawk ...
  • Cracked Towers Spark Widespread Safety Fears About High Rises

    22 Jan 2020 Matt O'Sullivan, Sydney Morning Herald
    Eight in 10 Sydneysiders have safety concerns about the structural soundness of several high-rise apartment buildings in the wake of a crisis sparked by the cracked Opal and Mascot towers. An Ipsos po ...
  • Redesigning Centennial Park To Care For Australia's Endangered Animals

    21 Jan 2020 Heidi Harrington-Johnson, UNSW Newsroom
    The big question in the wake of the devastating bushfires ravaging Australia is could inner-city parklands be used to house endangered animal species? That’s a question that’s been answered by a group ...
  • The NSW Government wants to introduce a range of measures to clamp down on dodgy developers and prevent a repeat of the Opal and Mascot towers cracking crises. The Minister for Better Regulation, Kevi ...

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