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“The number of approvals for new home building started 2019 on a positive note with an increase of 2.5% during January (2019) in seasonally-adjusted terms,” according to Master Builders Australia’s Chief Economist Shane Garrett. “The rise in approvals during January (2019) follows a run of weak results during the back end of last year (2018). […]

In 2014, Victorian builder Burbank teamed up with the centre for design and society at RMIT to build Australia’s first 99 per cent waste free home in the Melbourne north-western suburb of Melton. Constructed using a combination of design strategies such as altering the type of brick and roofing materials used and waste management strategies […]

When visitors enter the three-storey Library at the Dock building at Melbourne’s Docklands for the first time, many respond to the building’s natural elements such as timber columns, wooden beams, and wooden staircase and feel a sense of calmness and ease. Whilst designed primarily for sustainability and attractiveness, this is one of a growing number […]

The Victorian Government will put local jobs and businesses first when building the Geelong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Local jobs for Geelong. Victorian Minister for Regional Development Jaala Pulford joined Member for Geelong Christine Couzens and Member for Bellarine Lisa Neville to announce the new state strategic project – ensuring local businesses and workers will […]

In order to slash build times as a nation we need to Industrialised Construction One example of industrialised Construction and how this can be done is Barcelona Housing Systems in Spain. All components are pre-cut in a factory. This includes panels for foundations, stairs and balconies, frame (floor/roof base/horizontal), load (wall) (vertical) (centre and perimeter), […]

Architecture is all around us even though it’s often so seamlessly blended with the surroundings, you don’t even notice it until somebody else draws your attention to it. Moreover, like every other industry, it’s also developing and changing to suit our needs and preferences. With that in mind, here are a few architectural trends that […]

Geelong the place to Be! Economic and political stability are helping to support Melbourne in the slowdown, and it may get through without a scratch Melbourne and Sydney are being highlighted as having the weakest property market conditions in Australia by CoreLogic’s Hedonic Home Index for October 2018, but Melbourne may come out better than its […]

Change Starts with Beliefs and Values… “Australia needs to make ‘a complete shift’ in the way it plans cities” outgoing Infrastructure Australia chief executive Philip Davies told the Australian Finance Review Weekend recently. Davies recommended asking people what infrastructure they want rather than forcing road and rail projects on them and engaging with communities to […]

You often don’t know you’re in a bubble until it has actually popped. This is what ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, was warning three years ago. Shortly after Federal Treasury secretary, John Fraser, was somewhat less circumspect saying that Sydney was ‘unequivocally’ in a housing bubble with the same applying to Melbourne and other parts of […]

With an average of 35 workers being seriously injured every day, the building and construction sector in Australia has a high profile when it comes to occupational health and safety hazards hence the introduction of SWMS. Whether it is heavy lifting or carrying, working at height, working in and around vehicles, equipment and machinery or […]