Oct 15, 2024 · Brisbane City Council on Sunday hosted an Open Day for its all electric Metro, a bus fleet that closely resembles Perth’s “trackless trams” and features the capacity to recharge via a wireless overhead system in less than three minutes.. The new transport fleet is a key milestone in its plans to decarbonise transport for the whole city ahead of the Brisbane Olympics in 2032.

Dec 19, 2024 · 3. Urban design has a dark side to its creativity – two projects in Brisbane show how. This OpEd from QUT and UQ academics argued why aggressive forms of “hostile architecture” like Howard Smith Wharves and Brisbane’s new …

Why we need property linked finance for homes, now. Property linked finance, has already been proved in three Australian states. It is now gaining momentum as a transformative finance tool that could enable both new, highly efficient homes and enable millions of existing inefficient houses to become the homes Australians deserve.

Murray Hogarth is a regular columnist and correspondent for The Fifth Estate. He also is an industry/professional fellow with the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures, and an independent guide to businesses and other organisations.

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Aug 3, 2023 · University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) research student and engineering officer Mari Miranda told The Fifth Estate that it was likely because of the lack of knowledge surrounding how to use bamboo as a construction material because of the difficulty of connecting bamboo’s hollow and thin-walled culms, or stems. Australian builders expect more regular profiles in their building materials ...

Apr 3, 2024 · In a slight (useful) twinge of that old two-state rivalry, Krpan generously noted that New South Wales had for the first time beaten Victoria with the number of heat pumps installed last year “for the first time” but that Victoria would soon regain that title if the activity since the start of this year was any guide.

Dec 10, 2020 · Perhaps more surprising is the steel frame (not so much edible, but it is what cookware is made from) of Greenhouse 5.0. Bakker has been an advocate for steel for some time, attracting criticism from some quarters due to its carbon-intensive fabrication process.

Dec 12, 2024 · Join Tina Perinotto, managing editor of The Fifth Estate, in a leisurely walkthrough of Molonglo Group’s inspiring Dairy Road Project - an innovative precinct that adaptively reused and transformed an industrial depot into a vibrant, thriving and creative community.

Aug 29, 2022 · EXPLAINER: The NSW government's new planning policy will set new standards for energy, water and thermal performance of new homes, and extend BASIX environmental rating standards to some non-residential buildings for the first time. There’s even provisions for net zero commercial buildings and the measure of embodied carbon.