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Continuing our Timber Revolution series, we look at Australia's first mass-timber apartment building, which was built from timber grown in Austria.

A Melbourne epidemiologist agreed to let a team of United States researchers into her kitchen to measure what is being emitted by her gas cooktop. What they found left her concerned.

Rondo’s qualified engineers ensure the correct internal design pressures have been used by customising their designs to a specific building, every time.

Its even hotter outside.Families that have moved into affordable housing units built in the last few years are finding their comfort and health have not been sufficiently considered in the design and construction of the new dwellings.There are similar issues in Indonesia where one study showed most household energy use was dedicated to trying unsuccessfully to stay cool and Australia, where tenants in rental properties were regularly experiencing indoor temperatures above 30 degrees in summer.We...

From pull-apart kitchens and open stairs to the return of the Queenslander, flood-resilient building doesn’t need to cost more

In the wake of the one-year anniversary of the Queensland and Northern NSW floods, JDA Co’s James Davidson is calling for flood resilience regulations within the National Construction Code.

Fibreclad CFC facade panels were chosen by the architects for Warrina Aged Care FNQ for all the right reasons.

Current strategies to address the housing needs of nearly 20 per cent of the NSW population cannot meet demand and are not fit for purpose, disability groups say.

Current strategies to address the housing needs of nearly 20 percent of the New  South Wales (NSW) population ...

With the 2022 National Construction Code (NCC) soon coming into effect, new residential dwellings must achieve higher level of performance on the Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS).