A large heritage office and a small sustainable workplace have taken home awards for sustainability at the 2017 Property Council of Australia / Rider Levett Bucknall Innovation and Excellence Awards. The spectacular refurbishment of one of Sydney’s most loved sandstone buildings, 5 Martin Place, has been rewarded with the Clean…

Like many Australians and as publishers of green magazine our family has been itching to rely less on grid electricity and shrink our electricity bills. We’re excited to see advancements in renewable energy technology and the plethora of new products for the “smart home”. Now, we are fortunate to use…

We all want to work somewhere nice, somewhere that has natural light rather than a million fluorescent bulbs burning our eyes. Unfortunately we can’t always get what we want, however a new trend paper from the Brookings Institution’s Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Initiative on Innovation and Placemaking, called “Innovation…

Melbourne is a proud participant in the initiative ‘100 Resilience Cities – Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation’ (100RC). Through this collaboration, Resilient Melbourne is working with Citymart, a 100RC Platform Partner, to explore solutions to one of Melbourne’s chronic stresses – increasing transport congestion and travel times, along with associated…

In joint partnership SJB and ASPECT Studios was commissioned by the City of Parramatta Council to create a Framework Plan for the Civic Link. The proposal is a new 500 meter long linear park that runs through the centre of the CBD on a north-south axis; beginning at the northern…

Imagine if your place of play and relaxation was sandwiched between industrial sites and factories, atop hot, grey asphalt and directly under a noisy flight path. These are some of the reasons Marrickville Public School jumped at the opportunity to enter My Park Rules, a national initiative of the Australian…

Science Minister Dave Kelly has announced the opening of applications for round two of the State Government’s Agriculture and Aquaculture Entrepreneurship Program. The program forms part of the Science and Agribusiness Connect initiative’s suite of programs designed to build the capability of the Western Australian agrifood sector. Three scholarships of…

The Think Brick Awards have announced their jury members for 2017 with a line-up of local and international architecture industry experts, who will judge this year’s category winners and finalists to be announced on 10 August. The 2017 Think Brick Awards jury panel includes Ben Green, Director of Tzannes; Cameron…