What if all our efforts to design and build sustainable eco homes over the last 20 years has been wasted? What if they don’t achieve the big reductions in energy and water that

The Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC) at the University of Wollongong is a 2,600m2 multi-disciplinary facility that brings together a wide range of researchers to holistically address the challenges of making our buildings

LJ Hooker has made a change that will revolutionise the way real estate is bought and sold in Australia. Finally, there is a mechanism for agents to recognise, understand, and value a home’s

Everything old is new again. We are so often returning to new interpretations of traditional low-tech ideas in our search for a path forwards. Hempcrete is just such a material, and now sits

There is a growing problem which has caught most of the design and construction industry with its warm but damp pants down: condensation. Everything is connected to everything else, as the guru once

The design and construction industry was given a preview of proposed upgrades to the BASIX sustainability regulations this week. The changes look good on the whole, and are long overdue, bringing something like

A serious problem has finally caught the media’s attention: that so-called sustainable buildings ain’t always what they’re supposed to be.

A solar powered boat office – is this a world first? I have been a solar power enthusiast since 1990, when I bought my first 160 watts of Solarex panels to power

Envirotecture's Andy Marlow is presenting once again at the Australian Passivhaus Conference.