Speaking at the International Herald Tribune Visionary Cities event, Viñoly said climate change is a possible cause and blamed the consultant-heavy process during the building of...
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Exterior Colour: More than Simply Decoration
Avoiding using colour means missing out on more than just its decorative capabilities. Colour can have a profound psychological and physiological impact on users of the built...
Shoddy Imports Imperil Australia’s Buildings
Stephen Raff, CEO of Ace Body Corporate and former president of Strata Community Australia (Vic) said the usage of low-quality imported products has become rife within the...
What’s the Biggest Risk in Construction Today?
Of course the ability to bear risk will be determined by who the client is, the scale of the project, its complexity, the unknowns and the usual suspects of time plus quality...
Construction Sector Beefs Up Action Against Dodgy Products
On September 1, the Australian Procurement and Construction Council (APCC) launched a 64-page guide to assist architects and builders in developing a...
Australian authorities ‘have known about dangers of flammable cladding for two decades’
Every square metre of flammable cladding covering tens of thousands of Australian apartment buildings contains the equivalent of five litres of petrol, an investigation by ABC TV...
How Did 1,862 Construction Firms Fail?
In announcing an inquiry into the state’s building and construction industry earlier this month, New South Wales Finance Minister Greg Pearce said he wants to...
Melbourne’s Federation Square granted heritage status for historical, social significance
Melbourne's controversial Federation Square building has been granted heritage status, protecting the space for its "historical, aesthetic, technological and social significance"...
What Lies Ahead in Construction: Leadership or More Licentiousness?
The blame for this calamity is unequivocally with those responsible for leadership failure: the senior departmental executives who formulated atrocious policies and the...
Melbourne hospital surveyor ‘far from satisfied’ with cladding
Independent engineer, builder and surveyor George Cross said he agreed to approve the occupancy of the $250 million women’s centre following the discovery of the cladding only...
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RMIT’s latest is a building to navigate as well as to inhabit
RMIT University's city campus has developed a reputation for heroic contemporary architecture. In the early 1990s Edmond and Corrigan's Building 8 in Swanston Street shook up...