Tina Perinotto

VIDEO INTERVIEW: Steve Sammartino is an inspiration to interview. From a personal point of view, it's immensely refreshing to find a futurist who

There are plenty of spruikers for residential Passive House (PH), but what about all those leaky B and C grade office buildings that are past their use-by date and yet have too much embodied carbon to lose in a knockdown?

Australian homes have been famously described as “glorified tents” that despite a rapidly deteriorating climate and soaring energy bills, fall far short of the resilient, healthy and energy efficient homes we need them to be.

There are two reasons that Robyn Hyslop won the Jeff Robinson Environmental Award from the Property Council of Australia’s Victorian division. One is the work she does in her job to progress sustainability and the carbon transition at major real estate agency Colliers in Melbourne.

The Fifth Estate dropped into Futurebuild Australia in Sydney last week to have a chat with some of the more sustainable exhibitors on show for our newfound plaything of video interviews.

Elevators can save energy, carbon and time. Just ask Adam Daly of Kone.

What an atmosphere at the City Recital Hall in Sydney on Thursday night. It was the NSW Australian Institute of Architects Awards and the place was hopping. Noisy, excited voices that seemed the tangible, cumulative result of what’s no doubt been a year of incredibly hard (and long) work, commitment and challenge.

The federal government is set to offload about $3 billion of land thanks to surplus defence sites and a CSIRO Ginninderra site near Canberra that's past its use by date.

A year ago, the outlook for women in sustainability was looking a tad on the grim side. Their traditional high visibility in the profession was slipping, at least in terms of wage parity.

The incidence of projects claiming they aim for green rating standards, but don't both to certify them, is greenwash.