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Navigating our way through the ‘next normal’ and beyond to a sustainable future, requires innovative responses to complex challenges.
Specifically to the impacts of population growth, increased urbanisation, emerging mobility, climate change, digital disruption and finite natural resources.
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Finding the Balance in Bridge Maintenance
Bridges are vital to our daily lives, but traditional maintenance methods can be costly, time-consuming, labour-intensive, and often risky. Manual inspections typically require under-bridge units, scaffolding, ladders, boom lifts, and even boats to reach hard-to-access areas, making them expensive and disruptive.
Designing Flexible Healthcare Facilities
As healthcare evolves, new technologies and treatment methods present challenges that demand innovative design. Flexibility is the key to meeting these challenges, ensuring hospitals and healthcare centres can adapt without needing structural changes as medical practices advance.
Engineering the Future of Heritage Buildings
Heritage buildings are architectural time capsules that tell yesterday’s stories; collective reminders of history, culture, and craftsmanship.
Get On Board the Build to Rent Bandwagon
The global housing crisis is already hitting hard and is set to worsen. While causes vary from country to country, soaring rents and purchase prices and shortages in lending, labour and materials are some of the root issues. The bottom line is a staggering 90% of 200 cities worldwide are unaffordable to live in.
The Importance of LOD400 modelling for Mass Timber Structures
The construction industry has always been at the forefront of adapting to new technological advances, ensuring that the infrastructure we live in is as sustainable, efficient, and advanced as possible.
Cost Considerations for a Mass Timber Office Building
In the ever-evolving world of sustainable architecture, while we are all looking at ways to lower our embodied carbon output as a society, mass timber has emerged as a game-changer.
The Infrastructure-Supported Renewable Shift
With a 56% increase in global demand for electricity by 2040, energy talk is everywhere. From water cooler chats to messaging from all levels of government, discussion about the shift from fossil fuels to renewables is pervasive.
Adaptive Reuse: Revitalising the Past to Create the Future
Sustainable development encompasses principles and practices such as high energy efficiency, net-zero impact, and embracing circularity with minimal material use. The adaptive reuse of historic buildings is integral to this holistic approach, creating future-proof built assets while upholding community values.
Balancing Concrete, Steel and Timber: The Future of Architecture and Structural Design
The modern architectural landscape is rapidly evolving, with designers and architects continually exploring innovative materials and design philosophies to meet the dynamic needs of societies. In this race towards sustainable urbanisation, three materials often find themselves at the forefront of discussions – concrete, steel and timber. While both materials have their unique strengths and historical significance, the way forward lies not in isolating one from the other but in discovering a harmonious blend between the three.
Can we Reactivate our Central Business Districts?
The pandemic will have a lasting impact on how people work and nowhere will this be more evident than in central business districts (CBDs). When lockdowns were implemented, it transformed CBDs from vibrant centres of work and social activity to virtual ghost towns, where near-empty public transport, closed shops and vacant commercial towers, became the norm.