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TFE Review: Housing, call for submissions

TFE Review: Housing, call for submissions

Call for submissions: We’re looking for the best solutions and most creative people in housing to feature in the March edition…

On how to sweep things under the carpet end of year, but not why

News from the Front Desk

On how to sweep things under the carpet end of year, but not why

At end of year you want to rule a line neatly under the 12 months just gone, notch up the wins and clean up the to-do list so you can start with a clean slate in the new year.

The Fifth Estate’s top stories for 2024

Articles

The Fifth Estate’s top stories for 2024

Have you been reading the news? Need a refresher of all things happening in…

NEWS FROM THE FRONT

Merry Christmas and happy new year!

Have a fabulous and safe break everyone! See you back for a rollicking 2025 third week of January!

Read the December briefs

We can democratise the data on energy efficiency – why the real estate industry and prop tech are excited

Housing

We can democratise the data on energy efficiency – why the real estate industry and prop tech are excited

by Tina Perinotto

The Fifth Estate’s Emerald Green awards 2024

Awards

The Fifth Estate’s Emerald Green awards 2024

by The Fifth Estate

Holcim Foundation Awards – a great opportunity for local talent with global ambitions

Holcim Foundation Awards – a great opportunity for local talent with global ambitions

Good news: new funding means more reasons to get that EV of your dreams

Energy

Good news: new funding means more reasons to get that EV of your dreams

by Bevin Liu

TFE Review – Buildings as Batteries, December 2024

TFE Review – Buildings as Batteries, December 2024

TFE Review – quarterly magazine December 2024,

TFE Review
– Quarterly magazine

Features: the residential boom on the way; offices – green, happy and hybrid (including retrofit spaces and furniture)

Features: the residential boom on the way; offices – green, happy and hybrid (including retrofit spaces and furniture)

TFE Review – Q4 2024

Buildings as batteries – the massive untapped potential for big property owners to slash emissions and energy bills

Buildings as batteries – the massive untapped potential for big property owners to slash emissions and energy bills

The decarbonising grid and the “enormous amount of money” that can be made

The decarbonising grid and the “enormous amount of money” that can be made

EV batteries so big they can power a house for three days

EV batteries so big they can power a house for three days

Energy retailers and the new energy future

Energy retailers and the new energy future

HORIZON 3023: How batteries offer owners and customers enormous opportunities to take part in the net zero transition

HORIZON 3023: How batteries offer owners and customers enormous opportunities to take part in the net zero transition

Megatrends, megawatts – How to switch the energy load

Megatrends, megawatts – How to switch the energy load

60 EV trucks – what happened with Team Global Express

60 EV trucks – what happened with Team Global Express

The challenge for industrial landlords in decarbonisation

The challenge for industrial landlords in decarbonisation

Driving the transport industry’s trucks and buses towards net zero

Driving the transport industry’s trucks and buses towards net zero

Electric vehicle fire risk in buildings: a data-driven view

Electric vehicle fire risk in buildings: a data-driven view

Breaking down the barriers

Breaking down the barriers

NEWS FROM THE FRONT (CONTINUED)

Philip Graus on how cities are shaped and how to shape them

Philip Graus on how cities are shaped and how to shape them

Data centres are sleeping giants and AI is making them wake up hungry

Data centres are sleeping giants and AI is making them wake up hungry

Flow Power’s new EV highway, London architects expands to Australia, Standards Australia’s new CEO

Flow Power’s new EV highway, London architects expands to Australia, Standards Australia’s new CEO

These 3 simple actions can save you money and help make the most of your rooftop solar

These 3 simple actions can save you money and help make the most of your rooftop solar

How to enjoy mass timber and CLT – a new-found love these young builders want to share

On why we’re all going to be very busy next year

On why we’re all going to be very busy next year

The brutal world of owners corporations – and how to get them to electrify apartments

The brutal world of owners corporations – and how to get them to electrify apartments

Video walkthrough: Dairy Road Canberra

Video walkthrough: Dairy Road Canberra

SPINIFEX – your views and ours

Supply chain clean up, aisle three

Supply chain clean up, aisle three

by Hannah Schuch, Wilderness Society (Australia)

On how to sweep things under the carpet end of year, but not why

On how to sweep things under the carpet end of year, but not why

by Tina Perinotto and The Fifth Estate – our view

On why we’re all going to be very busy next year

On why we’re all going to be very busy next year

by The Fifth Estate – our view

JOBS AND BIZ NEWS

Flow Power’s new EV highway, London architects expands to Australia, Standards Australia’s new CEO

Jobs and Biz News

Flow Power’s new EV highway, London architects expands to Australia, Standards Australia’s new CEO

Giant RSK Group snaps up Edge Impact – here’s why

Jobs and Biz News

Giant RSK Group snaps up Edge Impact – here’s why

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FEATURED

On a dark and stormy housing crisis – what they said at Let’s Hack Housing

Housing

On a dark and stormy housing crisis – what they said at Let’s Hack Housing

Imagine charging an entire bus wirelessly in just 6 minutes

Infrastructure & transport

Imagine charging an entire bus wirelessly in just 6 minutes

Dutton promises silver bullets and magical thinking to solve the housing crisis

Housing

Dutton promises silver bullets and magical thinking to solve the housing crisis

PODCASTS

Philip Graus on how cities are shaped and how to shape them

Podcasts

Philip Graus on how cities are shaped and how to shape them

Transitions podcast: Liam Wallis on how to generate radical sustainable development

Podcasts

Transitions podcast: Liam Wallis on how to generate radical sustainable development

CITIES & ENVIRONMENT

Creatives will move out of Sydney – here’s how to keep them

Urbanism

Creatives will move out of Sydney – here’s how to keep them

by Bevin Liu

For the love of Bondi – make it a benchmark, not a target

Spinifex

For the love of Bondi – make it a benchmark, not a target

by Joseph O'Donoghue

Imagine charging an entire bus wirelessly in just 6 minutes

Infrastructure & transport

Imagine charging an entire bus wirelessly in just 6 minutes

by Bevin Liu

Housing shouldn’t become the next culture war – what we need is good planning

Spinifex

Housing shouldn’t become the next culture war – what we need is good planning

by Matt Collins, Planning Institute of Australia

Building

Boral’s Berrima Cement Works claims new technology improves outcomes

Materials

Boral’s Berrima Cement Works claims new technology improves outcomes

by Bevin Liu and Tina Perinotto

‘Stop slamming the brakes’ the National Construction Code is working, says CoreLogic

Housing

‘Stop slamming the brakes’ the National Construction Code is working, says CoreLogic

by Bevin Liu

The catch 22 of the NSW Apartment Design Guide for solar access

Spinifex

The catch 22 of the NSW Apartment Design Guide for solar access

by Chris Johnson