• SUBSCRIBE
  • SUPPORT US
  • Buildings
    • Architecture
    • Case Studies
    • Commercial
    • Construction & Development
    • Engineering/Technology
    • Facilities management
    • Housing
    • hospitals, health, aged care
    • Planning & Design
    • Industrial
    • Retail
  • Business & Politics
    • Jobs News
    • Finance
    • Funding & grants
    • Government/Regulations
    • Indigenous Business Series
    • Investment/deals/companies
    • Public/social/ethical
  • Cities & Environment
    • Urbanism
    • Environment
    • Climate Change
    • Infrastructure & transport
    • Rural & Regional
    • Energy
      • Energy
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • News from the Front Desk
    • Spinifex
  • Library
    • Ebooks & Special Reports
    • Podcasts
  • What’s On
  • The Green List
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin
  • Buildings
    • Architecture
    • Case Studies
    • Commercial
    • Construction & Development
    • Engineering/Technology
    • Facilities management
    • Housing
    • hospitals, health, aged care
    • Planning & Design
    • Industrial
    • Retail
  • Business & Politics
    • Jobs News
    • Finance
    • Funding & grants
    • Government/Regulations
    • Indigenous Business Series
    • Investment/deals/companies
    • Public/social/ethical
  • Cities & Environment
    • Urbanism
    • Environment
    • Climate Change
    • Infrastructure & transport
    • Rural & Regional
    • Energy
      • Energy
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • News from the Front Desk
    • Spinifex
  • Library
    • Ebooks & Special Reports
    • Podcasts
  • What’s On
  • The Green List
Skip to content
The Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate

Green buildings and sustainable cities – news and views

Support us

Tag: housing

coliving friends playing game
Posted inHousing

Coliving – a Millennial utopia or another sharing economy cash grab?

by Poppy Johnston 3 October 20193 October 2019
Posted inSpinifex

Load shifting could be the best way to unlock solar’s financial power

by Pete Neal, Powerpal 12 September 201912 September 2019
Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne at Marrickville Library
Posted inArchitecture

Hospital beds to book shelves: Designing the new Marrickville Library

by Poppy Johnston 12 September 2019
Richard Wynne at construction site with two men
Posted inConstruction & Development

Victoria tackles flammable cladding: safety “fix” or confidence trick?

by Anne Paten 29 August 201913 September 2019
passive house exterior trees, Thornleigh
Posted inArticles

NSW gets its first Certified Passive House homes

by Poppy Johnston 27 August 201928 August 2019
Ori living
Posted inHousing

Robotic beds on ceilings and other space-busting solutions from Silicon Valley

by Poppy Johnston 27 August 201927 August 2019
girl in house
Posted inHousing

The rise of solo households and how our cities need to adapt

by Poppy Johnston 20 August 201925 August 2019
Posted inHousing

Planning for fire safety in the ACT

by Willow Aliento 8 August 201914 August 2019
London developers fighting the construction industry Brexit blues
Posted inConstruction & Development

London developers fighting the construction industry Brexit blues

by David Thorpe 8 August 20198 August 2019
Posted inArchitecture

HESTA backs Nightingale Village project

by Poppy Johnston 6 August 20199 August 2019
Parliament House Canberra
Posted inGovernment/Regulations

Five important ways the federal leadership could show leadership

by Gabriel Metcalf, Committee for Sydney 18 July 201918 July 2019
light rail sydney
Posted inPlanning

A response to Posh Sydney: People want shared amenities close to transport

by Chris Johnson, NSW Urban Taskforce.  13 June 201917 June 2019
illegal housing
Posted inHousing

Informal and illegal housing on the rise as our cities fail to offer affordable places to live

by Nicole Gurran, Madeleine Pill and Sophia Maalsen, University of Sydney 30 April 20191 May 2019
2011 Queensland flood
Posted inClimate Change

How to avoid a climate flood disaster – a hypothetical says it’s very difficult

by Poppy Johnston 24 April 201929 April 2019
Posted inHousing

What Peter Dutton and the building industry need to know about housing for all

by Julia Grove 18 April 201922 April 2019
Adrian Harrington
Posted inHousing

AHURI’s new chair wants to boost private sector influence

by Poppy Johnston 16 April 201917 April 2019
3D printed homes
Posted inHousing

3D printed homes at scale one step closer to reality

by Poppy Johnston 21 March 2019
Posted inJobs News

Department of Family and Community Services: Environmental Sustainability Analyst

by Advertisement 5 March 20196 March 2019
Australia election
Posted inGovernment/Regulations

Election fever and what we need to know about the minor parties

by Julia Grove 28 February 20194 March 2019
passive house design
Posted inHousing

Passive House and three deep dives: Phil Harris, Erwin Boermans, Daniel Kress

by Julia Grove 21 February 20197 February 2022
solar
Posted inHousing

No-strings solar finds fortune in building partnerships

by David Thorpe 20 February 201921 February 2019
Karuna House
Posted inSpinifex

The case for passive homes as a national standard

by Nick Lane, Passive Place 14 February 20191 March 2019
Posted inHousing

Low income renters can expect to keep paying higher bills and suffer the consequences as bill is defeated

by Willow Aliento 7 February 201912 February 2019
Posted inHousing

Ways to keep cool without costing the planet Part 1: Passive cooling

by David Thorpe 7 February 201913 February 2019
fire truck outside Neo200
Posted inMaterials

The building mess: ministers are meeting – we’re all looking at you now

by Willow Aliento 5 February 20195 February 2019
opal tower sydney Simon Clancy
Posted inHousing

Reflections on the Opal Tower crisis in Sydney

by Mark Singer, Shelter NSW 24 January 201930 January 2019
Graphene stars in Passivhaus retrofit of Victorian townhouses
Posted inHousing

Graphene stars in Passivhaus retrofit of Victorian townhouses

by David Thorpe 22 January 201925 January 2019
Posted inHousing

Microsoft invests $500 million in affordable housing in its home town

by Poppy Johnston 22 January 201922 January 2019
Posted inHousing

The truth about dark roofs and cool roofs

by David Thorpe 19 December 201821 January 2019
Impact real estate in 2019: Precincts and partnerships
Posted inPlanning

Impact real estate in 2019: Precincts and partnerships

by Dr Erin Castellas and James Fitzgerald, Impact investment Group 18 December 201816 January 2019

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3 4 … 6 Older posts

Trending

  • Transforming embodied carbon in materials – the fast way
  • Nikola Tesla dreamed of free electricity; what happened?
  • Metricon Homes founder Mario Biasin passes aged 71
  • Vicinity unlocks a big green opportunity beyond the mall at Box Hill
  • “Even the government is ringing up engineers and offering substantial salary increases” The pressure is on Albo to fix our infrastructure
  • On our “frightening” future: how this election shows young people are taking back their voice
  • Want more cycling, e-bikes and scooters? It’s time to start asking the right questions
  • Mike Cannon-Brookes loves renewable energy but he’s making the built environment feel like Cinderella
  • Investa future-proofs its portfolio by setting 100 per cent green finance target by 2025
  • Wheelie popular: E-bikes take charge of the roads
  • About Us
  • Terms of Use
    • Editorial submissions
    • Privacy Policy
    • Code of conduct
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise with us
  • Jobs
  • My account
© 2022 The Fifth Estate. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin