Jess Miller is well known to readers of The Fifth Estate - she’s been a brilliant and highly entertaining MC for several of our events now. Starting with our Urban Greening summits at the University of Technology Sydney in the past few years.
In the vibrant world of urban transformation, A New Normal has emerged as a groundbreaking initiative rooted in the vision of turning cities into producers rather than mere consumers.
Mathew Aitchison who heads up the Building 4.0 CRC has been advocating for a federal building minister for a while now. He also wants to rewrite the way we do construction in this country. After the CRC’s conference at Monash College at Melbourne’s Docklands this week, both those things look closer than ever.
Engineer Ross Harding thinks energy bills at an apartment block in Melbourne could come in at $2 a week after millions were spent on what is thought to be Australia's “first energy-plus retrofit”.