by John McGee | Oct 12, 2026 | Building design trends
Australia’s university campuses provide an unusually rich record of how our buildings, and the expectations we place upon them, have changed. From nineteenth-century sandstone quadrangles and post-war concrete teaching blocks to contemporary research facilities,...
by John McGee | Sep 14, 2026 | Building design trends
An office can satisfy the requirements of the National Construction Code and still leave its occupants distracted, fatigued or struggling to concentrate. That isn’t necessarily a failure of the building regulations. It raises a different question: what do we...
by John McGee | Aug 4, 2026 | Legislation updates
The NSW Parliament has now passed the Building (Approvals and Practitioners) Bill 2026, paving the way for one of the most significant reforms of the State’s building approvals framework in more than a decade. The reforms will establish a new consolidated...
by John McGee | Jul 14, 2026 | NCC changes
The release of NCC 2025 has prompted a familiar response across the industry; a focus on what has changed, new provisions, updated thresholds, additional requirements, and so on. But for most projects, that is not where the real impact sits. The more important...
by John McGee | Mar 18, 2026 | MBC Group update
Accessibility in building design is often viewed as prescriptive, a matter of meeting gradients, clearances, circulation widths and fixture dimensions exactly as set out in the NCC and referenced standards. In many cases, that approach is entirely appropriate. The...
