by John McGee | Aug 23, 2023 | Building industry trends
Preserving the past while embracing the future – a delicate balance that adaptive reuse of heritage buildings seeks to achieve. In an era of rapid urbanisation and evolving architectural preferences, repurposing historic structures for new functions has gained...
by John McGee | Jul 25, 2023 | MBC Group update
According to a recent AIBS survey, private building surveying firms and local governments across Australia say they are struggling to recruit building surveyors, and this is creating a backlog of work across all types of buildings under construction. So, we’re...
by John McGee | Jun 21, 2023 | Building design trends
If you take the time to look closely at Australia’s city landscapes you will find a patchwork of construction sites, closed footpaths and barriers such as parked vehicles. They are probably minor inconveniences for many, but these random obstacles to our everyday...
by John McGee | May 23, 2023 | Livable cities and reforms
“We are in the middle of the century of cities – the hundred years of accelerated urbanisation from 1980 to 2080 that is creating a majority-urban planet.” (source: Greater Cities Commission and The Business of Cities research report ‘Greater Cities: The Global...
by John McGee | Apr 28, 2023 | Building design trends
The extraordinary growth in data centres over the past decade is set to accelerate to meet rising demand as Australia heads off into the cloud. The increasingly digital and interconnected world has created a huge appetite for data storage and processing at speed,...
