by John McGee | Aug 25, 2025 | Building design trends
As the world’s appetite for digital connectivity grows, the physical infrastructure behind it, the data centre, has become one of the most critical elements of modern society. In Australia, this transformation is being shaped not only by global trends in AI, cloud...
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 | 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,...
by John McGee | Mar 17, 2023 | Building design trends
If we set aside whether towers are the best or only way to densify our cities, it is safe to say there is a growing body of evidence that many of our learning centres are heading in the same direction of travel. As building surveyors we have seen a proliferation of...
by John McGee | Aug 24, 2022 | Building design trends, Building industry trends
How MBC Group adds value for our clients in what was once ‘the humble fitout’, which has become a substantial sub-set of the overall construction market and forms an important workflow for our business. MBC Group business purpose Our purpose is to ensure a better...
by John McGee | Jul 22, 2022 | Building design trends, NCC changes
We want to discuss how our business purpose, ‘ensuring a better built environment’, intrinsically links MBC Group to the process of design and construction, putting building compliance at the intersection of regulators, investors, planners, architects, developers,...
