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...