Bio. Martijn Wilder is Founder and CEO of Pollination. He is the chair of the Australian government’s National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC), and chair of the Governing Board of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) based in Vienna.

Sep 19, 2024 · We have the large behemoth councils of Brisbane (1.32 million population), Gold Coast (647,000) and Moreton Bay (460,000) all the way to the Shire of Peppermint Grove in Western Australia with its 1524 residents covering 1.4 square kilometres, the smallest local government area in the land.

The Fifth Estate is an online newspaper for the sustainable built environment.

Dec 12, 2024 · Join Tina Perinotto, managing editor of The Fifth Estate, in a leisurely walkthrough of Molonglo Group’s inspiring Dairy Road Project - an innovative precinct that adaptively reused and transformed an industrial depot into a vibrant, thriving and creative community.

Nov 12, 2024 · Other early followers, too, must have been charmed by McLeod’s notion to throw several regular concepts of development out the window and get as close to a disruptive model of housing as it’s possible to get in this lugubrious industry, weighed down as it is with habit, history and, in one case, pesky neighbours who objected to the lack of parking on site.

Jan 23, 2025 · He said all projects would be designed and delivered with an eye to long-term value, with AXA IM Alts stipulating design for full electrification, 100 per cent renewable energy supply and a minimum 5 star Green Star Buildings certification and an average 7.5-star NatHERS home energy rating.

Aug 1, 2024 · The team behind the data base is the Materials Working group of the Australian Architects Declare collective, which was formed in 2019 to address the climate and biodiversity emergency and which now has more than 1300 members in Australia.

Nov 28, 2023 · Among the accolades is that the tower at 435 Bourke Street in the Melbourne CBD will be one of the first in the world to use a solar skin façade and first in Victoria to use hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO100) renewable diesel.

Feb 4, 2025 · Property linked finance, has already been proved in three Australian states. It is now gaining momentum as a transformative finance tool that could enable both new, highly efficient homes and enable millions of existing inefficient houses to become the homes Australians deserve.

Mar 28, 2023 · From 2001 to 2021, Australia lost 8.73Mha of tree cover, equivalent to a 21 per cent decrease in tree cover since 2000, and 2.40Gt of CO?e emissions, according to Global Forest Watch. You can view the full report here.. While Australia’s deforestation rate is concerning, the 2015-2020 figures represent a 33 per cent reduction on the 626,200 hectares that was cleared between 1990 and 2000.