The Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate stands as Australia’s premier business publication dedicated to the sustainable built environment, along with the individuals and topics that shape it. We deliver daily updates, insights, and resources through our website, newsletters, ebooks, webinars, and various events.

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Crisafulli you still have time to save face, save the Green Olympics and save Brissie’s fabulous emerging brand

3 weeks ago | thefifthestate.com.au | Tina Perinotto

COMMENT: Australia had the world’s first green Olympics. It lifted the nation, and this industry in particular, in so many ways. It galvanised innovation, put Australian property ambition and capability on the global map. It probably contributed to the euphoria of those heady Olympic days, even for people who were not at all sports obsessed.
Marcus Foth, Author at The Fifth Estate

3 weeks ago | thefifthestate.com.au | Skye Doherty |Marcus Foth |Nick Kelly |Greg Hearn

Marcus Foth is Professor of Urban Informatics in the QUT Design Lab and a Chief Investigator in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Marcus is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts.
Karl-Heinz Weiss has spent an entire career on MMC - here’s a brief insight into what he’s learnt

1 month ago | thefifthestate.com.au | Tina Perinotto

Karl-Heinz Weiss has been advising on a new prefab factory at Orange, 260 kilometres west Sydney. If all goes to plan this latest foray into modern methods of construction will be able to contribute around 2500 houses to solve the housing crisis. But this is an industry that’s been on a rocky road. Weiss, former head of Lendlease’s DesignMake business will share his views on the challenges and opportunities of MMC at The Fifth Estate’s leaders forum next Tuesday.
The madness of strata - for too many people

1 month ago | thefifthestate.com.au | Tina Perinotto

Delving into the strata world is like taking the wrong turn down the rabbit hole of building related trauma, which is bad enough, then discovering a whole new group of people living under the radar, struggling to find their way out. This post is only available to members.
All’s fair in love, war - and a housing crisis

1 month ago | thefifthestate.com.au | Tina Perinotto

Australia’s obsession with housing in this country is legendary. It goes to the very heart of the national psyche and comes partly from our immigrant roots. But in the past few years, something happened to snap the back of that formula. This post is only available to members.
What the audience wanted to know at the leaders forum with Matt Kean and Martijn Wilder

1 month ago | thefifthestate.com.au | Samantha Marshall

There was no shortage of questions from the audience at our first leaders forum on 4 March with speakers Matt Kean, chair of the Climate Change Authority and Martijn Wilder, founder of Pollination. They came thick and fast, managed by the indefatigable Rachel Alembakis of U Ethical.
TODs and olds: a perfect match or a missed opportunity?

1 month ago | thefifthestate.com.au | Jialing Xie |Rebecca McLaughlan |Ian Woodcock

Governments are all on board the transit oriented development train, and NSW is ahead, being the first to focus on housing for seniors. But without a clear vision, we may miss the opportunity altogether. Transit oriented development (TOD) is a key focus of many Australian state governments, yet NSW is the first state to formally integrate seniors’ housing into the TOD policy.
Ian Woodcock, The University of Sydney

1 month ago | thefifthestate.com.au | Magnus Moglia |Jialing Xie |Rebecca McLaughlan |Ian Woodcock

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Jialing Xie, University of Sydney

1 month ago | thefifthestate.com.au | Jialing Xie |Rebecca McLaughlan |Ian Woodcock

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Why NatHERS and Scorecard need to co-exist

1 month ago | thefifthestate.com.au | Tina Perinotto

The phones were running hot. Not everyone was happy about the new NatHERS tool for existing homes that’s expected to be the precursor for mandatory disclosure of energy efficiency in the massive residential sector of our economy. In the commercial sector mandatory disclosure of energy efficiency in offices at the point of sale or lease was a game changer. “You can’t manage what you can’t measure” said countless influencers.