If more people work from home and shop online, many commercial buildings won’t be needed any longer. What will be needed is affordable housing, and these buildings can be converted to meet this need.
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Algorithms can now work out the best ways to lay out rooms, construct buildings and even change them over time to meet user needs.
COVID-19 is creating overwhelming needs for intensive care and testing facilities. An Australian team is developing purpose-built units that can be shipped and erected quickly, easily and cheaply.
Earth-covered houses are not only highly fire-resistant, but sustainable features such as off-grid power and water supplies could also be life-saving in a bushfire.
The problems of demolishing high-rise buildings in busy cities point to the need to prepare for unbuilding at the time of building. We’d then be much better placed to recycle building materials.
Ensuring a building will be safe against fire requires careful consideration from not only fire engineers, but also from builders, architects and building owners.
Planning controls in Melbourne were eased 20 years ago, with mixed results, and new limits are now in place. Will other cities that have eased height limits, like Adelaide, avoid the same mistakes?
Fires and building failures highlighted serious gaps in Australian building regulations. But recent revisions and recommendations still fall short of preparing our buildings for climate change.
Buildings are central to creating more sustainable cities, and green ratings are often used to assess how well a building measures up against this goal. But the current system has serious flaws.
Aged-care units can be a lottery of comfortable versus uncomfortable temperatures, depending on the building’s construction and where you live within it. That needs to improve.
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Lecturer in Architecture, Practice and Design, Swinburne University of Technology
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Adjunct professor of architecture, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
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Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Professor of Architectural Engineering, Al-Nahrain University
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Postdoctoral Scholar and Assistant Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
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Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Construction, RMIT University
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Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, School of Engineering, RMIT University
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Professor, Head of School, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer In Construction, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Construction Technology, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Healthy Ageing, Australian Catholic University
