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Commercial Resource Information Buildings Alive Buildings Alive helps you extract the hidden value from your building or facilities without major capital investment. Your commercial buildings – offices, shopping centres or…

Meet the speakers

The Fifth Estate
11 July, 2019

Here’s a list of our fabulous speakers at Happy Healthy Offices19

Monash delivers biggest passive house building

The Fifth Estate
29 May, 2019

Melbourne’s Monash University has just delivered a major first – Australia’s largest passive house building and the first multi-residential passive house structure to be constructed from cross laminated timber. Gillies…

Melbourne’s Monash University is in a good position to become a “living laboratory” for sustainable, zero carbon, micro-grid innovation.

Charter Hall on what today’s universities want and how to deliver it

The Fifth Estate
29 April, 2019

At Western Sydney University in Parramatta, Charter Hall is forging an exciting asset class that delivers the very best in flexible, well located educational space for universities plus their choice…

1PSQ at Parramatta is drawing the crowds

The Fifth Estate
25 April, 2019

“Agnostic” is not a word often used to describe buildings, but it’s the favourite of Woods Bagot’s Georgia Singleton in relation to the Charter Hall/University of Western Sydney’s 14 storey…

When Dr Rocio Bona, planning director, properties, facilities & development at Curtin University was tasked with developing an energy management plan for the university, she asked the obvious question, “I…

The Fifth Estate

Resource guide

Meet the speakers

Monash delivers biggest passive house building

Monash University’s “living laboratory” for zero carbon, micro-grid innovation

Charter Hall on what today’s universities want and how to deliver it

1PSQ at Parramatta is drawing the crowds

Curtin University: Living Campus brings real-time data to students, academics and facilities managers

Introduction to Reloved Buildings

Re-loved warehouses: creative, cool and in demand

Apartments: how to get help for your strata committee

Energy efficiency’s big secret: a major retrofit of performance can be surprisingly affordable

Engineering reloved buildings: The inside story

Sam Marshall and Jean Rice on how to re-love a building

The hidden value of old buildings

Snapshots: Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai; Knai Bang Chatt Resort, Kep; Omnia, Sydney and more

Long life, loose fit, low impact: Playing the long game on sustainable buildings

The triple bottom-line benefits of adaptive re-use of heritage buildings