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CSR Cemintel's BareStone pre-finished facade panel and fixing system was selected for use on Bernard Hockings' latest project - a 100 per cent self-sufficient eco house in Newcastle.
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Blinds from Ziptrak Pty Ltd are designed for safe and easy operation in indoor or outdoor environments.
Available from Locks Galore, CMI security safes come in various models to suit security storage needs in different environments.
DesignBUILD Melbourne opens at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre 27-29 June.
Joost Bakker, is a champion of sustainable building practices so it is no surprise that Plaspanel is is right at home in his pop-up restaurant.
The Weatherfold Series from Brio is recognised as the architectural standard for exterior folding door hardware.
Akril offers a great alternative to conventional glass shower walls and wall cladding for bathrooms with a unique range of acrylic panels.
Altro Safety Flooring launches customer-focused website with vastly improved interface, and many new features on Altro’s interactive website
Most of the talk (and action) of green design and eco architecture is premised on having a clean slate, a blank canvas, on which to conjure up more award winning, high star rating, icons of sustainable creativity. Yet the vast bulk of our buildings are already with us. Seven out of eight million Australian households live in existing separate houses and/or terrace/town houses. This is where the biggest bang for buck resides, if we really want to affect environmentally positive change. We need to swivel our focus onto our rather copious stock of energy inefficient brick veneer (and similar) homes. And eco retrofit them. Warren McLaren lists some "bolt-on" that require little or no renovation to an established dwelling, but will appreciably reduce the building's environmental impact and save on running costs.
They are synonymous with China, but courtyard houses - which, as the name suggests, are dwellings built around a central courtyard - are a much better fit for our harsh Australian environment according to architectural firm, Fratelle Group.
Schiavello has been acknowledged at the Master Builders 2012 Apprentice awards, winning two awards at the ceremony.
International ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings exhibition Cersaie, in Italy this September, will host a keynote lecture by Eduardo Souto De Moura, the Portuguese architect who won the Pritzker prize 2011.
