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The Fifth Estate - True infrastructure sustainability starts at the foundation level, as demonstrated by the Selfs Point Sewage Treatment Plant expansion over challenging former landfill and soft alluvial soils. The carbon beneath our feet: a Hobart case

The Fifth Estate - For landlords striving for net-zero emissions, diverting organic waste from landfills seems like an obvious win - until complex Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) ownership rules dictate who actually gets to claim those carbon reducti

The Fifth Estate - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo warns that extreme heat is accelerating far faster than projected. Five years ago, urban planners predicted 20.5 tropical nights in Paris by 2050 - yet temperatures have already surpassed that benchmark a quarte

The Fifth Estate - Passion was the key theme of the week. Not unusual in this industry - as we all know it's packed with people who would be bored doing anything else. On passion, challenges and language is a story from The Fifth Estate, Australia's susta

The Fifth Estate - In Trauma Town, part 8, Philip Bull takes an irreverent look back at Sydney's local councils during the 1990s. Council Confidential: the stuff that went on and on is a story from The Fifth Estate, Australia's sustainability newspaper.

The Fifth Estate - My family has been developing property for two generations, and I cannot remember a time when it was harder to make a mid-rise apartment project work in Melbourne, write David Besser. Bathla is more than a collapse, it is a warning: a d

The Fifth Estate - My first real encounter with a genuinely inclusive space happened at the State Library of Queensland. Coming from a Middle Eastern country, a concept like inclusive urbanism had always felt to me more like a slogan than something tangib

The Fifth Estate - Letter to the editor: For sustainability advocates such as the TEC, the framework meets a much needed call for a structural approach to managing Sydney's rapid densification by prioritising green infrastructure, open space protection, a

The Fifth Estate - As more organisations prepare for mandatory climate reporting, your business needs to understand how to collect and share reliable emissions data. Learn how to bridge the emissions data gap for large organisations and SMEs is a story fr

The Fifth Estate - Why the housing shortfall has become a delivery problem, not only a planning one, and why offsite construction raises the stakes. The prefab factories were fine. The businesses were not. is a story from The Fifth Estate, Australia's sus