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How to Build a Better World is The Fifth Estate's podcast about creating a future all humans can be proud of. Tina Perinotto, editor of Australia’s premium publication for sustainable property and business, talks to the people on the frontline with the power to address the big ecological, social and financial problems of our time.
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In this episode of the How to Build a Better World podcast, The Fifth Estate's managing editor Tina Perinotto sat down with Sarah Ratcliffe, CEO of the Better Buildings Partnership, to pick her brains over several hot topics facing the real estate sector in the UK. BBP UK is a collaboration of major property owners in the UK with 51 members holding around £280 billion (A$493) worth of assets under management – so when this group turns its attention to energy efficiency and sustainability you...
On this latest episode of How to Build a Better World, our managing editor Tina Perinotto talks to Mathew Nelson – the first Oceania chief sustainability officer at EY – about what’s getting big Fortune 500 companies ticking on the climate question. For someone at the big end of town, leading the sustainability team at a company that’s 300,000 strong globally, he’s remarkably down to earth and happy to share practical insights into the big questions around our transition to low or zero carbon...
NEW PODCAST: On this latest episode of How to Build a Better World, our managing editor, Tina Perinotto, spoke with Paul King from Bentley about how new technology like building information models (BIMs) and digital twins can help designers and engineers make better choices about building design and maintenance. It’s an exciting world that is starting to look a bit like the sci-fi image we read about in stories about gaming or fiction. A parallel universe in cyberspace that we can – hop...
In our latest podcast, our managing editor, Tina Perinotto, spoke with Alan Pears about how he got started in the sustainability and energy efficiency space, and the “big challenge ahead of us”. Alan Pears is probably Australia’s favourite, most trusted and reliable “go-to” authority on energy efficiency. And no wonder. He’s been around since the dawn of the environmental movement in the 1970s and initiated many of its big leaps forward. While a lot has changed since then, Alan’s...
In our latest podcast, our managing editor, Tina Perinotto, spoke with Ainsley Simpson all about the surprising world of green infrastructure. Ainsley Simpson is the chief executive officer of the Infrastructure Sustainability Council (ISC), a member-based peak body that's purpose-driven, ensuring all infrastructure delivers social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits. At The Fifth Estate we’ve long been fascinated by the infrastructure sector – with some conflicting tensions pla...
In our latest podcast, our managing editor, Tina Perinotto, spoke with Dan Hill all about his new role at Melbourne University’s School of Design. Dan Hill’s got a bit of a fan club in Australia. So there was no surprise that the announcement in April that he was to be director was well received. (No pressure, Dan.) It’s a job that’s lured him back to Oz after more than 10 years away, during which his City of Sound blog kept tabs on his projects in Scandinavia, the UK and Italy. M...
On our latest podcast, our managing editor, Tina Perinotto, spoke with Dr Tyson Yunkaporta about his recent book, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World. The Apalech clan member is a deep and wide thinker, an academic and poet who dabbles in traditional wood carving. He’s innovative, provocative, and pulls no punches when he’s talking about the impact of white settlers on this land and on Australia’s Indigenous People. As a senior research fellow at Deakin Univers...
On our latest podcast, our managing editor, Tina Perinotto, spoke with Beck Dawson, who has been Sydney’s chief resilience officer since 2015. Her role basically involves worrying about the potential disasters that might befall Australia’s biggest city, and how to build resilience in the community… just in case. It’s a big job. In Beck’s case it involves 33 councils in Sydney as well as state government, business and the community, and plenty of links to resilience experts in other cities a...
On our latest podcast, our managing editor, Tina Perinotto, spoke with energy efficiency expert Dr Paul Bannister. Last year, the physicist was awarded the James Harrison Medal, which is the highest honour bestowed by AIRAH, Australia’s body for the HVAC industry. Few people know more about energy efficient buildings than Dr Paul Bannister, who was one of the original architects behind the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS). Paul headed up his company Exergy fo...
Infrastructure work is going regional – in water, sanitation, roads and bridges – says Kaushik Chakraborty senior vice president, Asia Pacific & Japan with Bentley Systems in this podcast. It’s part of the big global drift out of cities and into towns and smaller cities that was bolstered by Covid. The trend is reversing the previous super trend that had captured demographers for decades. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.a...
John King from JGKing Homes Steel, timber, windows and technology to build home. John runs a successful home building business in Ballarat that’s been going for 40 years and employs 350 people. What’s different about it is that it uses steel construction that it fabricates to specifications, and it also manages to produce 8 star NatHERS homes without many issues and virtually no extra costs. The secret is high quality windows and window frames materials that break the thermal bridge, that all...
Martin Loosemore, professor of construction management is known for his Community of Practice for social procurement, which he started with his colleague Dr Suhair Alkilani at the University of Technology Sydney. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsletter: https://thefifthestate.com.au/subscribe Support The Fifth Estate: thefifthestate.com.au/support-us LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-fifth-estate ...
After 30 years Dave Higgon reckons he’s the longest serving employee relations manager in Australia. He started his career as a bricklayer for his father, before taking up small subcontracting work on the New South Wales north coast and into Queensland. In the early 80s, Higgon became an organiser for the Building Workers Industrial Union, where he developed a strong interest in social justice issues, then joined Multiplex, where he “inherited” responsibility for dealing with social pro...
Nathan Hage is neither a developer nor an energy expert, nor anything else you might think would be crucial to retrofitting a group of 45 flats in Sydney’s inner south with solar and EV charging. He works in logistics, but the one qualifier that he firmly holds is that he’s a resident of the Zinc Apartments, and perhaps through his enthusiasm, the job fell to him to manage this ambitious project. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthe...
Amanda Steele is group executive, head of property for ISPT, a business with a strong sustainability profile in the built environment. In her current role, Amanda is in the leadership team; but in the past she’s had direct sustainability roles at Stockland and CBRE and before that under the mentorship of our current Governor General Sam Mostyn when they were both at insurer IAG. In this podcast, Amanda talks about the drivers of ESG, the success of ISPT’s retrofit of 500 Bourke Street...
Gabrielle McMillan kicked off Equiem in 2011 for Lorenz Grollo, developer and part owner of the Rialto tower in Melbourne who could see the enormous potential of adding value for occupants in the building through technology and social programs to create a kind of village in the sky, that made tenants sticky. Other people agreed. Today the business has blossomed and employs nearly 200 people over 18 Countries. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: w...
Sara Stace is an influential voice in the active transport and placemaking space. Recently she joined forces with Marc Lane at Vivendi Consulting to becomes its new joint directors of cities. Stace and Lane met at WSP, where the two shared an immense passion for designing for cities and streets. Stace and Lane are now working on housing strategies, active transport, net zero and urban design and policies that helps shape cities and precincts. Tune in to hear their insights on the good...
As national president of the Australian Institute of Architects Jane Cassidy juggles a lot of competing priorities – and they’re not all in the order you’d expect. There are the usual topics of aesthetics and the role of architects and how it’s been eroded over the past decades. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsletter: https://thefifthestate.com.au/subscribe Support The Fifth Estate: t...
Andrew Eagles, CEO of the New Zealand Green Building Council reports on an industry that wants to do better, wants green buildings and better regulation. This conversation is a breath of fresh air. Listen now! Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsletter: https://thefifthestate.com.au/subscribe Support The Fifth Estate: thefifthestate.com.au/support-us LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-fifth...
Philip Graus has an omnibus cache of insights and history into how cities are formed, what keeps them growing or failing and how to make them sustainable. This podcast is a bit of rambling chat, weaving in and out the incredible number of influences that make a city tick – or not. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsletter: https://thefifthestate.com.au/subscribe Support The Fifth Estate: thefifthestate.co...
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