Australia's National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development endorses the establishment of taxation systems that take into account the social and environmental costs of resource use. In the context of the ...

The fiction of terra nullius is addressed in Mabo & Ors v The State of Queensland (No 2)(Mabo) (1992) 175 CLR 1, however the increasing commodification of water has raised the issue of whether a new form of indigenous ...

Vitruvius’ text, De architectura, described the practice of architecture and urban strategies for the late Roman Republic. Later use of the text and its messages, emerging with the growing impact of printing on specific ...

Although DIY products and systems were developed to help non-professionals, they can also enable professionals to experiment with different methods of creating buildings and spaces. DIY approaches allow people to change ...

This paper proposes that the project management discipline would benefit from the findings of practitioners who conduct research into their own practice. Project management researchers associated with a UK government-funded ...

This paper will explore the use of the graphical user interface as art, product and inspiration, drawing on my own practice as a digital image maker and installation artist, and a theoretical investigation of digital ...

The New South Wales (NSW) residential development sector is growing rapidly and it is the driving force behind the growth in new housing. According to the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources ...

More than half of building energy consumption in the industrialised world is used for cooling, heating and lighting. In Australia, 86 per cent of total commercial building energy use is in these three areas. The purpose ...

Auditory gestures are sound signals that represent spatially located information that can be stored or accessed by human gestural interaction in space. This document presents initial work to develop a model of auditory ...

This paper provides an overview of the Australian Quantity Surveying profession in Australia. The paper will start with an overview of the Australian Construction Industry and Quantity Surveying Profession generally and ...