Existing buildings present the best opportunity for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in developed economies, given that only 2-3% of the building stock is newly built each year. Insights from a post-occupancy evaluation ...

Each state and territory within Australia has a regulatory body to oversee licensing in the construction industry. In New South Wales, individuals licensed under the Home Building Act 1989 are required to undertake Continuing ...

The ultimate goal of sonification is to transfer information effectively to listeners. While there is a large amount of multidisci- plinary investigation in the field of psychoacoustic, psychology, cognition and human ...

When an object or motif is universal, there is a tendency to trivialize it. This essay makes use of the French scholarly notion of the histoire des choses banales - everyday things - in order to elucidate a collection and ...

This article looks at the resonances between Walter Benjamin's writing on the bourgeois domestic interior, and Ernst Bloch's investigation of the detective novel. These resonances hinge on the evidence that the interior ...

Recurrent property taxation is an important revenue stream for sub-national governments around the world. In its various forms, land value as a base of recurrent taxation has become less common in many countries over the ...

This paper investigates gender disparity on several factors influencing the use ofkey scrv providers in building development. The data upon which the paper draws were collected questionnaires from a range of respondents, ...

In 1909 the Report of the Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and its Suburbs sadly concluded that the ‘irregular configuration of the foreshores of the harbour and the hilly character of the city’ ...

The genre of art and design criticism still revolves around the publication of carefully considered studies of individual practitioners and their work. Such writing inherits conventions and difficulties that are over a ...