Episode 51: Peter Hogg talks about the challenges of teaching design, post-COVID architecture and why work will never be the same
Peter Hogg is a practicing architect with more than 30 years experience in the field and is a foundational tutor and lecturer in the Bachelor of Built Environment program at Melbourne Polytechnic, whe...
9 Juli 202036min
Episode 50: Troy Creighton talks about the importance of making building materials in Australia, sustainability and smart drains
Troy Creighton is the managing director of Stormtech Grates & Drains who has some 31 years of working in the building materials industry. In 2004 Stormtech won a Design Mark at the Australian Design A...
22 Juni 202020min
Episode 49: Steve Fox from BIM Consulting & Sydney University talks about the huge impact data is having on the design profession
Steve Fox is an architect and the general manager and principal of BIM Consulting as well as a leading expert in BIM technology and on the impacts of technology on the construction process. After 15 y...
6 Juni 202034min
Episode 48: How COVID-19 has changed the built industry, why moving to green buildings now makes sense and should building products be manufactured onshore
We talk with executive director of the Suzanne Toumbourou, executive director of the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council and a judge for the 2020 Sustainability Awards about how the pande...
19 Maj 202024min
Episode 47: John Lorente discuses sustainability, the building industry, timber use in architecture and manufacturing building products in Australia
Big River Group began operations in the early 1900s as a family-owned timber business. Today, it has established its position as a major Australian building materials distributor, supplying an exten...
14 Maj 202021min
Episode 46: Kris Daff talks about why rent-with-the-option-to-buy is the smart way to address housing issues
Builder and developer Kris Daff is the managing director of two progressive building firms – the first is Make Ventures, a Melbourne-based property development and investment group focusing on large s...
9 Maj 202030min
Episode 45: Architect Jo Gillies on how social isolation will change who we are as people and as workers
This episode we talk with founder and owner of design firm Archisoul Architects Jo Gillies about what is really important in these days of lockdowns, social isolation and social distancing and how we ...
21 Apr 202028min
Episode 44: Architect and lecturer Sandra Furtado surveys our new work / life lockdown paradigm
Principal and director of Sydney-based architecture studio Furtado Sullivan Sandra Furtado talks about what it's like working as an architect under a lockdown situation with an economy that's in hiber...
7 Apr 202025min
