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How to build a better world

The Fifth Estate

45 episodes

1 month ago

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...

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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...

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How to build a better world

John King on steel, windows and technology for 8 star homes

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...

3 weeks ago

50 minutes

How to build a better world

Dave Higgon: The power of social procurement to change lives

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...

3 weeks ago

49 minutes

How to build a better world

Martin Loosemore on making a difference through construction

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 ...

3 weeks ago

45 minutes

How to build a better world

Nathan Hage on transforming Zinc Apartment

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...

5 months ago

46 minutes

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Amanda Steele on pathways to success in sustainability

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...

8 months ago

36 minutes

How to build a better world

TFE Learn: Gabrielle McMillan on activating the vertical villages of office towers

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...

9 months ago

57 minutes

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Sara Stace and Marc Lane on Active transport and Placemaking

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...

10 months ago

47 minutes

How to build a better world

Jane Cassidy on the massive transformation on the way

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...

10 months ago

59 minutes

How to build a better world

Andrew Eagles on NZ’s green challenge in the new political regime

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...

10 months ago

50 minutes

How to build a better world

Philip Graus on how cities are shaped and how to shape them

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 PerinottoProduced by: The Fifth EstateThe Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.auSign up to the newsletter: https://thefifthestate.com.au/subscribe Support The Fifth Estate: thefifthestate.com.au/su...

1 year ago

1 hour 33 minutes

How to build a better world

Jeremy Mcleod and Nightingale Housing – from inspiration to disruption

Founder of Nightingale Housing Jeremy McLeod will no doubt go down in history as the man who managed to shift a truckload of preconceptions about what housing needs to look like – what it should cost and who it is for. Host: Tina PerinottoProduced by: The Fifth EstateThe Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.auSign 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-es...

1 year ago

1 hour 5 minutes

How to build a better world

Transitions podcast: Liam Wallis on how to generate radical sustainable development

Melbourne based Liam Wallis founded boutique sustainable developer Hip V Hype with the idea of spreading the sustainability message by demonstrating viable exemplar projects. Today that notion has evolved into advisory work with other developers and a raft of government authorities, as well as the direct educational events he likes to host from his offices in Melbourne’s inner northHost: Tina PerinottoProduced by: The Fifth EstateThe Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.auSign up to t...

1 year ago

1 hour

How to build a better world

TFE Live: The race for green tech in Australia and China

At TFE Live, Tim Buckley director of Climate Energy Finance, and Heidi Lee, chiefexecutive officer of Beyond Zero Emissions, delved deep into Australia’s potential as a global renewable energy superpower, how to transform our coal mining regions to clean energy and new jobs and how China is doing so much to decarbonise the planet.TFE Live Host: Maria AtkinsonTalents this episode: Tim Buckley and Heidi LeeHost: Tina PerinottoProduced by: The Fifth EstateThe Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthes...

1 year ago

1 hour 10 minutes

How to build a better world

Transitions podcast: Rory Hunter and Reade Dixon on innovative BTR

On this episode of Transitions, Tina Perinotto talks to Rory Hunter about the announcement of his first project, which will tick all boxes, including using CLT (cross-laminated timber), being Passivhaus certified and building to rent. He is joined by architect Reade Dixon from Frasers & Partners, who is tasked with turning the vision into reality. Host: Tina PerinottoProduced by: The Fifth EstateThe Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.auSign up to the newsletter: https://the...

1 year ago

48 minutes

How to build a better world

Tim Buckley on a clean tech in Australia and China and the need for partnership

Host: Tina PerinottoProduced by: The Fifth EstateThe Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.auSign 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 Twitter: @FifthEstateAUFacebook: www.facebook.com/thefifthestateAu

1 year ago

1 hour 22 minutes

How to build a better world

TFE Live: Global Trends and Tipping Points podcast

Good vibes were off the charts at our TFE Live event, brought on by Elena Bondareva, who’s on a changemaking arc following the release of her book Changemakers’ Handbook, her fellow guest Pablo Berrutti of Stuart Investors, whose passion project sustainable finance library Altiorem, and upbeat moderator Maria Atkinson. From the impacts of United States on Australia and the rest of the world, to role of AI in communicating sustainability to changemaking, the road to sustainability is, in fact,...

1 year ago

52 minutes

How to build a better world

Transitions podcast, Ep.2: Michael Mobbs on Sustainable House and coolseats

Tina Perinotto interviews Michael Mobbs, a sustainability guru who founded the sustainable house in Sydney's Chippendale. Host: Tina PerinottoProduced by: The Fifth EstateThe Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.auSign 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 Twitter: @FifthEstateAUFacebook: www.facebook.com/thefifthestateAu

1 year ago

42 minutes

How to build a better world

Alison Scotland on herding cats

Alison Scotland cut her professional teeth in the challenging world of Standards Australia.Today she runs the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council. So, you could say she’s had perfect training for the diplomatic minefield she now has to tread in her current job of getting agreement on built environment policy from a wide range of stakeholders. Host: Tina PerinottoProduced by: The Fifth EstateThe Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.auSign up to the newsletter: ht...

1 year ago

56 minutes

How to build a better world

Transitions podcast, Ep.1: Skipp Williamson from Partners in Performance

This is the first episode of the Transitions podcast for The Green List on The Fifth Estate’s How to Build a Better World podcast feed.We interview Skipp Williamson, managing director of Partners in Performance, who shares insights into what happens in advisory and energy transitions at the big end of town. Skipp has led the ambitious company she co-founded for more than 28 years and speaks to us just as it’s about to be acquired by giant Accenture. We’re joined on the podcast by partners fro...

1 year ago

46 minutes

How to build a better world

Jess Miller on doing things differently

Jess Miller is well known to readers of The Fifth Estate - she’s been a brilliant and highly entertaining MC for several of our events now. Starting with our Urban Greening summits at the University of Technology Sydney in the past few years.But of course Jess has a much wider audience than ours. At a very young age, she became a councillor and then deputy mayor of The City of Sydney and then became a prime initiator in a green or living infrastructure movement called Greener Spaces Better Pl...

1 year ago

1 hour 2 minutes