Green Infrastructure

Folia Apartments biodiversity planting throughout all balcony gardens (Image: Michael Casey)
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Biodiversity built for purpose

By Michael Casey

Global cities continue to develop at a rapid rate, and with an increase in size comes more people, more built structures, and in a lot of cases fewer green spaces for biodiversity to thrive. To counter the reduction of biodiversity, city planning needs to incorporate larger dedicated green areas rather than commonly creating small green spaces.Continue reading

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Solar panels integrated with green roof on Daramu House, Gadigal Land (Image: Lendlease)
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PV panels and green roof combinations are taking charge

By Michael Casey

Our cities are full of built structures with buildings of all shapes and sizes dominating our skylines, and they all have one thing in common – in most cases, they have an underutilised roof space.

Over the course of decades, roof spaces of all shapes and forms have been used to store HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) installations, and until recently, photovoltaic panels (PV).… Continue reading

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