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HDR's Alison Potter & Simon Fleet Talk About Opacity, Collaborative Design & Data Centers
HDR's annual global design review, Opacity. Design Principals Simon Fleet and Alison Potter recently joined the Architecture & Design podcast to delve into HDR’s annual global design review initiative, Opacity. In this engaging and thought-provoking conversation, they explore how architecture can respond to today’s increasingly complex challenges with care, precision, and ingenuity.
Terrible Headaches? Virtual Care Can Help
Most of us get the occasional headache, whether from not enough sleep, too much screen time, or many other reasons. For some people, chronic headaches can cause disabling symptoms, making it hard to complete daily tasks or even to get out of bed. The two most common types of headaches are tension-type headaches and migraine attacks.
Beyond Intuition: Designing for Complexity in Our Cities
October 22, 2025 As our cities grow denser, more connected, and increasingly layered with social, environmental, and technological demands, the task of designing them has become increasingly complex, and intuition alone can no longer keep pace. Today, data-driven design is transforming architecture, engineering, and construction by equipping multidisciplinary teams to make sense of urban complexity.
Collaborative partnerships to improve E‐Learning design: Enhancing information skills training for the healthcare workforce
Information skills training is a key element of the role of health care knowledge and library specialists. Pre-pandemic in 2018–19, NHS knowledge and library staff in England delivered 18,576 information skills sessions. These were attended by around 60,000 health care staff. As expected, these figures dipped in the intervening years but are now rising again.
Explainer: Which Australian states offer the best incentives to buy EVs?
Wiebe Wakker drives a converted electric Gold across Australia. Supplied There are still no federal incentives, or any policies at all to encourage the uptake of electric vehicles, but Australia’s states and territories are starting to put in a lot of effort to lay the groundwork for the anticipated shift to EVs and trying to drag the country out of the slow lane in the electric transition.
Explainer: What happens to old wind turbines?
The wind turbine rotating gracefully on the ridge line has long been the iconic image of carbon free, renewable power. But on the horizon (just beyond that ridge) is a problem that could put a sizeable dent in the wind industry’s clean, sleek image. By 2050, it’s estimated that 43 million tonnes of decommissioned turbine blades will reach their end of life and need to be managed through the global waste stream.
Explainer: Six ways to drive down the up-front cost of buying an EV
The Driven For most of us in Australia electric vehicles remain prohibitively expensive. Here are some options that may reduce that initial hefty outlay so you can join the clean transport revolution sooner. Green vehicle finance Some banks and lending institutions offer car loans for low emissions vehicles with a discount on their standard loan rate of anywhere up to 1%.
Explainer: What is a big battery and what can it do?
Big batteries or ‘grid-scale’ batteries are a versatile, cost competitive and exciting new technology changing the landscape of Australia’s electricity grid. A big battery is made up of rows of chemical (usually lithium ion) batteries installed together and connected to the grid via inverters. Big batteries are often located near a renewable energy generator as they help smooth out the variable output of wind and solar.
Explainer: Solar inverters have a new, important role to play - are you affected?
One Step Off The Grid Through the introduction of new standards to come into effect on December 18 2021, electricity grid operator AEMO wants to harness the collective capability of inverters, through new operational settings, to help manage and secure the electricity system and distribution networks. Do I need to upgrade my existing inverter? If you’ve already installed solar, it won’t affect you as it only applies to inverters installed after December 18.
Explainer: Solar inverters have a new, important role to play – are you affected? | One Step Off The Grid
Through the introduction of new standards to come into effect on December 18 2021, electricity grid operator AEMO wants to harness the collective capability of inverters, through new operational settings, to help manage and secure the electricity system and distribution networks. Do I need to upgrade my existing inverter? If you’ve already installed solar, it won’t affect you as it only applies to inverters installed after December 18.
Power Ledger’s Jemma Green says distributed energy resource assets can create grid stability and earn money
Power Ledger’s Dr Jemma Green sees conditions firming for an Australian energy market that will accommodate large proportions of renewables, create income for distributed energy resource (DER) owners and facilitate stability in the grid. The Fifth Estate spoke to Green in the wake of the energy trading platform’s announcement that it is undertaking a live peer-to peer solar trading project in Delhi with major Indian power utility Tata Power-DDL.
How rooftop solar owners are saving more while #stayinghome
One Step Off The Grid Good news! – Solar owners are saving more while #stayinghome because of COVID-19 #Stayinghome means we’re opening the fridge door every 20 minutes, flicking on the kettle, cooking lunches, boiling noodles, baking cakes, streaming shows, leaf blowing, hedge trimming and we’re all on devices. No longer is our workplace paying for the air-con or the coffee machine. On the bright side, the iron and hairdryer are taking a break. Are we using more electricity?
How solar owners are saving more while #stayinghome
Solar Analytics Good news! – Solar owners are saving more while #stayinghome because of COVID-19 #Stayinghome means we’re opening the fridge door every 20 minutes, flicking on the kettle, cooking lunches, boiling noodles, baking cakes, streaming shows, leaf blowing, hedge trimming and we’re all on devices. No longer is our workplace paying for the air-con or the coffee machine. On the bright side, the iron and hairdryer are taking a break. Are we using more electricity?
How much does smoke haze affect rooftop solar production?
One Step off The Grid Solar owners in smoke affected areas, particularly those who’ve been sheltering in air conditioned homes more than usual, might be wondering how well their rooftop systems are performing under the haze. Solar monitoring company Solar Analytics has found that rooftop PV systems in Sydney and Canberra saw PV output plummet by 15 – 45% on heavy smoke haze days. Solar Analytics monitors the energy consumption and solar PV performance of 35,000 sites across Australia.
How much does smoke haze affect rooftop solar production?
Solar owners in smoke affected areas, particularly those who’ve been sheltering in air conditioned homes more than usual, might be wondering how well their rooftop systems are performing under the haze. Solar monitoring company Solar Analytics has found that rooftop PV systems in Sydney and Canberra saw PV output plummet by 15 – 45% on heavy smoke haze days. Solar Analytics monitors the energy consumption and solar PV performance of 35,000 sites across Australia.
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