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Jump Start Your 2025 Awards Success
With the festive season upon us and a naturally quieter period in January, it's the perfect time to get a head start on those award submissions. There's an exciting array of programs open for entries, and we'd love to help you shine!
Tasmania State Budget Summary
Tamania’s Treasurer, Michael Ferguson, delivered the 2024-2025 State Budget last week, with a strong infrastructure focus. Titled “Delivering the 2030 Strong Plan for Tasmania’s Future”, the budget includes a hefty $5.1 billion infrastructure investment, topping the previous budget's commitment by $800 million. This includes funding for roads and bridge projects, recreation and culture facilities, education facilities, health projects, housing, and justice/police/emergency projects.
Draft NSW Building Bill 2024 Explainer
The New South Wales 2024-25 Budget, handed down by Treasurer Daniel Mookhey on 18 June, features a strong housing focus alongside key infrastructure spending. An investment of $119.4 billion over four years is committed to supporting NSW’s growing communities via the Essential Infrastructure Plan, which covers Social Housing, Roads and Transport, Health, Education, Water and Planning.
Decoding Social Procurement
At New Doors, we are developing a Social Procurement Kit designed to help you understand the drivers behind these new tendering requirements and how you can start to engage with them on your own terms.
New South Wales 2024 Budget - Quick guide for the built environment
The New South Wales 2024-25 Budget, handed down by Treasurer Daniel Mookhey on 18 June, features a strong housing focus alongside key infrastructure spending. An investment of $119.4 billion over four years is committed to supporting NSW’s growing communities via the Essential Infrastructure Plan, which covers Social Housing, Roads and Transport, Health, Education, Water and Planning.
Queensland 2024 Budget - Quick guide for the built environment
The 2024-25 Queensland Budget was handed down by Treasurer Cameron Dick earlier this week with a strong cost-of-living focus and key capital investment spanning projects in health, transport, the clean energy transformation, education and social and affordable housing. A total investment of $27.1 billion in capital projects, set to directly support approximately 72,000 jobs, represents record investments in key regions and sectors, with the aim to provide vital services for a growing state.
South Australia 2024 Budget - Quick guide for the built environment
The South Australian Budget for 2024-25 was handed down by Treasurer Stephen Mullighan last week, reflecting core investment in the government’s key priorities of housing, cost of living relief, jobs and skills, and health. This is evident in the strategic allocation of resources aimed at fostering growth, development, and resilience across the Housing, Education, Health, Infrastructure, Arts, Sport and Recreation and Justice sectors.
Victorian 2024 Budget - Quick guide for the built environment
Delivered on Tuesday, 7th May, the Victorian 2024-25 State Budget was titled “Helping Families” and took a strong cost-of-living focus whilst attempting to reign in spending to achieve a budget surplus by 2026. The Helping Families theme has resulted in key infrastructure spending spanning education, health, sports and transport, however, the budget reflects a shift in commitments demonstrating the impacts of cost blowouts on existing projects, the continued volatility of the construction industry and the need to address the state’s $2.2 billion deficit.
Navigating CSR Certification: A Comprehensive Guide
In an era where corporate accountability is paramount, businesses across industries increasingly recognise the importance of integrating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into their operations.
Awards season is coming - are you ready?
Do you have a completed project (or a couple!) that you know is award-worthy? Well, now is the time to act! There are some fantastic Award programs open now / opening soon that will give you a chance to secure that well deserved recognition.
The Power of Self-Publishing: An Underutilised Strategy for Architecture Practices
As practitioners working in the industry, we know that architects provide value beyond delivering a quality built outcome. Self-publishing is emerging as an effective method of communicating that value.
Quick Guide to the Victorian Housing Statement
Over the last decade, housing prices in Australia have continued to rise, with the median transfer house price reaching $810,500 in Melbourne at the beginning of the year.
The Federal Government’s $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund passed the Senate earlier this month. Following this, the Victorian Government released its Victorian Housing Statement on 20 September 2023, shaping its plan to address the housing crisis.
New South Wales 2023 Budget - Quick guide for the built environment
Announced by Treasurer Daniel Mookhey on 19 September, the New South Wales 2023-24 State Budget has a strong focus on critical infrastructure with commitment to invest $116.5 billion in the Essential Infrastructure Plan over the next 4 years providing strong opportunities for the built environment industry and positive outcomes for communities. We provide a summary below of key items in the budget that are particularly relevant to our industry.
Co-design, what is it and why is it on the rise?
We chatted with Brugh O’Brien, Principal Social Innovator: Future of Home at TACSI, who explained why co-design is gaining traction as an innovative method to address complex challenges across various sectors, including services, policy, community, and place-based settings.
Why submitting for awards is not all about winning
There is a common perception that entering industry awards is an onerous process with very little return if you don't land a win - an unlikely platform for meaningfully raising your business profile. However, at New Doors, we believe submitting for awards is worthwhile for various reasons - and it's not all about winning.
Education Awards - Upcoming opportunities
Let us take the stress out of preparing your awards submissions. Its not too late to engage our expert team of built environment writers for the Victorian School Design Awards and the Learning Environment Australasia Chapter Awards.
ACT 2023 Budget - Quick guide for the built environment
Announced by Treasurer Andrew Barr on 27 June 2023, the ACT budget focuses on healthcare and housing and introduces the ACT Government’s Infrastructure Investment Program, which includes $6.5 billion towards general government sectors and $1.7 billion towards Public Trading Enterprises. We’ve done the hard work to bring a succinct digest of the key infrastructure and built environment highlights.
SA 2023 Budget - Quick guide for the built environment
South Australian Treasurer Stephen Mullighan delivered the state’s 23-24 budget on 15 June 2023. Significant funding is directed to housing, health, and transport, with investment flagged for the Northern Water Project, which will be confirmed in the second half of 2024. The below summarises infrastructure allocated within the budget that may help shape your business strategy in the state.
QLD 2023 Budget - Quick guide for the built environment
Announced by Treasurer Cameron Dick, on Tuesday 13 June 2023, the Queensland budget delivers an $89 billion building program, the biggest in the state’s history, and claims the largest health building program ever in the history of any state or territory.