Neuron Case Study | Cadman Cresent
256 Units MSquared Capital Client Services provided – Services Infrastructure Assessment– Engineering Options Report– Engineering Design Guide– Engineering spatial drawings– Coordination meetings– Covering mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, fire protection, lift engineering services Cadman Crescent, NSW In our experience, Sydney residential projects typically fall into one of two categories. The first category is high density towers, and […]
A case for going all-electric on buildings
Are all-electric buildings part of our residential future? A recent GBCA report says yes “All new buildings can be built to be all-electric today. The technologies and desire exist. There is no reason not to build them.” – The Green Building Council Australia. We are being told to plan for an electric future. At least, a […]
How can Proptech bridge the skilled labour shortage gap?
How can Proptech bridge the skilled labour shortage gap? To deliver on its ambitious future development plans, Australia will need a robust skilled workforce. Recent projections by Infrastructure Australia however, show the skilled workforce will be 48% short of demand by 2023. That’s a deficit of 93,000 people. Further affected will be the residential housing […]
Energy Efficient Buildings & the Race to Net Zero.
Australia’s Race to Net Zero: Is Your Building a Help or Hindrance? It has been said that our global effort to reduce CO2 emissions, create jobs and unlock sustainable growth starts at home. As engineers with decades of property industry expertise, Neuron knows the race to net zero really starts in the design phase, long before […]
Designing for Bushfires and COVID-19
How to improve your buildings resilience to Bushfires and COVID-19 During the 2020 Australian bushfires, air quality in parts of Sydney were reported as being equivalent to Sydney residents smoking 34 cigarettes per day. As many Australian homes are quite ‘leaky’, thousands of suburban residences and its occupants were exposed to toxic levels of smoke and smog for […]
Get the most our of Design Excellence Competitions using PropTech
Get the most our of Design Excellence Competitions using PropTech Property developers, architects and designers in Sydney would be aware of the design control initiatives that go hand in hand with the development application (DA) process. A core aspect of the City of Sydney’s Competitive Design Policy (CDP) is mandated design competitions for all major […]
NSW Building Legislation 2021 (NSW)
Preparing for the NSW Building Legislation Changes “Advocates of creativity must understand the pressing facts of the executive’s life: Every time an idea is submitted to her, it creates more problems for her—and she already has enough.” – Ted Levitt, HBR How does PropTech help exceed new requirements under The Design and Building Practitioners Regulation […]
Biophilic Design – Engineering Roof Space Alternatives
Biophilic Design – Rooftops engineering better communities In recent years, developers have turned their attention to what was once the most overlooked and underutilised space on a building: the rooftop. Historically reserved for plant space and kept well out of the public eye, resort-style rooftop amenity is now rarely excluded from qualifying new luxury residences, […]
SEPP65 changes case study
SEPP 65 changes; impact case study Neuron was recently invited to assist the Property Council of Australia’s taskforce in their review of the proposed policy changes to the Apartment Design Guide (ADG) as part of the new Design and Place SEPP. Neuron’s software, in conjunction with other Proptech platforms was quickly able to run […]