Collection: Tech Book

Source of information on practical timber design introduces the nature and inherent characteristics of timber given in relation to the requirements of BS5268, and demonstrates the use of Eurocode EC5 in structural timber design.

Traces the history of housing and the issues that are affecting the liveability of our cities today. Promotes an awareness of the role of medium-density group housing as an important urban housing form in Australia.

This chronicles the ideas, influences, outcomes and enduring legacies of this significant, though often under-appreciated, artistic turn in Australian urban design, which set Australian urban planning and development within a new international context.

Paper prepared to review the main issues in the practical application of the net present value approach to the calculation of up-front charges for new developments involving water and waste-water infrastructure - so called 'developer charges'.