scholarly journals Adaptive reuse of Sydney offices and sustainability

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Jane Wilkinson ◽  
Hilde Remoy
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Office Space ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Business District ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Better Than

The built environment contributes 40% of total global greenhouse gas emissions and 87% of the buildings we will have in 2050 are already built. If predicted climate changes are correct, we need to adapt existing stock sustainably. Outside Australia there is a history of office to residential conversions. These conversions number few in Sydney although evidence suggests a trend is emerging in conversion adaptations. In 2014, 102 000 m2 of office space was earmarked for residential conversion in Sydney as demand for central residential property grows and low interest rates create good conditions. The Central Business District (CBD) population is projected to increase by 4% to 2031 requiring 45 000 new homes and this coincides with a stock of ageing offices. Furthermore, the Sydney office market is set to be flooded with the Barangaroo development supply in 2017; thus conditions for conversion are better than ever. However, what is the level of sustainability in these projects? And, are stakeholders cognisant of sustainability in these projects? Moreover, is a voluntary a mandatory approach going to deliver more sustainability in this market? Through a series of interviews with key stakeholders, this paper investigates the nature and extent of the phenomena in Sydney, as well as the political, economic, social, environmental and technological drivers and barriers to conversion. No major study exists on conversion adaptation in Sydney and the most residential development is new build. There is substantial potential to change the nature of the CBD and enhance sustainability with the residential conversion of office space. The findings show that opportunities are being overlooked to appreciate and acknowledge the sustainability of this type of adaptation and that there is a need for a rating tool to encourage greater levels of sustainability and to acknowledge existing levels of sustainability achieved in these projects.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN HUKUM BERNOULLI PADA KONSEP PERANCANGAN GALERI PESAWAT TERBANG DAN KANTOR SEWA DI KEMAYORAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Willy Steven Febrianto ◽  
Fermanto Lianto
Keyword(s):  
Central Business District ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Additional Function ◽  
History Of ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The Times ◽  
Business District

Along with the times, the Kemayoran area changed its function to become an office area, so that the history of Kemayoran is increasingly eroded. However, we cannot refuse the current of the times, especially the Kemayoran area, which has the potential to become a Central Business District (CBD). After searching the data by conducting interviews and surveys in the Kemayoran area and reviewing the literature, the urban acupuncture theory is used to answer the phenomenon that occurs, namely an aircraft history gallery and the additional function of the rental office will be used as an educational tourist spot where people can see various collections of aircraft from the Dutch, Japanese and Indonesian colonial times, and to fulfill Kemayoran's function as a CBD area. This building has a design concept taken from Bernoulli's law which is the movement of air as it passes through the wings of an aircraft and has a theme of aerospace. This gallery and rental office will be supported by programs such as movie showrooms, libraries, airplane exhibition rooms with a scale of 1:1, and workshops. With this building, it is hoped that the history of Kemayoran can be widely known by all circles and become a means of education, especially for the younger generation. Keywords: Airplane; Bernoulli; Gallery; Rental Office; Urban AcupunctureABSTRAKSeiring perkembangan zaman, daerah Kemayoran berubah fungsi menjadi daerah perkantoran, sehingga sejarah Kemayoran semakin lama semakin tergerus. Namun, kita tidak dapat menolak arus perkembangan zaman, terlebih daerah Kemayoran yang memiliki potensi menjadi daerah Central Business District (CBD). Setelah melakukan pencarian data dengan melakukan wawancara dan survei di kawasan Kemayoran serta mengkaji literatur, maka digunakan teori urban acupuncture untuk menjawab fenomena yang terjadi, yaitu sebuah galeri sejarah pesawat terbang dan fungsi tambahan kantor sewa akan dijadikan sebuah tempat wisata edukasi dimana orang-orang dapat melihat berbagai koleksi pesawat dari zaman penjajahan Belanda, Jepang, dan saat Indonesia merdeka, serta untuk memenuhi fungsi Kemayoran sebagai daerah CBD. Bangunan ini memiliki konsep perancangan yang diambil dari hukum Bernoulli yakni pergerakan udara saat melewati sayap pesawat dan memiliki tema kedirgantaraan. Galeri dan kantor sewa ini akan didukung dengan progam seperti ruang pertunjukan film, perpustakaan, ruang eksibisi pesawat dengan skala 1:1, dan workshop. Dengan adanya bangunan ini, diharapkan sejarah Kemayoran dapat dikenal luas oleh semua kalangan dan menjadi sarana edukasi khususnya bagi generasi muda.

A Brief Political History of South Australian Agriculture

Rural History ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON J. FIELKE ◽  
DOUGLAS K. BARDSLEY
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Practice ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Environmental

Abstract:This paper aims to explain why South Australian agricultural land use is focused on continually increasing productivity, when the majority of produce is exported, at the long-term expense of agriculturally-based communities and the environment. A historical analysis of literature relevant to the agricultural development of South Australia is used chronologically to report aspects of the industry that continue to cause concerns in the present day. The historically dominant capitalist socio-economic system and ‘anthropocentric’ world views of farmers, politicians, and key stakeholders have resulted in detrimental social, environmental and political outcomes. Although recognition of the environmental impacts of agricultural land use has increased dramatically since the 1980s, conventional productivist, export oriented farming still dominates the South Australian landscape. A combination of market oriented initiatives and concerned producers are, however, contributing to increasing the recognition of the environmental and social outcomes of agricultural practice and it is argued here that South Australia has the opportunity to value multifunctional land use more explicitly via innovative policy.

scholarly journals “…and beyond/ Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night”: On the Humanities (in times of) Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy De Chavez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Plural Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Political Economic

The history of the present is replete with the language of crisis, which has infiltrated various domains including the political, economic, social, environmental, and moral. Those various proclamations of collapse and disaster intersect somewhat in yet another crisis that we have become all too familiar with: the Humanities crisis. We are regularly reminded, and with intensifying pleas of urgency, that the Humanities are in peril. While various commentators have linked the troubling erosion of the Humanities to the present and impending failures of critical thought, democracy, and civic duty, the Humanities are still widely regarded as unable to measure up to the emerging dominant metrics of value. What then is to be done? How might we come to the defense of the Humanities without merely mouthing banal pieties or capitulating to the paralyzing force of cynical reason? Avoiding both prescriptive polemics and resignation to the corporate university’s remorseless logic of markets, I offer some reflections on what might constitute a valid defense of the Humanities. I suggest a plural form of defense that does not exacerbate what C.P. Snow has called “a gulf of mutual comprehension” between “two cultures” (1963, p. 4).

STRUCTURAL PRODUCTS WITH CAPITAL PROTECTION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO INVESTING IN CLASSICAL FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 68-72
Author(s):  
S. S. ROGOZIN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Structured Products ◽  
Retail Investors ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
Work Mechanism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Investment Object

The article is devoted to the features of structured products as an alternative investment object. Under historically low interest rates, structured products are provoking high demand from retail investors. The author examines a history of structured products market development, focusing on the analysis of construction principles and work mechanism of structured products with capital protection. In addition, the author elaborates on some features of Russian structured products market and reviews risks, associated with investments in structured products.

Telecommunication Systems’ Performance: Christchurch Earthquakes

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Tang ◽  
Alexis Kwasinski ◽  
John Eidinger ◽  
Colin Foster ◽  
Pete Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Telecommunication Service ◽  
Data Services ◽  
Service Interruption ◽  
Telecommunication Systems ◽  
Additional Strain ◽  
Central Offices ◽  
Business District ◽  
Better Than

Telecommunication systems generally performed better than other lifelines in the Christchurch-area earthquake sequence of 2010–2011; however, various service interruptions were a major concern for subscribers. Power disruption was the primary reason for service interruption in Christchurch, as has been similarly observed in many other major earthquakes around the world. Extensive ground failures impacted underground cabling, while Central Offices (COs) sustained minor damage due to strong shaking. Closure of the Central Business District and increased call volumes created additional strain on telecommunication service providers to deal with emergency response. This paper presents the findings of the post-earthquake lifeline performance investigations of both the landline network and the cellular network. Voice and data services of these networks are examined and commented based on the findings. The authors’ view of rendering the telecommunication systems more resilient is presented ( Eidinger and Tang 2014 ).

Politics, Independence, and Retirees

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Conti-Brown
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Central Banking ◽  
Time Inconsistency ◽  
Short Term ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

Until recently, it was widely believed that central banks must protect people from their own worst instincts: the populace demands easy money and low interest rates, and a politically sensitive representative class will give it to them. Central banks have the responsibility of resolving this time inconsistency problem by protecting the long-term value of the currency even against the short term demands of politics. Yet the financial crisis of 2008 and the 2016 election have changed this narrative. This chapter explores how this new political economy of central banking, in the face of long-term low interest rates, changes the posture of central banks against the rest of the polity. It discusses some history of political pressures against central banks in other climates and makes predictions about how the ‘new normal’ of lower interest rates will challenge the Fed’s ability to stay above the political fray, despite its best intentions.

scholarly journals Heritage & persistence: The case of the Kaiapoi fragment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Douglas ◽  
Nicola Short
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Space Time ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Train Station ◽  
History Of ◽  
Minor Significance ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Business District

This paper considers a small surviving portion of the Kaiapoi Woollens building, a warehouse and offices constructed in the central business district of Auckland, New Zealand in 1913. Demolished in 1964, a small surviving portion, now known as the Kaiapoi fragment, was left fused to its westward neighbour, the Griffiths Holdings building. When the latter, deemed to hold “little specific cultural heritage significance” (Reverb, 2016:14), was itself demolished in 2016 to make way for a new underground train station, its extraneous hanger-on to the east was left in place, raising less easily settled issues of heritage worth. Despite the minor significance of this fragment, its tenuous persistence opens broader questions about the constitution of the present and the future by cultural heritage, but also, we argue, the precarity of the contemporary present tout court, a state Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2004 and 2014) sees as heralding an emerging, yet still undefined, post-historicist chronotope, a space-time fusing that is characterised by a present inordinately broadened “by memories and objects form the past” (2014: 54-55). In this, Gumbrecht builds on the notion of the chronotope developed by Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975) in his account of particular fusions of space and time evident across the history of the novel. To better grasp the potential of Gumbrecht’s claims, we return to Bakhtin’s deployment of the chronotope and what underwrites it—dialogical exchange. Moreover, focus on a particular aspect of dialogue developed by Henri Bergson (1859–1941) assists us in rethinking the idea of space-time fusion via what Bergson (1991) himself recognised as a foundational agent capable of dissolving all spatio-temporal amalgamation—duration. Given the importance of dialogics and chronotopes in contemporary views on heritage and anthropology, we ask how Bergson’s broader emphasis on duration, and with it a “‘primacy of memory’ over a ’primacy of perception’” (Lawlor, 2003: ix), might assist us in expanding Gumbrecht’s notion of presence in heritage contexts. Following Leonard Lawlor’s recognition of a “non-phenomenological concept of presence” in Bergson (x), we attempt a provisional anatomy of presence, one prompted by, despite its diminutive scale, the Kaiapoi fragment itself. If presence can be characterised as a particular attention to the immediacy of life, we propose that heritage considered through the lens of the Kaiapoi fragment makes imaginable a deepening of immediacy towards what Bergson referred to as “attachment to life” (Lapoujade, 2018: 59-63).

scholarly journals Botany

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Mark Butler
Keyword(s):  
Central Business District ◽  
The South ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
National Significance ◽  
Business District

Botany is situated on the northern shores of Botany Bay in the south-eastern suburbs of Sydney, 10 kilometres south of Sydney's central business district. The presence of water, whether fresh or salt, is so inextricably bound to the history of Botany that the two are almost synonymous.In modern terms, the area is also strongly associated with various industries, aeroplanes, major arterial roads and seaports. For these reasons it is often regarded as the 'gateway' to Sydney, yet it is also much maligned and often overlooked, as people quickly pass through on their way to other destinations around the country or across the world. Still it is steeped in history of national significance with a large record of 'firsts' to its credit.

Institutional investor attitudes to technology-enhanced university vertical campuses in the digital era

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Newell ◽  
Zaharah Manaf ◽  
Jufri Marzuki
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
University Education ◽  
Successful Operation ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Office Space ◽  
Real Estate Sector ◽  
Business District

Universities internationally have recently increased their campuses to attract a broader coverage of students in a very competitive university education market (e.g. international students). This has seen many universities establish a Central Business District (CBD) office presence via vertical campuses in addition to their traditional campuses. To take advantage of the digital era, a key ingredient in this university space is smaller technology-enhanced teaching spaces in these vertical campuses rather than traditional large lecture theatres. Universities have considered a range of options to access this vertical campus office space, with the attractiveness of universities as major office space tenants and university education assets now being critically assessed as a potential real estate sector for investors; for example, included in a real estate fund. Using an extensive stakeholder survey of Australian universities, pension funds, real estate funds and appraisers, critical issues in the successful operation and management of vertical campus office assets are assessed for these various stakeholders in the vertical campus office asset management process in the digital age. Specific strategic and practical management issues for these vertical campus office assets as a real estate sector in this fourth Industrial Revolution and universities as major office space tenants are highlighted.

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