Laura Connarty-Duncan is the Operations Manager at the Hire and Rental Industry Association (HRIA), the official industry association for hire and rental companies in Australia.Her aim is to increase the female participation in the hire & rental sector.She explains how and why this needs to happen.

Rebecca Plumstead, dwp sector leader for seniors living, has 25 years of extensive design and project management experience gained across diverse project types. She has a deep understanding of the profound contribution that built form makes to our environment, particularly regarding seniors living, residential, education and community buildings.In this podcast, our 200th episode, Rebecca explains what it takes to designing modern aged care facilities, and what is the future of aged care and how this will impact both the design and wider communities.This Podcast was brought to you by Siniat, proud sponsors of our 2024 Aged & Healthcare series.

Katie Rigg-Smith is the Chief Strategy Officer for WPP in Australia and New Zealand. WPP uses the power of creativity to build better futures for  people, planet, clients and communities.Katie is a keen student of human behaviour and a futurist. Katie delivers strategic expertise across WPP’s network of agencies in service of their clients. This includes an emphasis on how cultural, social, economic, and geographic trends influence behaviour, and in turn, how these behaviours will shape the future of marketing.She spoke with TAD exclusively in Hobart recently.

Royce Epstein is a seasoned professional with three decades of experience in commercial interior design and architecture, spanning a diverse range of roles, including interior designer, product designer and developer, and university lecturer and educator. Her passion lies in understanding the intricacies of materials: how they're made; how they're used; and most importantly, their impact on the planet. She has created a series of Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to share her lifelong learning of materials with the commercial architecture and design community. 

She recently spoke to us from chilly Philadelphia in the US about the latest trends in urban design and how they are being influenced by what she calls, the ‘Culture of Care’ in design.This podcast is brought to you in association with GH Commercial proud sponsors of our 2024 Commercial series of podcasts.

After a turbulent year which included fears around the company's future, Metricon’s new CEO Brad Duggan says the outlook is bright for Australia’s biggest home builder. He shares some of the key ingredients on how to inject some sanity back into Australia's troubled, yet vital housing sector.

Nazli Almasirad,  National Architectural Manager at Siniat Australia has been with the business since 2010 and leads the company's architectural strategy nationwide with a keen eye for emerging trends and a deep understanding of market dynamics. Nazli is committed to sustainable practices, strategic product development and forward-thinking innovation to foster better ways of living in the construction industry.Patrick Jeannerat, Head of Carbon and Circularity with the consulting firm Perspektiv Australia, a small bunch of sustainability experts dedicating their work to finding a better way.

As an engineer and leader of a small team of specialists, Patrick is on a mission to accelerate net positive and regenerative outcomes for organisations.Together, they explain how acoustics matter in aged care design and how choosing the right materials helps not only manage acoustics, but also sustainability and resilience outcomes as well.This Podcast was brought to you by Siniat, sponsors of our Aged & Healthcare series.

Designed by Wardle and engineered by Aurecon, the $650 million  Australian Institute for Infectious Disease (AIID) project in Melbourne has a majority women-led team, with six out of seven members being women, including the three most senior roles. With International Women’s Day (IWD) coming up, we speak with AIID Executive Director, Rowan Maclean  to offer Architecture & Design about the work her team is doing to use the economic influence of the project’s development to influence gender diversity.

SFA Australia and New Zealand are subsidiaries of the SFA group which is based in France.

For more than 65 years, the companies of the SFA Group have been working to provide professional and private individuals with ever greater sanitary comfort in their daily lives. 

They offer them much more than technological know-how; they offer inventive, reliable, and easy-to-implement solutions. 

Nick Moore,  National Business Development Manager for SFA Australia and Gregory Waters, Technical Manager for SFA Australia and New Zealand discuss the Saniflo range of solutions and delve into the evolving relationship between plumbing and architecture and how plumbing influences design.This podcast was brought to you by Saniflo.

The second part of our 2-part series with Tone Wheeler over why our cities and housing are breeding inequality.An in-depth discussion of why the extremely low density city of suburbia with single houses is no longer fit for purpose: not in any of the three measures of sustainability - they are not socially desirable, not environmentally safe and financially ruinous making us a most unequal society. This fascinating discussion covers the reason why housing, schools and education, workplaces and recreation all leading to inequality.  

In this episode, we talk with  Moddex Sales Director, Joe Rowland about using steel in the non-residential and civil/ infrastructure sectors.Rowland explains the sustainability and economic benefits with using Moddex no-weld, hot dip galvanized barrier systems in civil and urban infrastructure projects.This podcast is brought to you in association with Moddex, proud sponsors of our 2024 Sustainability  series of podcasts.