A $40 million donation will support a $74 million upgrade of the architecture, design and planning precinct at the University of Sydney’s Camperdown campus. By Adair Winder
Welcome to The Rational Method Newsletter — a space for sharing ideas, insights, and innovations shaping the future of hydraulic services and fire safety design.
Sparks+Partners’ team visits the Caroma Innovation and Design Centre hosted by GWA Group Limited.
Welcome to the first post by hydraulic engineer and MD of Sparks+Partners, Leon Dimino on the opportunity to join PPI Group.
Sparks+Partners’ MD and hydraulic engineer, Leon Dimino joins Jordan Skinner on the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. Listen NOW!
Over the past decade, civil engineering in Australia has undergone several significant trends that have transformed project planning, design, and construction.
The evolution of hydraulic services over the decade has been remarkable. What once began with A1 prints of architectural drawings, marked up by hand, has transformed into a world of digital precision.
Sparking the legacy In 2024, on the occasion of Garey Spark’s retirement, Sparks+Partners instituted a new annual award. The Award seeks to honour and carry forward the living legacy of Garey Sparks. It recognises individuals who embody the traits we admire in Garey. Those who know this doyen of hydraulic engineering can attest to these […]
Australian architects and designers are invited to submit expressions of interest to design a new home for Western Sydney University’s Indigenous Centre of Excellence.
Architectus has designed two new school buildings for a private girls’ school in Sydney’s inner west. The buildings will create additional teaching spaces needed to accommodate senior school enrolment projections for Meriden School in Strathfield.
The NSW government has allocated $78.5 million to establish an Indigenous Centre of Excellence at Western Sydney University. Slated to be built at the university’s Parramatta South campus on Darug land, the centre will be a place for research and inquiry, forming and key part of the university’s ambitions to become a national leader in […]
A Catholic primary school planned for Westmead in Parramatta could become Sydney’s newest vertical school, with the council and state planning department lending support to the project despite concerns over traffic and access to open space. Proposed by the Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, the Westmead Catholic Community Project would include the delivery of a […]
A $350 million “innovation precinct” in the Sydney suburb of Westmead has received development approval. The project, designed by Architectus, will consist of two mixed-use towers, to be located between Westmead Hospital and railway station. It will become a hub for health, education, research, and business, as well as “lifestyle facilities” such as a supermarket, […]
Growing inner-urban residential populations and land scarcity have created a new typology: the vertical school. These campuses are changing not only the physical teaching and learning space but also the way education is delivered.