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Episode 25. Lighting up our health and wellness and the evolution of COVID killing lights with David O’Driscoll (Part 2)

Episode 25. Lighting up our health and wellness and the evolution of COVID killing lights with David O’Driscoll (Part 2)

Spaces. They influence every part of our lives – our health, wealth and happiness. Each week on the Spaces podcast, Sam Buckby shares the insights of leading building and design experts to help make our buildings smarter and create healthier and happier spaces. On this episode, we welcome back lighting expert David O’Driscoll. During part […]

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Episode 24. Lighting up our health and wellness and the evolution of COVID killing lights with David O’Driscoll (Part 1)

Episode 24. Lighting up our health and wellness and the evolution of COVID killing lights with David O’Driscoll (Part 1)

Spaces. They influence every part of our lives – our health, wealth and happiness. Each week on the Spaces podcast, Sam Buckby shares the insights of leading building and design experts to help make our buildings smarter and create healthier and happier spaces. On this episode, we welcome business owner David O’Driscoll. This episode was […]

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Episode 23. Supercharging Building Performance, Energy Efficiency and Sustainability with Jackson Digney

Episode 23. Supercharging Building Performance, Energy Efficiency and Sustainability with Jackson Digney

Spaces. They influence every part of our lives – our health, wealth and happiness. Each week on the Spaces podcast, Sam Buckby shares the insights of leading building and design experts to help make our buildings smarter and create healthier and happier spaces. On this episode, we welcome Jackson Digney, and Enduro Builder for focus’s […]

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Holistic Architecture: Going Far Beyond Just Buildings

Holistic Architecture: Going Far Beyond Just Buildings

The traditional view of architecture is that it’s all about four walls and a roof. But as Nat Cheshire and his firm, Auckland-based Cheshire Architects, prove, architecture can go far beyond just buildings. I recently had the pleasure of welcoming Nat on the Spaces podcast, and it certainly got the synapses firing. Nat and his […]

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How to Get the Most From Your Building Buck – A Practical Five-Step Process

How to Get the Most From Your Building Buck – A Practical Five-Step Process

Building a home is often seen as a more expensive and difficult option than buying an existing home or renovating. However, as home building expert, Natalie Stevens, shows, if you do it right, building your own home can be a surprisingly affordable and achievable way of getting the home of your dreams. Through her website, […]

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THE BLOCK 2016 – Smart Home Automation

THE BLOCK 2016 – Smart Home Automation

Smart Homes or Homes of the Future are now mainstream I guess! Smart Home Automation is here and truly alive in Melbourne with the unveiling of some very cool new technology on the 2016 series of The Block. Voice control, facial recognition, switch glass and a whole range of new connected devices being rolled out by […]

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‘Smart’ Light Bulbs: A Gimmick Or Are They Actually Useful?

‘Smart’ Light Bulbs: A Gimmick Or Are They Actually Useful?

  If you follow the smart device market, or more specifically the smart home market, you definitely won’t know what ALL the products coming through are, but what you will know is that there seem to be truckloads of new ones every week. We have well and truly entered the world of the Internet of […]

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Smart Home Products and Apps that are so good…You don’t use them. Here’s 6 of the Best!

Smart Home Products and Apps that are so good…You don’t use them. Here’s 6 of the Best!

  So what the heck am I talking about? Could this be true? In what kind of world is something so good it’s not useful? I didn’t say that. I said “so good you don’t USE them.” Nothing to do with being useful. In fact, is there anything more useful than something that does it all […]

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