This week The Strategist, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s analysis and commentary site, published my article on a question that sits closer to our day job than most defence writing does: what happens when drone designers start using materials that… Continue Reading →
My new article, The Missile the Laser–Microwave Duo Were Meant to Save, has now been published in The Forge. The piece examines a problem that sits at the intersection of procurement, threat assessment, and cross-domain design logic. It asks a… Continue Reading →
I’ve had a letter published in Building and Environment (Elsevier) responding to Coulburn et al. (2026), a paper arguing that Australia’s mould assessment and remediation sector is “unregulated” and “failing,” with a widely quoted claim that only 5% of insurance-managed… Continue Reading →
Interviewed with host Gaving McGrath to talk about ‘toxic black mould’ in light of the large number of Victorian houses recently flooded along the Murray River.
When I first started researching the condensation problem in 2014 with Dr Mark Dewsbury, we were looking at newly completed code-compliant houses. Copious amounts of interstitial condensation had riddled the structure with mould. It was designed-in, built-in water damage that… Continue Reading →
There are few common construction systems more problematic than waffle rafts. Scott Chen, a structural engineer, has raised his unreserved structural concerns in his Linkedin post and discussion (unfortunately the post, and the attached knowledge-base from the spirited discussion, has… Continue Reading →
This is the dataset I requested through the Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit (VISU), Monash University, that was used in the paper (with ASCE, the American Society of Civil Engineers), titled: Ensuring that “safety glass” is safe. The paper is available… Continue Reading →
The following post is a snippet of a manuscript I wrote for the Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction. The overall paper discusses how building inspections need to change in response to the risks associated… Continue Reading →
An article I wrote for Lucinda Curran of Eco Health Solutions. It is a gentle induction to the world of mould, for which I have tried to approach in a balanced and respectful way. More importantly it is a positive… Continue Reading →
With the increasing cost and extensive delays in the supply of timber building materials, it is increasingly common to see steel framing adopted in domestic construction. However, the question remains: can steel be a direct substitution? This article explains why… Continue Reading →
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