Cloud-based software provider BQE has received significant investment from Serent Capital, a growth-focused private equity firm that invests in technology and tech-enabled software companies. Working with professional service firms, BQE was founded by Shafat Qazi in 1995 as a billing and project management software company. Its flagship product, BQE CORE, is a cloud-based solution that […]
The third biennial ArchiTeam conference, this year named Trajectories, will be held virtually on Friday 21 May 2021. Trajectories will be a packed virtual conference where Australian and international speakers will share their vision for the future of architecture in this moment of reckoning. Against the backdrop of a precarious and uncertain world, it feels […]
RMIT University researchers have developed a plan to implement cigarette butt recycling into bricks at an industrial scale. The study builds on RMIT research from 2016 that showed that fired-clay bricks with 1% recycled cigarette butt content are as strong as normal bricks and use less energy to produce. The researchers found that if 2.5% […]
Koichi Takada Architects has been named Best Overall Winner at New York’s inaugural Architizer A+Firm Awards 2021 in the Medium Firm category. Architizer has the announced the winners of the 1st Annual Architizer A+Firm Awards, which celebrates the firms that have responded in dynamic ways to evolving global challenges. Koichi Takada Architects’ winning submission detailed […]
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