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Achieving Better Public Toilet Safety with CPTED Design
CPTED transforms toilet design into a tool for safety, dignity, and community pride—preventing misuse through smart, human-centred environmental design.
08 August 2025
Refurb vs Replace: Is a patch-up costing you more?
Refurbishing old toilet blocks may seem cost-effective, but hidden risks and short lifespans often outweigh savings. Learn why rebuilding public toilets…
02 July 2025
Why Prefab Toilet Buildings Outperform Concrete/Masonry Construction
Choosing the right toilet building for public parks involves many considerations, and often includes comparing traditional concrete options. But that comparison…
28 May 2025
8 Critical Design Aspects for Better Public Restrooms
There are many design considerations to keep in mind when it comes to new public restrooms and toilet facilities. Yet decisionmakers in different roles…
14 January 2025
6 Ways to Reduce Maintenance Costs on Your Public Toilet Buildings
Maintenance and maintenance expenses are items that are weighing heavily upon the minds (and budgets) of a lot of Australian local councils and government…
19 November 2024
Durability in toilet building design. How do you effectively build to last?
Managing toilet building projects is an inherently complex task for local government. But, when you’re building in a flood prone area, things become much…
01 October 2024
Why the right prefab system can speed up toilet block installation by 30%
Not all prefabricated modular toilet block systems are the same. Understanding this, and then choosing appropriately, can save councils, installers and…
24 September 2024
Future-proof assets with flood-resilient toilet design
Managing toilet building projects is an inherently complex task for local government. But, when you’re building in a flood prone area, things become much…
22 July 2024
The automated public toilet: modern convenience, or increasingly costly illusion?
The promise of fully self-cleaning public facilities is in some ways just like the promise of self-driving cars: overhyped and always just out of reach.…
25 June 2024
How to design and deliver Changing Places toilets
Universal access toilets do meet some of the needs of people with disabilities, like offering a level of accessibility that enables many to use public…
07 June 2024
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