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Think Brick Australia has been very active in energy efficiency and life cycle analysis research for over 10 years and for its submission to the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Energy Efficiency, it decided to provide a brief, ‘lessons learned’ overview specifically discussing three areas:
thermal modelling software
the life cycle analysis CONTINUE READING
The 2009 State of Supply Report from the National Housing Supply Council was released yesterday (27/4/10) by the Minister for Housing Tanya Plibersek. The report is the 2nd of its kind and aims to determine forward housing demand and supply over 20 years and assess the adequacy of construction and CONTINUE READING
A long time ago I mused about the ‘commonness’ of bricks and perhaps because of that, it makes them harder to sell.
Apparently, global sales/brand/advertising group Ogilvy have mused the same thing! Based on an assumption that bricks are hardly used anymore (read the brief), they have decided to use the CONTINUE READING
Big, bold plans like those reported in this article “Plan to lift tired spots” are likely to become more common as all levels of government start to more actively engage in the population and planning debates that are currently starting to evolve.
But is this sort of ‘grand design’ planning feasible? CONTINUE READING
For those people with a longer memory or more years behind them than me, multiple and specific government interest in improving the built environment will definitely be a new thing. I am told, that until recently (past 10 years), the only interest government’s had in the broad issues of the CONTINUE READING
When we teach, is it perhaps not insightful to ask ‘what are we omitting?’. Although sometimes just small oversights – or perhaps even conscious decisions – we need to be careful about omissions because they reduce the number of options we have in the future. If we don’t know about CONTINUE READING
It has gone largely under the radar, but the Government has defererd its decision on implementing the regulations for 6 Star outlined in the recent update to the BCA 2010.
At this stage it is not quite clear why the decision was deferred, however, it appears that after submissions to the CONTINUE READING
According to a blogger on US based Green Builder Dispatch, we are definitely entering a green boom. His five reasons are:
Booms are born from busts (and we’ve just gone through the GFC)
There’s no shortage of cash
Innovation is growing, not slowing
Washington is willing, and
Society is on board.
While it is a bit CONTINUE READING
Tone Wheeler discusses Designing for Climate with Broadcast Builder: Australia’s only broadcast for CPD points for Australian builders!
Click here to listen (You will need to scroll down and click on the ‘Designing for Climate’ link).
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The St James Ethics Centre in conjunction with the Total Environment Centre have just release a product road map for a sustainable building.
Product roadmaps attempt to highlight not just simple measures of sustainability such as energy efficiency and water usage, but also aspects of social sustainability, design, construction and use. CONTINUE READING