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Residential retrofitting: current practice and emerging directions – summary of a BEIIC report
Published: 31 August 2010Residential buildings account for around 13 per cent of the Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, and numerous studies have identified energy ...
Comparative service life assessment of window systems
Published: 30 November 2007 | Edited: 30 October 2018This note was reviewed and approved in October 2018 - not applicable for update. The BRANZ research organisation investigated the environmental ...
In 1992 the Australian Federal Parliament enacted the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). The DDA is a civil rights law, activated by lodging a ...
Thermal mass and insulation for temperate climates
Published: 30 November 2010 | Edited: 24 August 2018This note was reviewed and approved for currency in August 2018. Insulation and thermal mass are highly effective ways to reduce energy use and ...
Biodiversity, the variety of life on earth, is required for the health of the natural environment and the continuation of the human species. Though ...
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Effective employment agreements not only set out salary, employment conditions and other statutory entitlements but will also include provisions ...
The previous version of this note (Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings by Deo Prasad May 1995) emphasised the need for including fundamental ...
It is becoming increasingly well understood that there is a widespread problem with building health issues in our modern built environment. Sealed, ...
The philosophy and practice of water sensitive urban design – is it consistent with a whole system approach
Published: 31 August 2007This paper provides a critique of the Water sensitive urban design (WSUD) paradigm by discussing its congruence with an established sustainable ...