News

5 May 2011 -

Caroline completes her Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship report!

After travelling to Europe and north-west America, Caroline has finalised her report on "The architecture of (net) zero emissions housing". Quoting from her conclusions:

As a result of my research, I believe Australia should move towards making our housing net zero emissions. In order to achieve this, we will need to:

• Develop appropriate policy and regulation for both new and existing housing, that is placed within a broader sustainability framework that can be adapted to accommodate local concerns
• Improve our technical approaches to all aspects of our housing to deliver simple solutions that are climatically and culturally appropriate to help achieve energy efficiency
• Align our design thinking and practice to support diverse and desirable housing that can easily enable occupants to achieve net zero emissions

By moving in such a direction I believe we will achieve:

• Better and more comfortable housing
• Improved resilience to high energy costs in the future
• An industry able to compete in a global economy, including:
  • Skilled professionals and industry workers able to export their skills and knowledge
  • Materials and products able to be used internationally
  • Exciting opportunities to innovate and improve.

Her report and conclusions will be made available in the near future.