Zero Emissions Housing

Caroline Pidcock / 2015

Housing, Ecology & Environment
Europe

A review of key policy regulations, technical issues and design challenges facing Australia’s pursuit of zero emissions housing. This study looks at European built environment sectors across three broad areas: policy and regulations, technical issues, and design challenges. This aim was to better understand key drivers of Europe’s success in lowering carbon emissions, to inform an Australian architecture of zero emissions housing.

This research project firstly reviews international approaches, in order to better understand the following key drivers: Policy and regulations that have been developed in various countries around the world; Technical issues relevant to achieving net zero emissions housing; and design challenges that must be addressed by architects to achieve zero emissions housing. The report presents a summary of the major issues and recommendations for how we should address those drivers in Australia.

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