Older homes are colder homes. There’s a huge energy performance gap between newer and older homes – and it costs a lot.
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Before buying or renting your next home, take a closer look at how it will cope with the heat. Try this expert 12-point guide to avoiding ‘hot boxes’.
Most Aussie homes are not suited to the current climate, let alone future extremes. But they can be upgraded. A new report identifies the most common housing types and benefits of renovating.
Most of our 10.8 million existing homes are in need of a retrofit to improve their performance and cut household energy use and emissions. The $1.6 billion for energy upgrades covers 170,000 homes.
Improving the performance of nearly 11 million existing homes will make a much bigger difference to housing energy costs and emissions than an incoming 7-star energy standard for new homes.
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Associate Professor in Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor in Research & Innovation, RMIT University
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Research Team Leader, CSIRO
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Research Fellow in Climate Change Adaptation, La Trobe University
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Research Fellow in Human Geography, RMIT University
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Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Housing, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Researcher in architecture and urban planning, Climateworks Centre