This paper explores the potential for solar thermal cooling to succeed commercially, and more specifically, the application scenarios where this is most likely. This mainly philosophical contribution hopes to highlight directions for future research.

As part of the CRC for Low Carbon Living this scoping paper focuses on the Low Carbon Precincts (Program 2) however, it also examines aspects of how the Engaged Communities (Program 3) can help with the implementation of low carbon precincts e.g. through leadership, governance, construction and real estate, and community / consumer attitudes and...

Participant Annual Forum 2014 - Day 2Participant Annual Forum 2014 - Living Laboratories Deep Dive and Panel DiscussionChair: Megan Antcliff, Director, Strategic Projects and Innovation, Department of State Development, Government of South AustraliaBrad Pettitt, Mayor, City of Freemantle Roger Swinbourne, Associate Director, Design and Planning, AECOMChris Derksema, Manager Sustainability, City of Sydney

In 2013, ASBEC released the Sustainability Skills Collaboration Framework. This round table looks to explore a set of impediments, incentives and international examples aimed at developing a long-term implementation framework to increase policy and program consistency, participation, and recognition of sustainability programs across the whole building process in Australia.

Executive Summary The EnergyFit Homes Project aims to explore the key information and behavioural factors as well as the market structures that influence the purchase and leasing of new and existing low-carbon homes. This report presents a review of the literature on publicly available information, research reports and papers within this domain. The review has...