This report investigates the practices that use energy in households with children to understand change and flexibility for demand management. The findings suggest that demand management and engagement activities need to go beyond individually motivating family households to save money, protect the environment, or make better choices in the electricity market.

The Lessons Learned are in both industry practice of industrialised building as well as academic research. We visited Harbin Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University and we shared each of our research programs and discussed potential future projects. An important difference between China and Australia is that off-site manufacturing (OSM) is termed Industrialised Building. In...

Are local schools the beating heart of our communities? Or are they underutilised public assets, closed out of school hours and off limits to local residents? • A new discussion paper on the extended use of schools released by New South Wales Labor asks these questions and raises a significant national issue. Australia has more...

This report presents the findings of a research project which assessed the social impact of the Warrnambool exchange fire. The fire occurred on 22 November 2012, and caused a telecommunications outage that lasted for about 20 days.

Evaluating an intensive intervention designed to end long-term homelessness, this report covers the 36 months outcomes of the Journey to Social Inclusion pilot program and follows on from two previous reports which examined outcomes after 12 and 24 months. The evaluation combined a traditional Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) with in-depth interviews.