Science
Broad subject area
Working paper
Valuing Australian cultural institutions: developing a cultural worldview scale
This paper explores the relationship between cultural attitudes and estimates of the economic value of cultural institutions. The relationship is tested with preliminary findings from an empirical study of the economic value of two national cultural institutions in Australia?the National Museum of Australia and Old Parliament House (the historic former national parliament building). The two...
Guide
Narrowcasting services on television: guidelines and information about open narrowcasting television and subscription television narrowcasting services
ACMA is seeking comments on its proposed guidelines regarding the types of services that may be provided as narrowcasting television services under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.
Report
Water requirements of nuclear power stations
Currently the Government is undertaking a feasibility study into the possibility of establishing a nuclear power industry in Australia. Among the concerns raised about the development of a nuclear power industry in Australia is the amount of water consumed by nuclear power plants compared with other power stations. Nuclear power plants need more cooling water...
Conference paper
Green offices and recalcitrant tenants: exploring rating tools sensitivities for multi-story office buildings
Ratings tools have emerged to help classify the 'greenness' of a building. These ratings tools assess the energy use or environmental impact of the building and the rating is then used to communicate the building's predicted environmental performance to target owners and tenants. This paper performs a due diligence analysis on a case study green-rated...
Conference paper
A systemic approach to the sensitivity analysis of the energy performance of a multistory office building
This project describes a due diligence analysis on a ‘green’-rated office building. The building was assumed to be a system consisting of envelope, services, occupants, economic and urban environment. A parametric differential sensitivity analysis tested the effects of short and long term changes.