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What does BuiltBetter do?
Assisting you to make better policy and practice decisions in the built environment, BuiltBetter helps you search for resources, insights, projects and networks, discover the people and organisations, who provide the knowledge, explore by subject, application, scale or system. BuiltBetter is new and exciting and will continue to grow and develop. Find out more…
Guides
Guide to low carbon households
Occupants, or householders, may be owners or renters and there may be multiple householders within one dwelling. This document recognises the needs and capacities of these different householder groups and, where appropriate, also addresses the needs of households in different climate zones.
Guide to low carbon residential retrofit
The document builds on key research conducted nationally by individuals and organisations, including the Australian Government’s Department of Environment and Energy and local universities, working in the areas of low carbon retrofit options, housing typology and climate.
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Resources
Reviews
Do green-rated office buildings save operational energy?
A review of empirical evidence for the energy efficiency of new green-rated office buildings.
Digital services and communication platforms for residential energy customer engagement
What role do future energy management systems play? This review takes a look at what the literature says.
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Tools
Precinct Carbon Assessment tool
Enables the exploration of different low carbon scenarios at precinct scale.
Urban Heat Index tool
Support urban heat island mitigation decision-making
Go to Low Carbon Tools for details and more tools.
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Projects
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