Smart Housing publications
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Booklets
Smart Housing Design Objectives
A blueprint for designers and homeowners on how to design a Smart House.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Guidelines for Queensland
The fundamental idea of CPTED is that it is possible to use knowledge and creativity to design environments in ways that lessen or prevent the incidence of crime. Read more.
Universal Housing Design booklet
A comprehensive resource for those interested in designing residential dwellings to be used by people of all ages and abilities.
Safety and Security booklet
A comprehensive resource for those interested in increasing safety and security in residential dwellings.
Cost-efficiency booklet
A comprehensive resource showing the cost-efficient, value for money features of Smart Housing and how these can be achieved over time.
Your Home - Guide produced by the Australian Greenhouse Office
A consumer and technical guide to encourage the design, construction or renovation of homes to be comfortable, healthy and more environmentally sustainable.
Springfield Lakes sustainable display houses:
A research report on design, costs, innovation and assessment. The research presented in this report was carried out by Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation scholar, David Luxmoore of Sustainable Development Strategies Pty Ltd, March 2005.
To provide a summary of statistics and costs on the construction of three display homes that are more sustainable at Springfield Lakes that opened for public display in March 2004; and
To analyse the financial and construction issues encountered in the design and construction phase of these houses, and to provide recommendations from these learning’s.
Springfield Lakes sustainable display houses report (.pdf 713Kb)
Design guides and manuals
Indicative maintenance management plan
Use this plan to estimate how much it will cost to maintain a residential dwelling over time.
Indicative
maintenance management plan (.pdf 82Kb)
Building a Sustainable Home: Design Process
This flow chart outlines the process you should follow when designing a home.
Building a home - the development chain (.pdf 81Kb)
Newsletters
The Smart Housing Update is a free e-newsletter that highlights key developments and issues in the building and construction sector.
Visit Smart Housing news to view the most recent edition and past Updates.
More publications
For more Smart Housing publications, see the Research House publications.
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Last updated 02 October 2006
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