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Publications

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Smart and Sustainable Homes Design Objectives

The Smart and Sustainable Homes Design Objectives outlines good practice in designing, planning, building, maintaining and renovating homes to make them more socially, environmentally and economically sustainable. It is a blueprint for designers and homeowners on how to design a sustainable home. Read More »

Designing for Queensland's Climate

The Designing for Climate series aims to introduce concepts of smart and sustainable housing design that relate to the climate zone in which the house is located. This publication is to provide new home designers and builders with information on how to best respond to their local climate zones.

Please note: This is a large document, to obtain a printed copy please visit: http://www.bookshop.qld.gov.au and then enter Designing for Queenslands Climate in the search catalogue (Postage costs will apply).

Any further enquiries please email smarthousing@publicworks.qld.gov.au

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.


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.

Building a Sustainable Home: Design Process

This flow chart outlines the process you should follow when designing a home.


Newsletters

The Smart Housing Update is a free e-newsletter that highlights key developments and issues in the building and construction sector.

More publications

For more Smart Housing publications, see the Research House publications.

Print on Demand

If you do not have access to a printer and would like to order a printed copy of any of these documents free-of-charge, please go to our Queensland Government Bookshop .



Last Updated 05/08/2009

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