Guide to low carbon commercial buildings – retrofit
Why refurbish commercial buildings?
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Why refurbish commercial buildings?
Energy audits have been conducted for many years, and there is a well-established cohort of service providers trained to perform them in accordance with standards developed by ASHRAE and others. These standards define the process and quality of work that should be achieved for energy performance audits. However, a corresponding level of industry maturity, and an understanding of what should be included, does not yet exist for auditing water performance.
A new house is an opportunity; not only to ensure affordability and the best possible liveability for future occupants, but to create high-performance dwellings that actively ‘give back’ by generating more power than they use, collecting and recycling water and reducing the built environment’s carbon footprint. This document offers practical advice to developers and owner builders on how to achieve these objectives through the conception and realisation of a new home. In Australia the residential housing sector alone contributes around 9% of the country’s total
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