Projects

The RACE for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (RACE for 2030) commissioned this Opportunity Assessment on Enhancing home thermal efficiency (Research Theme H2), to identify priority research areas to accelerate the adoption of home thermal efficiency.

Scientists engage with communities to improve urban microclimates.

Enhanced Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) for Improving the Well-being of Vulnerable Population in Victoria

This project will investigate the lived experience of energy poverty and low carbon retrofit in Australian households as well as investigating the scaling up of retrofit service providers.

The results of the study will help in measuring organisational outcomes and relating those back to the physical features of buildings and employee perceptions.

‘Energy Support as Health Care’ – building capacities for mitigating energy poverty through cross-sector initiatives

Addressing the limited understanding of energy vulnerability and disadvantage in the shift to lower carbon gaseous future fuels for residential energy services in Australia.

This project aims to evaluate the lived experience of households and technical performance of apartments in Nightingale 2.0.

This project provided a comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) of alternative constructions, based on a typical Australian house design.

This project developed a benchmarking tool to assess sustainability in tertiary institutions.

Exploring opportunities in the Care at Home system to address energy vulnerability among older people living at home.

This project aims to document the lived experience of owners and renters in relation to apartments in Australia which have flammable cladding and other associated defects.

This project aims to document the lived experience of owners and renters in relation to apartments in Australia which have flammable cladding and other associated defects.

This project delivered a peer review of the spreadsheet versions of the Green Home (green savings) calculator tool developed for Victoria and Queensland.

Using universities as a case study, this research developed and implemented an organisational change model for embedding sustainability in higher education

This project examined the energy and environmental performance of 14 heritage residential buildings in Australia and New Zealand.

The project examined local and international case studies for setting and achieving targets for zero emissions residential buildings.

This project developed sustainability guidelines and standards for a major Australian bank’s international and local office and retail fitouts.

This project developed the UNEP-SB Index which is a globally consistent framework to understand, measure, report and verify sustainability.

This study evaluated the benefits of upgrading the thermal fabric, heater, cooler and hot water system of Victorian residential heritage buildings, using common financial analysis techniques.

Key SBi Lab researchers were involved in research and coordination of a series of related external research programs for the Green Loans program.

This project evaluated and decommissioned the Green Loans Home Sustainability Assessment (HSA) software tool.

This project investigated the energy performance and environmental impacts of heritage commercial buildings using various energy efficient strategies.

This project involved more development of the Green Loans’ Home Sustainability Assessment (HSA) tool for use as Residential Mandatory Disclosure (RMD) tool

This project developed professional development modules in sustainability education for the Australian Graduate Certificate in Professional Development.