January 17, 2020
Our buildings aren’t made to keep out bushfire smoke. Here’s what you can do
Link to article in The Conversation by Geoff Hanmer
January 17, 2020
Energy efficiency ratings don’t measure air tightness, experts have said new measures may be needed
Link to article in The Canberra Times by Lucy Bladen
November 7, 2019
Editorial November 2019
A recent article in The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/australias-still-building-4-in-every-5-new-houses-to-no-more-than-the-minimum-energy-standard-118820) shows that the majority of purchasers of new houses in Australia get the…
November 7, 2019
3DANN: A correlation-based model for heat losses through building ground
Zhengen Ren, Omid Motlagh, Dong Chen Heat loss of a building through the ground becomes relatively important as the above-grade…
November 7, 2019
Does the energy efficiency of a new dwelling vary with the socio-economic status of the area in which it is built?
(This research was presented by Melissa James at the Improving Residential Energy Efficiency (IREE) conference held in Brisbane in April…
November 7, 2019
Australian Housing Data portal – new dashboards
Since the launch of the AHD portal, we have had 3000 people visit the site and received lots of positive…
November 7, 2019
H-Star Portal
Several major improvements to the HStar Portal will be released soon to improve the efficiency of the ratings process and…
May 2, 2019
A new data portal from Australia’s national science agency
Through the Australian Housing Data (AHD) Portal, CSIRO is centralising a vast amount of energy efficiency data that will underpin…
February 8, 2019
Update to the HStar (HERS) Portal released
A major update to the HStar (HERS) Portal has been released. Key improvements in HStar v2.0 include: Redesign of Portal…
December 13, 2018
Chenath v3.21 update
A new Chenath engine (currently assigned version 3.21) is planned for release in 2019 which includes the following potential updates…
