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The Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme, or NatHERS, is being expanded to include Whole of Home assessments and ratings to support the proposed National Construction Code energy efficiency requirements for residential buildings in 2022; the changes will help households improve a home's energy efficiency and reduce energy use, which provides a range of benefits including lower energy bills, improved comfort and health for occupants, and reduced carbon emissions.

Sustainable building design should consider durability, affordability, resource conservation, intra and intergenerational social equity aspects, and stakeholder’s perspective throughout its service life; this research has applied life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) framework to estimate the sustainability performance in terms of a single score, and to identify avenues for sustainability improvement strategies of buildings.

If you mark any NO box on the checklist, you need to take action to make your workplace safer.

This Safety Management Toolkit is aimed at employers and owners in small business — now known as Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU), which is explained more in this Toolkit. It will also be useful for managers.

Explains how to use correctly use timber to create safe temporary guardrails.

An initiative of the WorkCover Tasmania Board delivered by WorkSafe Tasmania.

This guide is targeted at small residential builders, but will also help larger residential construction businesses with more comprehensive requirements.