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MR1210: Commonwealth milestone R1.2.10

Project Leader: Professor Stephen Foster, UNSW

This project will satisfy Commonwealth Milestone R1.2.10 - “Review of total outputs completed and low carbon materials, products and designs for...

RP1001: Air Handling Solutions, Integration Approaches and Building Design Considerations for PVT Roofing

Project Leader: A/Prof. Alistair Sproul, UNSW

This project aims to integrate a PVT air system with the heating ventilation and air conditioning system of two real buildings.

RP1002: Concentrated Solar Thermal Systems and Absorption Hvac Systems

Project Leader: Dr Rob Taylor

This project will reduce operational and financial uncertainties associated with solar thermal heating and cooling in Australia.

RP1003: Status Report and Directions on Integrating PV with Building Products

Project Leader: Prof. Stuart Wenham, UNSW

A status report on the development of a roadmap for the uptake of building integrated PV.

RP1004: Performance Based Criteria for Concretes - Creating Pathways for Low Carbon Concrete Manufacture with Existing Standards

Project Leader: Prof. Stephen Foster, UNSW

This project explores alternate pathways for low carbon concretes to be used with existing standards.

RP1006: Viable Integrated Systems for Zero Carbon Housing Systems

Project Leader: Prof. Wasim Saman, UniSA

This project develops and validates building energy modelling tools to create a regulatory pathway towards zero emission housing in Australia.

RP1007: Intelligent Automated Monitoring of Commercial Photovoltaic (PV) Systems

Project Leader: A/Prof. Alistair Sproul, UNSW

This project refines the Solar Analytics tool that allows users to identify and correct problems with PV energy production levels.

RP1008: Industry Support Mechanisms for Renewable Heating and Cooling

Project Leader: Dr. Stephen White, CSIRO

This project aims to address barriers to renewable heating and cooling technology and stimulate market demand.

RP1009: Closing the Loop on Evidence-Based Low Carbon Design of Non-Residential Buildings

Project Leader: Dr Philip Oldfield

The project will connect the wealth of evidence that exists for high-performance buildings with decision and policy makers. In order to create better...

RP1010: Monitoring and Modelling the CSR Low Energy House

Project Leader: Prof. Wasim Saman, UniSA

This project will enable performance enhancement and explore the technical and economic viability of low energy housing in Australia.

RP1011: Sustainable and Affordable Living Through Modular, Net Zero Energy, Transportable, and Self-Reliant Homes and Communities

Project Leader: Bruce Watson, UNSW

This project aims to develop sustainable, affordable and transportable housing units (or Pods).

RP1012: Next Generation Low-Emissivity Pliable Membranes for Moisture Management in Building Construction

Project Leader: Steve King, UNSW

The project addresses emerging moisture management and condensation risk in Australian buildings.

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RP1013: Enabling Better Utilisation of Distributed Generation with Distributed Storage

Project Leader: Dr Peter Pudney

This scoping study investigates the potential to integrate electrical and thermal energy storage systems into mini and micro grids.

RP1014: Impact of Energy Efficient Pool Pumps on Peak Demand, Energy Costs and Carbon Reduction

Project Leader: Associate Professor Alistair Sproul

This project will establish the optimum pool pump system to reduce energy use and cost, and minimise impact on the grid and carbon emissions.

RP1014u1: Energy efficient swimming pools – engagement and utilisation

Project Leader: Associate Professor Alistair Sproul

This project aims to engage with the pool equipment industry to encourage greater uptake of energy efficient pool systems, utilising the outputs of...

RP1015: Combining a building integrated PVT system with a low temperature desiccant cooler to drive affordable solar cooling

Project Leader: A/Prof. Alistair Sproul, UNSW

This project seeks to cool buildings by using low grade waste heat from PVT collectors to drive a thermal cooling system, lowering carbon emissions.

RP1017: Validating and Improving the BASIX Energy Assessment Tool for Low-Carbon Dwellings

Project Leader: Dr Lan Ding

This study will help identify areas for improvement of BASIX assessment models and inform future sustainability strategies and policy.

RP1017e1: Validating and improving the BASIX energy assessment tool for low-carbon dwellings - Phase 2

Project Leader: Dr Lan Ding

In alignment with the methodologies developed in the CRCLCL RP1017 project, RP1017 phase 2 will continue to monitor different types of energy...

RP1019: Advanced Comfort Index for Residential Homes

Project Leader: A/Prof. Alistair Sproul, UNSW

This project will develop an Advanced Comfort Index to inform designers, builders and homeowners of the relative comfort level of a home.

RP1020: Reducing Barriers for Commercial Adaptation of Construction Materials with Low-Embodied-Carbon

Project Leader: Professor Stephen Foster

This project aims to reduce the commercial barriers to new low-carbon construction materials.

RP1020u1: Demonstrating the practical use of geopolymer concrete: high density coastal protection units

Project Leader: Professor Stephen Foster

This project builds on and is a direct utilisation of the research outputs from RP1004 and RP1020 which have developed the performance criteria and...

RP1020u2 - Durability of geopolymer products in sewage environment

Project Leader: Prof. Stephen Foster

The project aims to assess the long-term performance of geopolymer mortars in a natural sewage environment through a third year of testing with...

RP1020u3: Mainstreaming of Geopolymer Concrete for Pavements

Project Leader: Professor Stephen Foster, UNSW

This project builds on the backbone and success of projects RP1004 and RP1020. In mid-2018, and as a direct outcome of RP1020, the Handbook for...

RP1021: Reframing Building Regulation

Project Leader: Prof. Peter Newman

This project will examine the role of best practice building codes, standards and regulations as a catalyst for transitioning to low carbon living.

RP1022: Investigation of innovative sustainable low carbon products from waste materials for built environments

Project Leader: Professor Veena Sahajwalla

This project will study various agricultural and plastic waste materials to produce alternative low-carbon sustainable building products.

RP1022u1: Prototyping, testing and demonstrating the industrial scale production of composite engineered stone from waste glass

Project Leader: Scientia Prof Veena Sahajwalla

This project aims to deliver an innovative solution for industrial scale production of glass composite panels.

RP1023: Forecasting and home energy analysis in residential energy management solutions

Project Leader: Associate Professor Alistair Sproul

This project will develop algorithms for software that interprets energy supply and demand at the system level.

RP1024: Informing the Next Generation Residential Energy Assessment Tools.

Project Leader: Prof Wasim Saman, University of South Australia

Building on the existing NatHERS platform, the project develops the next generation of house energy rating tools capable of assessing a wider range...

RP1026: Evaluation of Next-Generation Automated Fault Detection & Diagnostics Tools for Commercial Building Energy Efficiency

Project Leader: Dr Josh Wall

This project will assess emerging automated FDD tools across a range of commercial building types and HVAC systems.

RP1031: Development and optimisation of low carbon, affordable, medium-rise modular structural system using innovative connections

Project Leader: Professor Saman Fernando, Swinburne University of Technology

This project aims to develop a robust, innovative and repeatable framing solution.

RP1032: Facilitating large energy user deployment of off-site renewable generation

Project Leader: Dr Emily Mitchell, University of New South Wales

The project aims to provide large energy users with frameworks and tools facilitating off-site renewable generation.

RP1032u1: Financial assessment tool to assist large energy consumers with energy contracting and clean energy options including local as well as off-site renewables

Project Leader: Jose Bilbao, UNSW

The project will develop a tool to assist in Power Purcase Agreements (PPA) development and improve decision making and monitoring to ensure value...

RP1033: Mainstreaming High Performance Commercial Building HVAC

Project Leader: Ian Dixon, AECOM

This project aims to investigate how to mainstream high performance Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) in commercial buildings.

RP1034 Carbon Value Engineering

Project Leader: Dr Philip Oldfield, Dr Ali Akbar Nezhad & Prof David Carmichael, UNSW

This project will develop a new value engineering framework to maximise the reduction of embodied carbon emissions.

RP1036: Decentralised Electricity Markets

Project Leader: Luke Marshall

This project aims to address the question of whether existing electricity market arrangements can facilitate efficient investment and operation of...

RP1036u1: Open-Source Embedded Network and Microgrid Modelling Tools for Consumers

Project Leader: Dr Robert Passey

The overall objective of this project is increased uptake of renewable energy generation and other distributed clean energy technologies by multi-...

RP1037: Driving Increased Utilisation of Cool Roofs on Large Footprint Buildings

Project Leader: Prof. Paul Cooper, University of Wollongong

The project will deliver cool roof design and calculation resources, and evidence of the impact of cool roof products on building performance.

RP1037u1:Above-Roof Temperature Impacts on Heating Penalties of Large Cool Roofs in Australian Climates

Project Leader: Professor Paul Cooper, University of Wollongong

The aim of this project is to provide a better quantitative understanding of how large cool roofs behave during cool or cold weather conditions, as a...

RP1040: Advanced hybrid ventilation systems for schools

Project Leader: Professor Mat Santamouris

There is much concern about indoor thermal comfort conditions in school buildings as research has demonstrated that it affects the health, learning...

RP1041: Examining building compliance issues to improve thermal performance of dwellings for carbon positive and healthy homes

Project Leader: Dr Anir Upadhyay

This project aims to examine building construction quality and its impact on energy performance for space conditioning.

RP1042: Energy and indoor climate visualisation to encourage homeowners for low carbon living

Project Leader: A/Prof Paul Osmond

This project aims to develop an integrated real-time feedback mechanism to make householders aware of their disaggregated energy consumption and...

RP2001: Scoping Study - Precinct Design & Assess Tools

Project Leader: Professor Peter Newton

This project evaluated urban precinct assessment tools to assist the development of a 21st century tool .

RP2002: Integrated ETWW Demand Forecasting and Scenario Planning for Precincts

Project Leader: Professor Michael Taylor

This project aims to develop a shared platform for integrated ETWW demand forecasting and scenario planning.

RP2003: Review of Policy for LC Precincts

Project Leader: Professor Peter Newman

This project will use recent low carbon precincts as case studies for the development of successful precincts.

RP2005: Urban Micro Climates

Project Leader: Professor John Boland

This project applies knowledge about urban micro climates in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

RP2006: FredZED - Mainstreaming LC Housing in WA

Project Leader: Professor Peter Newman

This project follows case studies to encourage the mainstreaming of low cost, low carbon housing in Perth.

RP2007: Integrated Carbon Metrics – A Multi-Scale Life Cycle Approach to Assessing, Mapping and Tracking Carbon Outcomes for the Built Environment

Project Leader: Associate Professor Tommy Wiedmann

The Integrated Carbon Metrics project quantifies the carbon emissions for the various processes in our urban environment.

RP2007u1: Integrated Carbon Metrics – Tool alignment with the National Carbon Offset Standard for Precincts

Project Leader: A/Prof Thomas Wiedmann

In this project extension, two tools developed under the Integrated Carbon Metrics (ICM) project (RP2007), will be aligned with the requirements...

RP2007u2: ICM Precinct Carbon Assessment Tool Conversion for Cloud-based Interfaces towards Utilisation

Project Leader: Dr Ke Xing, University of South Australia

The aim of this project is to convert the existing NCOS aligned ICM tool of Precinct Carbon Assessment (PCA) from an engineering software tool (...

RP2008: Wastewater Biosolids

Project Leader: Prof. Richard Stuetz

This project will assess wastewater solids management scenarios for optimising energy efficiency.

RP2009: Planning a Research Agenda for Low Carbon Transport

Project Leader: Dr Rocco Zito

This scoping study provides a research agenda for low carbon transport.

RP2010: Informing and Trialling Low Carbon Inclusions in State Government Built Environment Sector Tenders

Project Leader: Dr Charlie Hargroves - Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP)

This project aims to enhance the low carbon outcomes of built environment projects using tendering processes.

RP2011: PIM - An Open Digital Information Standard throughout the Urban Development Lifecycle

Project Leader: Jim Plume

The PIM project will deliver an open data model for precinct-scale digital modelling across the breadth of the CRCLCL initiatives.

RP2011u1: Progressing precinct modelling on the UNSW campus and beyond: BIM/PIM and 3DGIS

Project Leader: Professor Sisi Zlatanova, UNSW

This project aims to build on the work of RP2011 and showcase potential solutions to the challenges of modelling and managing precinct information.

RP2014: Quantifying the Contribution of Green Infrastructure to Carbon and Energy Performance

Project Leader: Dr Paul Osmond, UNSW

This study will develop an assessment model based on the services delivered by green infrastructure.

RP2015: Carbon Reductions and Co-Benefits: Literature and Practice Review of Australian Policies Relating Urban Planning and Public Health

Project Leader: Professor Michael Taylor

This scoping study reports on Australian policies for urban planning and health, and levels of active transport usage.

RP2016: Assessing the Impact of Solar PV, Electricity Prices and Dwelling Energy Efficiency on Domestic Electricity Consumption in Sydney

Project Leader: Professor Peter Newton, Swinburne

This project will identify whether conservation or rebound (Jevons) effects are associated with solar PV take-up.

RP2017: Energy Benchmarking for Efficient, Low-Carbon Water Recycling Operations

Project Leader: Dr Michael Short, UniSA

This project will benchmark current recycled water systems' performance and drive future optimisations.

RP2017u1: Operationalising Australian energy benchmarking for efficient, low-carbon wastewater treatment nationally via a new Benchmarking Energy and Carbon (BEC) tool

Project Leader: Dr Michael Short , UniSA

Following on from the work in project RP2017, this next phase will take a new suite of wastewater treatment energy benchmarks and KPIs produced and...

RP2018: Retrofitting Urban Precincts to Create Low Carbon Communities

Project Leader: Roger Swinbourne

This research seeks to identify opportunities and blockages to retrofitting low carbon precincts through a living laboratory approach.

RP2019: CO2 Reduction and Food Production from Household and Commercial Food Waste: Composting for Different Urban Forms

Project Leader: Dr Vivienne Waller, Swinburne University of Technology

This project will achieve environmental, health, social and economic benefits from composting food waste.

RP2021: Greening suburban transport

Project Leader: Associate Professor Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology

The project will investigate and develop an investment framework for low carbon transport interventions.

RP2021e1: Greening inner-urban travel with sharing economy mobility Services

Project Leader: Dr Stephen Berry

This research investigates the role sharing economy mobility services (i.e. share bikes, share cars, eco-caddies, Uber) can play in reducing inner-...

RP2021u1: Improving the connection efficiency of existing public transport interchanges

Project Leader: Dr Stephen Berry, UniSA

The project will analyse MetroCard data plus interview survey data from interchange users, to draw some conclusions about user’s needs for various...

RP2021u2: Shifting from Entrenched Car Ownership to Car Usership

Project Leader: Dr Stephen Berry, UniSA

Better understanding is needed of why people feel the need to own a car and how they can be encouraged to transition from an exclusive ownership...

RP2023: Microclimate and Urban Heat Island Mitigation Decision-Support Tool

Project Leader: Dr Lan Ding, UNSW

This project aims to develop a urban heat island mitigation decision-support tool for use by industry and government.

Thermal imaging of buildings

RP2024: Guide to Urban Cooling Strategies

Project Leader: Paul Osmond

This project will draw on current CRC LCL and external urban microclimate research to provide the evidence base for cooling strategies for major...

RP2028: Development and trial of a co-benefits calculator

Project Leader: Professor Mark Stevenson, University of Melbourne

This project will develop a co-benefit calculator to measure the health and productivity performance of precincts.

RP3001: Resource Consumption and Household Affordability - The Changing Nature of Utility Costs and the Distributional Implications Among Australian Households

Project Leader: Professor Terry Burke

This project will assess the trends in household energy and draw insights into energy usage patterns.

RP3002: A Framework for Low Carbon Living Community Policy & Program Development

Project Leader: James McGregor

This project will develop software tools relating to commercial building energy efficient retrofits and government interventions.

RP3003: Low Carbon Living Spatial Data Hub

Project Leader: Prof. Bill Randolph

This project will research opportunites for a hub to store and process data from CRCLCL projects.

RP3004: The potential of deliberative democracy to improve government decisions, policies and programs, and transform Australian attitudes regarding low-carbon living

Project Leader: Prof. Janette Hartz-Karp

This project defines and gives examples of deliberate democractic low carbon living initiatives.

RP3005: CRC Living Laboratory Framework

Project Leader: Dr. Stephen White

This study defines Living Laboratories, their benefits and what they need to be successful.

RP3006: Education Scoping Study: Survey and gap analysis of existing low carbon education programs

Project Leader: Tomi Winfree

This study identifies key areas for improving s takeholders' understanding of low carbon built environment issues .

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RP3007: Opportunities and challenges for the development and implementation of community-scale renewable energy projects

Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. Mark Disendorf

This project will study what conditions help or hinder the expansion of community-scale renewable energy.

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RP3008: Visions and Pathways 2040

Project Leader: Prof. Christopher Ryan

This project will explore and articulate visions, scenarios and pathways for a low carbon and resilient Australian built environment.

high performance housing

RP3009: High Performance Housing - Monitoring, Evaluating and Communicating the Journey

Project Leader: Prof. Peter Newman and Dr Josh Byrne

This project will translate the accessibility of high performance, zero emissions homes into mainstream development and construction industry...

RP3009e1: Mainstreaming High Performance Housing

Project Leader: Dr Josh Byrne and Professor Peter Newman

Residential housing is a major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, most during building operations.

RP3010: Building Low Carbon Communities (Blue Mountains)

Project Leader: Associate Professor John Merson

This project worked with Blue Mountains tourism businesses to identify opportunities to reduce their emissions .

RP3010u2: Low Carbon Living – Blue Mountains Program transfer to the Southern Highlands of NSW

Project Leader: John Merson

The Blue Mountains Low Carbon Living Program is being transferred to the Southern Highlands of NSW.

RP3010u3: Low Carbon Communities program (Phase 2)

Project Leader: A/Professor John Merson

Develop an operational, technical and business framework for the LCL Australia Program, in order to simplify the transfer process in conjunction with...

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RP3011: Community Carbon Reduction and Wellbeing Enhancement

Project Leader: Dr. Robert Salter

This multi-site living laboratory will research the barriers to and drivers of engaged communities for low carbon living.

RP3012: Environmental Attitudes - Low Carbon Behavioural Practice

Project Leader: Yoshihisa Kashima

The project aims to understand cultural and social mechanisms for transformation to low carbon living.

RP3015: Team-Based and Game-Based Mobile Learning

Project Leader: Professor Peter Graham

This project will trialing the efficacy of team-based and game-based mobile learning.

RP3016: The EnergyFit Homes Initiative: Empowering consumers

Project Leader: Dr Nina Hall

This project examines the factors that motivate the purchase and lease of low carbon homes.

RP3017: Adelaide Living Laboratory Hub

Project Leader: Professor Wasim Saman and Dr Kathryn Davidson

The Adelaide Living Laboratory Hub seeks to engage stakeholders and provide pathways for low carbon living.

RP3017u1: Insight into the property valuer’s perspective of energy efficiency in housing

Project Leader: Dr Kathryn Davidson and Catherine Kain

This project aims to develop an understanding of the valuation process and the effect of energy efficiency initiatives on overall value of a property...

RP3019: Pathways to Achieve Low Carbon Living Outcomes Through Collaborative Urban Development Planning in Australia.

Project Leader: Margaret Gollagher

This project will examine stengths and weaknesses of collaborative urban planning processes for carbon reduction across Australia.

RP3020: Influencing change through a low carbon schools community program

Project Leader: Dr Vanessa Rauland

This project will examine components of a Low Carbon Schools Pilot Program being trialled in Perth.

RP3020e1: Influencing change through a low carbon schools community program

Project Leader: Dr Vanessa Rauland

This project will track and evaluate how schools can reduce their carbon emmissions from energy.

RP3020u1: Mainstreaming low carbon, high performance schools and classrooms

Project Leader: Dr Vanessa Rauland

This project seeks to identify and recruit schools to a national Low Carbon Schools Program for launch in 2018.

RP3021: Media and Communication Strategies to Achieve Carbon Reduction Through Renovation of Australia’s Existing Housing

Project Leader: Professor Kath Hulse and Dr Aneta Podkalicka

This project will develop and assess communication strategies to drive adoption of low carbon renovation projects.

RP3021u1: Application of CRCLCL social research to activate the uptake of low carbon housing via popular mass media communications

Project Leader: Ivana Brown, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage

This project seeks to bring together a critical mass of knowledge developed within the CRC for Low Carbon Living (CRCLCL) to drive consumer demand...

RP3022: Policy impediments and incentives for effective education and training in LCL

Project Leader: John Fien

This project will analyse current policies and incentives for low carbon living education in Australia.

RP3023: Community Power: Understanding the contribution of community-owned renewable energy to regional development

Project Leader: Professor Bronwen Morgan, UNSW

This project explores community-owned renewable energy projects to understand their social, economic and environmental impacts.

RP3025: Sydney TAFE Carbon Reduction Website

Project Leader: Rick Duynhoven, TAFE

This project will provide knowledge and skills training to support action on low carbon living.

RP3028: A “Virtual Market” for Analysing the Uptake of Energy Efficiency Measures in Residential and Commercial Sectors

Project Leader: Dr Andrew Higgins

This project will model the uptake of low carbon technologies and practices under different market interventions.

RP3029: Driving a National Social Media Conversation on Energy Efficient Housing

Project Leader: Anthony Wright

This project proposes a national conversation on energy efficient housing across a range of social media platforms and television.

RP3029e1: Driving a National Social Media Conversation on Energy Efficient Housing- Stage 2 (the Build4Life Project)

Project Leader: Anthony Wright

This project furthers RP3029 to prototype a social media platform designed to build mainstream support for low carbon housing.

RP3031: Information, Risk and Retrofit: Energy/Carbon Disclosure at the Building Retrofit Investor – User interface

Project Leader: Dr Chris Heywood

This project will identify benefits from information mechanisms like voluntary or more frequent disclosure.

RP3033: Mainstreaming Low Carbon Housing Precincts – The White Gum Valley Living Laboratory

Project Leader: Professor Peter Newman and Dr Josh Byrne

This living laboratory project will follow the development process at White Gum Valley with a view to mainstreaming low carbon outcomes.

RP3033u1: Legacy Living Lab - visualisation of smart data and peer-to-peer trading of local renewable energy and alternative water systems from WGV and beyond

Project Leader: Professor Greg Morrison

The real-time visualisation of peer-to-peer trading in solar energy and shared water systems is being funded by the CRC for Low Carbon Living (CRCLCL...

RP3033u2: Utilisation of WGV Living Lab Performance Data

Project Leader: Dr Josh Byrne, Curtin University

This new project will develop an open source data access platform that will enable ready access to the performance data by end-users such as industry...

RP3033u3: Cost-benefit analysis of carbon emission from the upscaling of Blockchain based P2P energy trading

Project Leader: Professor Greg Morrison

This utilisation project will enhance the City of Fremantle’s knowledge on social and environmental impact of upscaling peer-to-peer (P2P) energy...

RP3034: Community co-design of low carbon precincts for urban regeneration in established suburbs

Project Leader: Dr Stephen Glackin, Swinburne University of Technology

Intensification of development that is required in established and occupied inner and middle suburban greyfield areas (retrofit) is the great...

RP3035: Modelling the Uptake of Water Conservation and Efficiency Measures in Sydney

Project Leader: Magnus Moglia, CSIRO

This project aims to reduce urban water and wastewater impacts on energy usage.

RP3038: Lower Income Barriers to Low Carbon Living

Project Leader: Professor Bruce Judd

This project looks to identify barriers different low income households face in reducing their carbon consumption.

RP3039: Liveability Real Estate Framework Training and Professional Development

Project Leader: Cecille Weldon, Centre for Liveability Real Estate

This project aims to develop online ‘residential property marketing’ modules that can be incorporate into existing real estate, design and...

RP3043: Beyond WGV: Community Battery Storage

Project Leader: Prof. Peter Newman, Curtin University of Technology

This project addresses battery storage integration and governance at a district scale.

RP3044: Mainstreaming Low Carbon Retrofits in Community Housing: Second Generation Decision-Support Resources and Processes

Project Leader: Prof. Paul Cooper, University of Wollongong

This project will assist community and public housing providers with regards to low carbon retrofits and refurbishments.

RP3045: Living Labs Coordinator

Project Leader: Prof. Greg Morrison – Curtin University

The funded CRC LCL Living Labs are tasked with demonstrating the pathways that demonstrably reduce carbon emissions in Australia’s Built Environment.

RP3049: Housing Construction Industry Roadmap

Project Leader: Luke Reedman, CSIRO

A coalition of sustainability leaders including the Australian Sustainable Building Council's (ASBEC) Sustainable Housing Task Group, the NSW Office...

SP0006: Built Environment Impact Framework and Decision Making Tool

Project Leader: Lauren Haas and Dr Maria Balatbat

This project will deliver an analytic framework incorporating social, environmental and economic impacts into decision-making.

SP0008: Low Carbon Built Environment Knowledge Hub

Project Leader: Professor Peter Graham and Amanda Lawrence, Swinburne University of Technology

Knowledge Hub for the low carbon built environment

SP0008e1: Developing a Methodology for Systematic Review and Establishing Synthesis Methodology in Built Environment - Towards Evidence-Based Practice and Policy

Project Leader: : A/Prof Shinichi Nakagawa

Evidence-based practice and policy have enriched and benefited our life and society. However, research evidence is not necessary put into practice in...

SP0008e2: Developing a methodology for systemic review and establishing synthesis methodology in the built environment

Project Leader: Professor Peter Graham

Phase 1 of this project was about investigating the issues faced by those wanting to use evidence in policy and practice decision making, in the...

SP0009: Policy and Regulation for Low Carbon Outcomes in the Built Environment

Project Leader: Philip Harrington, Strategy.Policy.Research

A study comparing Australian and global best practices in policy and regulation for the built environment.

SP0009u1: A best practice policy toolkit for net-zero emissions buildings

Project Leader: Jonathan Cartledge, GBCA

The aim of this project is to achieve greater impact for industry and academic thought leadership on best practice policy for emissions reduction in...

SP0012: Strategic Study on the Cooling Potential and Impact of Urban Climate Mitigation Techniques in Western Sydney

Project Leader: Prof Mat Santamouris, UNSW

Our study is evaluating the potential for urban heat mitigation technologies to make a difference to urban temperatures in Western Sydney.

SP0012u1: Sydney’s ‘Third City’ – strategic planning for advanced climate mitigation and energy consumption

Project Leader: Scientia Professor Mat Santamouris, UNSW

In response to questions raised by the Greater Sydney Commission (GSC), this project will investigate and analyse climate mitigation and energy...

SP0012u2: Preliminary design of a Smart Climatic Road in Phillip Street Parramatta

Project Leader: Scientia Professor Mat Santamouris, UNSW

The proposal aims to pre-design and optimise a smart climate street in Parramatta, Phillip Street, exhibiting high climatic, environmental and energy...

SP0012u3: Cooling Sydney

Project Leader:

A key direction of this project and of the planning for Sydney 2050 is to ‘live with our climate’. Within this, extreme heat is identiﬁed as the one...

SP0016: Building Code Energy Performance Trajectory Project

Project Leader: Suzanne Toumbourou

This project will assess the value of pursuing ambitious energy performance trajectories for new building work by modelling potential cost-effective...

SP0017p1: Energy Efficiency Decision Making in the NSW Social Housing Sector

Project Leader: Dr Edgar Liu (UNSW) and Professor Paul Cooper (UoW)

Seeks to understand institutional, structural, material and perceptual opportunities and barriers to decision-making of NSW social housing providers...

SP0017p2: Energy Efficiency Decision Making in the NSW Transport Sector

Project Leader: Professor Pascal Perez, University of Wollongong

Aims to understand consumer behaviour regarding vehicle purchasing, to anticipate responses to government interventions for energy efficient vehicles.

SP0017p3: Mapping the decision-making processes to identify barriers and drivers to meet or exceed BASIX requirements of new builds

Project Leader: Dr Lan Ding, UNSW Sydney

The project's aim is to understand the complex decision-making process of builders and other factors required to meet or exceed the minimum BASIX...

SP0017p4 - Quantifying multiple impacts of energy efficiency

Project Leader: John Gardner

The research question(s) we will answer within the research need/gap context detailed above is/are: What are the most appropriate indicators of...

SP0017p5 - Urban heat islands (UHI) coupled with UHI effects of Solar PV

Project Leader: A/Prof Lan Ding

This project engages in the assessment of urban development impact on urban heat islands (UHI) coupled with the UHI effect of solar PV. It will...

SP0017p6 - Improving Fuel Efficiency in the NSW Road Transport Sector

Project Leader: Prof. Vinayak Dixit

This project will focus on the review of options (mandatory standards, voluntary standards, information campaigns, financial incentives) to improve...

SP0017p7 - Developing the baseline for the overarching CCF evaluation

Project Leader: Dr. Tillmann Böhme

The NSW government is required to report on the market impact of NSW Climate Change Fund (CCF) energy programs through a rigorous evaluation...

SP0018: Utilisation of Energy Efficiency Policy Adoption Diffusion Modelling

Project Leader: Magnus Moglia

A range of previous CRC projects (RP3028, RP3035, RP2021 and RP3002) have attempted to understand the diffusion of pro-environmental behaviours...

SP0019 Low Carbon Guides

Project Leader:

These are a series of practical guides summarising best practice in various phases of the building lifecycle - construction, retrofit, operations -...

SP0020p1: Government Procurement for Sustainability Outcomes

Project Leader: Phillip Harrington

This project builds on the results of CRC LCL project SP0009 (Policy and regulation for Low Carbon Outcomes in the Built Environment) to look at...

SP0021 - Emissions intensity accounting

Project Leader: Phil Harrington SPR

This project proposal addresses a rapidly-growing anomaly in the way that greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity consumption (Scope 2...

SP0023p3 - Consult Australia Innovation workshops

Project Leader: Megan Motto

Commissioners of infrastructure projects in Australia are seeking innovative solutions to increasingly complex challenges including low carbon goals...