housing

How Chinese courtyard housing can help older Australian women avoid homelessness
Rolf_52/Shutterstock Samantha Donnelly, University of Technology Sydney et Hugo Chan, UNSW Australia urgently needs housing (...)

International Passive House Conference - The key to a healthy climate
The 25th International Passive House Conference will take place from September 10-11th in Wuppertal, Germany, and online (...)

[Green Solutions Meetup] Low-carbon construction or renovation: what solutions?
On September 14, capitalising on the Propel by MIPIM event – an important meeting point between the "game-changers" of real (...)

Co-creating in Austria and Catalonia
The EU project HOUSEFUL has completed its first set of workshops with housing sector experts from Austria and the Barcelona (...)

What makes an Efficiency Houses Plus?
With its Efficiency House Plus initiative, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community is giving new impul (...)

Life in lockdown has shown us our houses need to work harder for us
As we’ve been living more closely with families and house mates through COVID-19, the more intensive ways we’ve used our (...)

The positive house. Casa SN (Arco, Italy) is the first Zero Energy certified building in Europe
Can a building produce more energy than it consumes, exclusively from renewable sources? Certainly! This is demonstrated (...)

RE4 project: WEBINAR 3 - How to build a fully recycled house
Build a fully recycled house? Yes, you can with RE4 prefabricated building elements incorporating up to 100% of constructi (...)

[Hot climates - dossier] #18 - An operation for renewed housing in French overseas departments
In the French overseas territories, a large proportion of the population, subject to various constraints, has settled in (...)

Housing renovation plan will be ‘flagship’ of European Green Deal
A housing renovation programme, aimed at reducing energy consumption of buildings, will be “one of the flagships” of the (...)

Affordable housing lessons from Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore: 3 keys to getting the policy mix right
Affordable housing is a critical problem for Australia’s biggest housing markets. Five Australian cities are in the top (...)

Addressing the Affordable Housing Crisis Through Digital Innovation and Technology
Undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges facing Canadians today is affordable housing. To address this issue cities will (...)

The edges of home ownership are becoming porous. It's no longer a one-way street
More than in many countries, in Australia home ownership has traditionally been seen as a journey, with most of us aspiring (...)

Australia’s still building 4 in every 5 new houses to no more than the minimum energy standard
New housing in Australia must meet minimum energy performance requirements. We wondered how many buildings exceeded the (...)

Australia’s still building 4 in every 5 new houses to no more than the minimum energy standard
Trivess Moore, RMIT University; Michael Ambrose, CSIRO et Stephen Berry, University of South Australia New housing in (...)