BASIX

Beyond aesthetics and functionality, designing a home requires sustainability. Residential buildings in Australia produce over 10% of the country’s carbon emissions and consume 24% of overall electricity use, according to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW).  The good news is 89% of Australians believe that a sustainable lifestyle is important. […]

The world is moving toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Australia is looking ahead to becoming a renewable energy leader. Those aspirations are totally feasible, but they cannot happen without the success of incremental initiatives like BASIX.  What is BASIX?  BASIX is the Building Sustainability Index, a program that aims to reduce the environmental

If you are just relocating a house, then you don’t need a BASIX certificate. If you carry out alterations and additions to the house after relocation or to make it suit the new site, then you would need a BASIX certificate for the alterations. But if you just place it on the site as is,

Back in March of this year we posted an article about major changes in BASIX in relation Large Boarding Houses. The big change was that BASIX was no longer required for this class of building. However, since then clients contacted us to say they had been on the BASIX web site where it stated that