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Industry Consultant Jim Houghton from Hire Thinking has undertaken analysis on the Victorian Building Authority Permit data to make market share comparisons on building material permit d…
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On current trajectories, Australia faces the prospect of being consistently unable to meet demand for new housing, because of a persistent and growing gap between demand and supply of sawn s…
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With the recent publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report providing more evidence of the need for urgent action to address climate change, Austr…
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The introduction of Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) method has the potential to directly assist Australia in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by incentivising greater use of sustain…
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The project aim was to create a competitive platform to enable a significant increase of hardwood use by the Australian building and construction sectors. This was to be enabled by designing…
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This project identifies drivers for, and barriers to, the increased use of prefabricated timber building (PTB) systems in Class 2 to 9 commercial buildings, such as apartments, hotels, off…
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This study undertook an analysis of net benefits obtained from increasing the height allowances for the deemed to satisfy (DTS) provisions in the National Construction Code (NCC) for timbe…
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This project undertook a Cost-Benefit Analysis of three randomly selected FWPA-funded research projects. They were assessed against three investment criteria: Net Present Value (NPV),…