HIA GreenSmart Leaders are national companies who support the HIA GreenSmart Code of Practice. These companies work across Australia to deliver sustainable products, housing and communities that incorporate the best of HIA GreenSmart.
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HIA GreenSmart Partners are national manufacturers and supplier companies who support the HIA GreenSmart Code of Practice. These companies work across Australia to deliver sustainable products for the housing industry that incorporate the best of HIA GreenSmart.
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HIA GreenSmart Foundation Partners are national companies who have supported the GreenSmart initiative since its inception in 1999. These companies typically work across Australia to deliver sustainable products, housing and communities that incorporate the best of HIA GreenSmart.
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HIA GreenSmart is proudly supported by companies and organisations committed to embracing environmental leadership through the HIA GreenSmart Code of Practice.
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HIA GreenSmart is proudly supported by companies and organisations committed to embracing environmental leadership through the HIA GreenSmart Code of Practice.
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Crace, Canberra’s newest green suburb, has become the latest GreenSmart accredited project under the HIA GreenSmart program.
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Was it just a year or two ago that homes going up for sale had queues at the door of each exhibition; that agents of properties for auction were besieged with desperate buyers trying to close the deal ahead of the scheduled date? How times have changed.
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A reader with an expanding family is seeking advice on turning a small utility room into a bedroom for a twenty-something daughter who has just returned home after living away at university followed by 12 months of travel. Since she left her twin brothers, who used to share, now have bedrooms of their own.
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How productive is your back garden? Have you toyed with the idea of getting some return from your patch of dirt but reluctantly decided you just don’t have the time or energy, or that the area is too small to make it worthwhile?
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Australians now drink more wine (per person per glass) than Britons, Americans and New Zealanders. A survey has shown that in a four-week period 55 per cent of Australians of drinking age drank, on average, 21 glasses. Clearly we are becoming a wine drinking nation.
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It seems that the bushfire season is getting longer with every passing year, to the point when there is no longer any time when residents in fire-prone areas can relax their guard.
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The property market has slowed considerably and homeowners are wondering whether the cost of their planned improvements will be recouped when they sell. The answer is: It depends on the improvements.
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A shower is great for getting you awake and sparkling for the working day, or for a quick freshen-up before a night on the town, but it’s hard to beat the therapeutic value of a nice long soak when there is time to spare.
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With climatologists warning our summers are going to get ever hotter and the drought seemingly endless, there is a lively debate in progress over the future of backyard swimming pools.
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Easy to maintain, efficient and simple, patios can be calming, private places that allow you to unwind after a long day at work.
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