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“The Whitlam GreenSmart village has brought to life the first display village in Australia to showcase 17 home designs that meet sustainable design excellence and also meet the new building code requirements that will start in October 2023,” said Greg Weller, HIA Executive Director, ACT/Southern NSW.
HIA was extremely pleased to present the ACT Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Housing and Suburban Development, Yvette Berry, and CEO Suburban Land Agency John Dietz, with the HIA GreenSmart Village accreditation at the official opening in Whitlam.
“HIA has worked closely with the ACT Suburban Land Agency to deliver a display village that includes 17 homes that meet or exceed the 7 star energy efficiency standard, have energy offsets with photovoltaic solar panels and battery storage, are designed to suit the orientation of the block and include a range of other energy and water efficiency features.
“Each of the 17 homes has received HIA GreenSmart House accreditation. This covers the design of the homes and the construction process.
“The homes are also designed to meet the silver standard for livable housing that will be mandatory for all new homes in the ACT next year. This means the homes include step free entry, wider corridors and doors, and bathrooms designed to provide more space for movement and future accessibility measures.
“The eight home builders in the village all completed HIA GreenSmart Professional training and have worked with HIA’s team to check the designs and inspect the homes during construction.
“The village started life before COVID and today’s official opening is a fantastic opportunity to award each home with their final HIA GreenSmart accreditation.”
HIA GreenSmart is a voluntary initiative of the Housing Industry Association which supports residential builders and the industry to understand sustainable design and construction and deliver to consumers a home that is comfortable to live in and efficient to run. Learn more
More about the Whitlam GreenSmart Village and tomorrow's public opening.
“NSW Housing Policy makers seem to be more interested in announcements than deliverables,” said Brad Armitage HIA Executive Director NSW.
“Governments across the country are making announcements aimed at improving housing supply and it is challenging to determine which policies will genuinely improve housing supply from those that are disguising new taxes,” said HIA Senior Economist, Matt King.
The severe weather event across the North Queensland east coast has seen disaster support activated for North Queensland communities by the Australian and Queensland Governments following days of relentless rain.
The residential building industry has welcomed today’s pragmatic decision by Minister Steel to limit third party appeal rights in the ACT to improve the supply of public housing - but now is the time to extend this approach to all similar housing projects.