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Provides a comprehensive guide to community recovery in Australia.

A design led, place-based and person-centred approach to good housing in Queensland.

The Where We Build What We Build project is supporting the Resilient Hills and Coasts (RH&C) region by enabling assessment of the climate risk exposure of homes and encouraging better climate risk mitigation decisions.

This project aims to encourage building or retrofitting of homes that are climate-ready, by demonstrating.

This Certifier Practice Standard is prepared by the Commissioner for Fair Trading under section 14 of the Building and Development Certifiers Act 2018 (B&DC Act); Section 14 provides that a registered certifier’s conditions of registration may require the certifier to carry out certification work in accordance with specified standards or methodologies prepared by the Commissioner.

The objective of the Smart and Sustainable Homes program is to demonstrate and promote the importance of investing in sustainable design and to increase the demand from owners, builders and developers for more sustainable development practices.

Contains information on mold prevention and remediation.

This Guide is intended to supplement to the "Criteria for the Passive House, EnerPHit and PHI Low Energy Building Standards" ("Criteria") published by the Passive House Institute and posted online; it explains the Criteria's require-ments given here in a brief and precise manner.

Provides guidance to inspecting persons (e.g. building certifiers and competent persons) and builders about how to meet their inspection responsibilities under the Building Act 1975 (BA) and the Building Regulation 2021 (BR).

This information is for general application, for specific instances a Certifier should be consulted.