Governments are rushing to encourage construction of many more apartments, to manage shortages of rental properties and associated high prices. I am not
Alan Pears, who led many of the energy efficiency movements in Australia is not impressed at Australia's very slow progress towards better housing. In fact even the new National Construction Code of Australia's 7 star NatHERS standard that states are refusing to implement in a timely manner would be illegal in many parts of Europe and parts of the US, he says.