Project and Case study section of the Australian Green Development Forum (AGDF) website, featuring both AGDF research ventures, as well as links to sustainability related projects and studies from other companies.
The AGDF is a non-profit association whose goal is to increase the use of sustainable practices in the Australian building and development industry.

http://www.agdf.org.au/projects.asp





The Centre for Subtropical Design is involved with a range of projects directed towards developing and refining our understanding of what the community and the industry interprets to be appropriate subtropical principles and applications of subtropical design. The included listing summarises each of these projects.

http://www.bee.qut.edu.au/research/themes/collab/csd.jsp




The paper reports findings from a small social study about the experiences of a family who lived in “Research House”, Australia, for a two year period monitoring product performance and household economies in a sustainable house. [PDF] Article published in the Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society in 2005. Authors are Laurie Buys, Karen Barnett, Evonne Miller from Queensland University of Technology, and Chanel Bailey from the Research House Project.

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/sbs/ajets/journal/V3N1/pdf/
V3N1-4-Buys.pdf




The Healthy Home demonstrates how a more environmentally friendly home can be built using existing off the shelf technologies. The website contains lots of information, aimed at people who are new to sustainable housing, but there is also a lot to interest architects, engineers and commercial builders. Major sponsor of the Healthy Home Project is the Sustainable Industry Division Partnership Program of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Queensland.

http://www.healthyhomeproject.com/