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Australia won't meet net zero goals without a national approach to home thermal efficiency: report (www.rmit.edu.au)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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An RMIT University-led report, commissioned by RACE for 2030, assessed current challenges related to home thermal efficiency improvements.

The report recommends several priorities to help Australia reach its goal of net zero by 2050, such as improving how we build new homes and how households prioritise and undertake thermal upgrading of their homes.

While the introduction of the new seven-star energy efficiency building standards is a necessary step to improve new homes, Rajagopalan said more needs to be done during the design and construction stage of building to ensure each home is thermally efficient.

A potential solution was creating a "One-stop shop" on how to embark on retrofitting your home and the benefits of a thermally efficient home from verified sources.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha heating to 18C right now during the winter, it's 3-10C at night and 13-19C durung the day. Aussie here too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which part of Aus? Sounds cold. What's the house made out of?

Did you see that article about how anything under 16 is bad for your health?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm in a cold part of Sydney. The house is brick (single brick in many areas), the floor has no insulation and neither does half of the ceiling. Thermal camera shows brick walls at about 12C while it's 20C outdoors. Typical indoor temperatures without heating are single digit most of the time, maybe peak at 12C for the day.

Do you have a link to this article?

Edit: why the downvotes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate the downvotes too. I dont understand why we need them in small communities. I'll go looking, Lemmy's search isn't great.

I'll edit it back in soon.

https://aussie.zone/post/355545 - Guardian article. I talk about our place in there, which sounds similar to yours but in QLD. We get to near 0 in Winter. Warm days though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Even under 18 is regarded as bad.

Personally I'm in an old brick apartment in Brisbane and this time of year it's regularly below that indoors. I can physically feel the air leaving through the gaps under the front door or under the sliding glass windows. The insulation is just terrible.