Retrofitting for Sustainability - Does it Work?
Abstract
To develop a truly sustainable built environment, there are two issues to take into account. In Australia, new buildings, which are now regulated in terms of their anticipated carbon footprint, do not account for existing building stock, and are a relatively small proportion, about 20% in 2003/04. (R. Horne, H. Stanley, N. Willand and C Maller, 2008). So there has been no control over the majority of the existing residential building stock, and most of it has been constructed without and certainly prior to any energy efficiency requirements or regulations.