The Smart & Sustainable Homes program is a Queensland legacy of the national Year of the Built Environment (YBE 2004) - a year that highlighted the need for our built environments to become more sustainable through improved design and function.
The Smart & Sustainable Homes program aims to provide communities throughout Queensland with display houses that practically include the principles of sustainable design.
In a national first, the program is a collaborative partnership between State and local governments and key housing industry stakeholders. A range of supporters are also involved with each project, such as product sponsors and technical consultants.
The program has adopted the Queensland Government’s definition of ‘sustainable housing’ which is:
'planning, designing and building dwellings to make them more socially, environmentally and economically sustainable'.
By applying sustainable housing design principles, we can all work towards the creation of more sustainable communities.
These demonstration projects use the Queensland Government’s Smart Housing Design Objectives as minimum design criteria to ensure that they deliver on the principles of sustainable housing and achieve best practice examples at their regional level that people can easily relate to. This is building for the 21st Century.
Currently, 30 local projects throughout Queensland are actively participating in the Sustainable Homes program. Each demonstration home is identifiable by the Sustainable Home title that precedes its locality e.g. Sustainable Home Toowoomba, Sustainable Home Brisbane etc.
Given Queensland’s continued population and housing growth predicted in the year’s ahead, it is more important than ever that communities embrace smart and more sustainable housing design to reduce their environmental impacts and better plan for our ageing population.
Sustainability is now clearly on the agenda for a growing number of homeowners, designers, tradespeople, product suppliers and urban developers. Indicatively, the program enjoys widespread support from industry bodies, councils and communities throughout the state.
Last updated August 2008
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