Home builders push for easier energy standards
Michael BlebyDeputy property editor
Volume builders are pushing for a compromise in emissions standards in the updated version of the country’s building code that would make it easier and cheaper than the proposed requirement to meet seven-star thermal efficiency standards.
The Housing Industry Association says building industry ministers, who will make a final decision in July, have accepted its proposal to insert a so-called whole-of-house assessment of energy efficiency in the National Construction Code.
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