Don't forget our future climate when tightening up building codes
- Written by Deo Prasad, Scientia Professor and CEO, Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living, UNSW
Australia's new National Construction Code doesn't go far enough in preparing our built environment for climate change.Sergey Molchenko/Shutterstock
Too often it takes a crisis to trigger changes in legislation and behaviour, when forward thinking, cooperation and future planning could have negated the risk in the first place. Australia’s...
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