Response 1065464157

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What is your name?

Bryce Parker

What is your organisation? (if applicable)

Bryce Parker Homes Pty LTd

Which best describes your industry sector?

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Building Commercial
Building Residential
Building Commercial and Residential
Building and plumbing products
Building Certification/ Surveying
Architecture and design
Engineering
Plumbing
Compliance, testing and accreditation
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Specialist - energy efficiency
Specialist - fire safety
Specialist - health
Specialist - hydraulic/ plumbing
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Trades and other construction services
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Residential energy efficiency

Question 1

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Option 1
Option 2
Neither
Please explain your response and provide additional information to support your view.
The only true option to reducing energy consumption is working towards a zero annual consumption method for related building services and heating and cooling

Question 2

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Yes
No
Please explain your response and provide additional information to support your view.
This performance requirement along with the current star rating system is failing to really assess orientation of dwellings, shading from neighbouring fences, trees, houses that can dramatically change the heating and cooling loads required.

Question 3

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Yes
No

Question 4

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Yes
No
Please explain your response and provide additional information to support your view.
DTS needs to be applied to a limited dwelling size to allow for renovation/extensions works to still be feasible.

Question 5

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120 square metres
300 square metres
Other
If other, please specify.
Renovation/extension
Please explain your response and provide additional information to support your view.
I think the threshold should be related to renovation/extension of existing dwellings to ensure that these works are still viable for home owners and we are not placing unreasonable costs.

Question 6

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Yes
No

Question 7

Please select all that apply
An elemental pathway with basic DTS Provisions, likely for limited application to buildings under a certain size and alterations and additions.
A NatHERS compliance pathway which includes necessary DTS elemental provisions.
An expanded and more detailed ‘reference building’ Verification Method.
Whole-of-house ‘tools’, such as BASIX and the Victorian Scorecard.
Other Performance Solutions.

Question 8

Please rank these from 1 to 2
DTS elemental provisions
2
A NatHERS compliance pathway which includes necessary DTS elemental provisions
1
‘Reference building’ Verification Method
Other Performance Solutions

Question 9

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BASIX
Victorian Scorecard
Other

Question 10

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Yes
No
Please explain your response and provide additional information to support your view
I think that a comprehensive consideration process needs to be investigated, this would include but not be limited to NatHERS accredited hole of house tools

Question 11

Please select all that apply
Yes, renewable energy equipment
Yes, electric vehicle charging
No
Please explain your response and provide additional information to support your view.
I believe that trying to make a dwelling capable to accomodate future technology will become cost prohibitive and may not end in a greater uptake of this equipment. There is also substantial chance that by the time the owner chooses to fit the equipment, the provisions may be outdated and no longer compliant and need to be changed to suit.

Question 12

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I think that the current star rating system is drastically flawed. If we are looking at making dwellings consume less energy thn we need to look at the embodied energy that is used to produce the materials we are using. There is no point in producing a home that consume less energy if the the materials used produce the equal or greater amount of energy saved. Thermal perfomance in a whole of house solution should not be the only consiberation to the rating a material is given. Much greater consideration needs to be given to rewnewable resources when looking at overall dwelling performance.