A new demand-supply model to enable sustainability in new Australian housing

Abstract

Sustainability implementation in new housing in Australia lags much of the developed world's standards and implementation levels for residential sustainability. Various reasons for this are offered via a 'blame game' in a sector plagued by lack of demand, prohibitive costs, and poorly implemented existing energy efficiency regulations. Multiple gaps in traditional supply-led procurement theory inhibits sustainability's implementation in the Australian mass production residential construction system. Once-off consumers are not the key demand actor due to their inability to demand sustainability in a system that limits consumers' choice and demand. Warren-Myers and Heywood (2016) theorized tha..