Energy Efficiency Provisions for BCA 2010

The 2010 Building Code of Australia (BCA), which took effect on 1 May 2010, includes increased
stringency placed on energy efficiency. The code will require all new houses to be built to a six-star
energy efficiency rating equivalence and apartments will be expected to obtain an average rating
of six-stars or equivalent.
The ACT Chapter Sustainability Committee have organised 2 seminars on these enhanced energy
efficiency measures. The first seminar will cover non-residential construction and second will
cover residential construction.

About the speakers.......


Dr Peter Lyons is a building physicist based in Canberra, Australia, with extensive experience in a range of fields and employment sectors. He applies this experience to a wide range of unusual and challenging projects, among new and existing clients -- both local and overseas. His expertise has been acquired locally and internationally, and is applied in both individual and team settings across façade engineering and sustainable building design. Dr Lyons specialises in energy performance modelling of all types of fenestration systems and of whole buildings, both residential and commercial. One of his continuing research interests involves the impact of glazings on human comfort in buildings. Peter Lyons & Associates was formed in January 2006 to offer a wide variety of specialised services involving building energy performance.

Dr Paul Bannister is managing director of Exergy. Paul is internationally renowned as an expert in building energy management and has experience in over 400 building projects, in various roles, including:
oEnergy auditing of commercial and institutional buildings, including offices, hotels, universities and hospitals;
oLeadership in energy efficient design, through operation as an independent design reviewer on nearly 100 projects as well as a core-team ESD design advocate on numerous significant projects;
oSupervision of computer simulation of building design in use for the assessment of design options and prospective new building performance
Paul is an ABGR/NABERS auditor and accredited Independent Design Reviewer for ABGR, with a key ongoing role in the development of the rules and underlying logic of the ABGR/NABERS schemes.
Paul is author of over 60 publications in the field of energy use and has a significant international profile. He has presented on energy-related topics in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, the US, Canada and the UK.

Local Institute member, Trevor Lee is the Director of Energy Partners. Trevor is an architect who has directed himself to energy issues in the built environment since his graduation with Honours from the University of Melbourne in 1976. From 1985 to 1989, as the Senior Architect for Energy Management of the Commonwealth's construction authority (then called the Department of Construction), he prepared a series of in-house publications including those on setting energy targets for new buildings and associated media releases. From 1989 until 1995 he served as editor of "Solar Progress", the quarterly journal of the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society, (ANZSES) and from 1996 to 1998 was honorary chair of that organisation. He was also a founding director and later Vice-President of the Sustainable Energy Industry Association (SEIA) which merged with kindred organisations in 2001 to become the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE, now the Clean Energy Council). He has also served as an executive director of Australian Ethical Investment Ltd, (ASX code AEF) manager of unit trust and superannuation funds now totalling over $550 million, from 1991 until 2003 and as a non-executive director for 2004.
He was involved as technical adviser to the ACT Government for the first four years of its ground-breaking mandatory house energy rating scheme (applied both at building approval stage for new dwellings and at the advertising for sale stage for existing dwellings) and a consultant to government and commerce for the energy auditing of existing buildings and simulation and energy analysis of building proposals. He is also co-author of the Australian Solar Radiation Data Handbook 1995 and its full revision in 2005 for ANZSES as well as providing technical direction for the updating of the Australian Climate Data Bank (ACDB) in 2005-6 for energy simulation applications and for the spatial definition of 69 associated climate zones covering the whole of Australia. He also oversaw the expansion and update of the ACDB to 80 locations in 2008.