Testimonials
"The Property Council sees BASIX as a highly innovative approach to achieve sustainability outcomes through the development control system while also delivering real benefits to the industry including:...lower compliance costs...a consistent and logical environmental ask for industry based on research, greater awareness of what measures have significant environmental impacts and a basis from which incentives can be provided for superior environmental performance. We believe BASIX is a valuable tool which could serve as a potential model for other aspects of the planning system."
Ken Morrison
NSW Executive Director
Property Council
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"I commend...the NSW Government on the great leadership you are showing in the mandating of BASIX in NSW...Australians should no loner be able to regard the wastage of scare resources as a right. BASIX will not only help to refocus our attention on their importance, it will give very real and practical assistance in how to deliver better houses that will also respect [these resources]."
Caroline Pidcock
NSW Chapter President, RAIA
23 June 2004
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"We believe the targets set by BASIX are achievable with good design and the appropriate services and applications. The application of BASIX to individual houses will make a significant contribution to improved sustainability by reducing water and energy consumption. Stockland's Smart Living Display Village at Bridgewater, South Camden (site of the BASIX launch on 1 July 2004) demonstrates affordable, integrated sustainability initiatives that encourage adoption by the general project home market and add value for our buyers."
Denis Hickey
CEO Development Division
Stockland
1 July 2004
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"As BASIX has been tested...and progressively modified to recognise best practice, it has become a reliable and consistent method of measuring water and energy saving initiatives. BASIX, though it adds cost during the development phase, will deliver significant downstream savings to consumers, which over time will become more sustainable as the prices of energy and water inevitably increase."
Brendan Crotty
Managing Director
Australand
24 June 2004
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"I applaud the introduction of BASIX as a first step measure to addressing the need for a greater environmental conscience that can be delivered, in part, through the home building process. The system of BASIX...is reasonabley easy to use and through further practice will refine to a high quality tool to assist builders in delivering the desired outcomes."
Robert Barnaby
Group General Manager
Masterton Homes
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"[BASIX] heralds a new era for the building industry, not only in easing the approval processes for all involved, but more importantly, the setting of higher standards for design quality, which can ultimately be used to promote sustainable developments."
Board of Architects of New South Wales
May 2004 Newsletter
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"BASIX is the single biggest and most important change to hit this industry, probably forever."
Dick Clark
BDA NSW Director – Sustainability
June 2004
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"We totally endorse the idea of BASIX. BASIX provides a level playing field across all council areas and that´s a help to all builders and architects."
Tone Wheeler
Principal Architect
Environa Studio
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"Window manufacturers report that BASIX is already significantly raising homeowners´ and builders´ awareness of the very real importance of building energy efficient dwellings."
Ian Frame
Executive Director
Australian Window Australian Inc.
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"The BASIX law makes sustainable building mainstream. This means that house buyers will not have to battle builders and councils to get water and energy savings measures. And because there will be much more demand for energy and water saving appliances, solar hot water and rainwater tanks, these will become cheaper as production is ramped up. Further, there will be significant reductions in energy and water bills over the years, as people pay off their mortgages."
Jeff Angel
Director
Total Environment Centre
1 July 2004
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