Capturing sustainable housing characteristics through Electronic Building Files: The Australian Experience

This paper presents an Australian Government pilot project in 2015 to develop and test a web-based Electronic Building Passport to capture energy efficiency and sustainability related information on residential buildings in the design to hand-over phases of their development and construction. The paper will discuss the key findings of this trial, in terms of (i) local government goals and responsibilities; (ii) available metadata compared with Code required data; (iii) technical benefits and limitations of the online data management system; (iv) data and information sharing, pri-vacy and security; and (v) recommendations for future work.