The Bond University Mirvac School of Sustainable Development

Australian Research Centre for Sustainable Property, Planning and Infrastructure

Mission

The research centre aims to develop knowledge and awareness of the interrelationship between planning practice, property development and environmental, social and economically sustainable development and design.
It aims to leverage on the unique opportunity at Bond University both due to it’s location in the fastest growing region in Australia, but also by developing synergies and value added attributes offered by linking with the dynamic industry base existing in South Eastern Queensland and the Gold Coast.

Summary of Recent Activities

Recent projects to be commenced and/or completed in the research centre are as follows:

  • “Economic, Environmental and Social Psychological Evaluation of Independent Senior Living Alternatives in Australia”
  • “Remembering the Past, Imaging the Future: Embedding Narrative and New Media in Urban Planning”
  • “Strategic Assessment of Building Design Adaptive Reuse Opportunities”
  • “Private sector provision of affordable rental housing for older people: do ‘affordable rental villages’ show the way?”
  • A joint project with Community Housing Queensland on the impact of housing affordability was started in late 2006 and completed in May 2007.
  • A joint project with the Brisbane City Council on inclusory zoning.
  • Australian Property Institute Research Trust fund in Canberra.
  • AIQS Study into Quantity Surveying professional education, competencies and directions, in conjunction with Rider Levett Bucknall, Brisbane.
  • “Planning Policy & Affordability in Brown Field Sites” (Brisbane City Council)
  • Queensland Community Housing Coalition – Affordable Housing Survey
  • Joint Green Building Council of Australia – Survey of Green Buildings