The Bond University Mirvac School of Sustainable Development

Current and Recently Completed Research

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