Resources
If you need resources and guides tailored for sustainability, resilience in apartments, units, and townhouses, this page is your new best friend.
These resources have been collected with Victorian audiences in mind but they are collected from across Australia. Despite the different owners corporation legislation in each state and territory, there’s lots we can learn from each other.
Guide to Solar for Apartments
Whether you’re an owner-occupier or a tenant, if you live in an apartment or multi-unit complex in Victoria and you’re interested in installing solar, this Guide is for you.
Bicycle Parking Facilities: Guidelines
Section 3.3.2 Multi-Dwelling Residential of the Bicycle Parking Facilities: Guidelines for Design and Installation (2016) provides guidance relevant to apartment buildings.
Waste & recycling in Apartment communities: Guides & resources
Find the Sustainability Victoria Guide to Better Practice for Waste Management and Recycling in Multi-unit Developments, a range of ‘How to’ guides, instructional posters for your waste rooms, case studies and research reports.
Flood resilience strategies for apartment buildings
Following the 2022 Floods, Brisbane Sustainability Agency has developed comprehensive retrofit guidance for apartment buildings in flood prone areas.
There are practical flood resilience techniques that range in price and are suitable for most apartment building types.
Emergency Response Toolkits
Is your strata community prepared for a fire, lift failure or other disaster?
Owners Corporation Network, with support from the City of Sydney, has developed tools and guidelines to help your Strata Committee develop an Emergency Response Plan tailored to your community.
How to set up a resident communication channel
This short guide created by Reground will help you consider the best ways to communicate with and connect people who live and/or own in your apartment building.
Water guide for apartment buildings
This Guide explains where water is used, how it is metered and paid for, and what you can do to reduce water use in your building.
The Water Guide was developed by City of Sydney, however the insights are relevant for apartment buildings in Victoria.