Sumitomo Forestry has announced that its Australian subsidiary Henley Properties Group has become the first major Australian builder to install solar panels as a standard inclusion in all its homes. Source: Timberbiz
Henley Properties will promote ZEH in Australia with detached housing that uses energy generated by solar power generation to cover daily energy consumption. In addition, full electrification is now the standard specification, saving up to 75% of utility costs together with solar power generation.
These initiatives will reduce Scope 3*1 CO2 emitted during daily life by up to 100%. Sumitomo Forestry Group will promote the installation of solar power in Australia, starting with Henley Properties, and contribute to the decarbonization of society.
Henley Properties is a company that builds and sells detached houses and townhouses.
The Sumitomo Forestry Group operates a housing business in Australia through three companies— Henley Properties and Wisdom Properties Group in eastern states of Australia and Scott Park Group in Western Australia.
The Australian government is committed to achieving “net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050.” It is expected to revise the NCC (National Construction Code) from the current 2019 edition to the 2022 edition (to be announced in October and implemented in October 2023).
Sumitomo Forestry Group has already achieved a carbon negative position under Scope 1 and 2 through the absorption of CO2 emissions by the forests it owns and manages. The Sumitomo Forestry Group develops business operations centred on wood, from forest management through to procurement and manufacture of timber and building materials, wooden construction, and wood biomass power generation, in Japan and abroad.
