Following the release of the CBD program expansion roadmap in October 2025, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (the department) has been progressing work under Stages 1-7 covering the high-priority actions of the roadmap.
The department is gathering information and hearing industry and stakeholder views on specific impacts of expanding the CBD Program to more office spaces, including office tenancies, and large hotels. The department has engaged Strategy Policy Research (SPR) to support this work. This targeted engagement is to inform our analysis of the costs and benefits of expanding the CBD Program to these segments in comparison to a ‘status quo’ baseline.
The department is particularly interested in the interaction between office building owners, facility managers and office tenants when completing NABERS ratings using the NABERS co-assess tool.
If you’re involved with the CBD Program, NABERS or commercial building energy efficiency you can:
- complete the below survey
- consider distributing the survey to other contacts in your networks to complete
- meet with the department to discuss directly. Please reach out to Commercial.Buildings.Team@dcceew.gov.au and an officer will organise a time to meet.
You can access the survey at:
https://consult.dcceew.gov.au/commercial-building-disclosure-expansion-impact-analysis
Open until Friday 18 December 2026.
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To read more about the CBD expansion, the roadmap or information about the current CBD program, visit the CBD program expansion page.