There are 5 passive house principles which form the base for Passive House Design. They are Airtightness, Quality insulation, Quality Windows, No Ther...
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Recently I attended the BRANZ seminar for Medium Density Housing. It was such a valuable session with many experts bringing their experience, ideas, a...
Why you should consider Homestar I recently became a Homestar Assessor with the New Zealand Green Building Council. NZGBC like Smart Living Spaces,...
The conversations in our New Zealand building industry are touching on the many changes and challenges that we are facing. Our homes historically have...
Last week the NZGBC hosted a free webinar on Ready for 2023: Homestar, H1 and Building for Climate Change. The thing that struck me the most is that t...
I have had a number of interesting conversations about what a Passive House is, so I decided to write a blog about it. The definition of a Passive ...
The recent pushback on H1, Energy efficiency in the New Zealand Building Code has raised awareness both inside and outside the construction industry. ...
This was my takeaway from the NZGBC Housing Summit 2022. I have often had conversations with people who say that Homestar as a mainstream evaluation t...
As our recent shift to thermally broken aluminium frames in the New H1 Energy Efficiency requirements comes into effect in our built environment in th...
It was a long day in a bus in what a old collegue called a “jealously of Architects”. Apparently, that’s what a group of Architects ...
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