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27 May 2018 Wanganui Chronicle – Home is where the heart(and the heat) is by Rachel Rose

I think the epic quote from this article could be paraphrased as  “Your brand new home might still be cold, damp, and bad for your health”. I think that’s a...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Mar 2026

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23 April 2018 Stuff’s Will Harvie: The applied science of super energy-efficient Passive Houses

“Building a super energy-efficient Passive House requires careful planning, design and applied science. “ “It’s just a house,” says Glenn Murdoch, design director at Theca Group. “There’s nothing special that...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Apr 2019

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10 April 2018 South Pacific Passive House Conference

If you missed it, the South Pacific Passive House Conference in Melbourne this year was a fantastic conference. We participated through leading a workshop on advanced PHPP the day before...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Aug 2018

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06 April 2018 Superhome Movement’s April Newsletter

At the request of the Superhome Movement, Sustainable Engineering Ltd. has put together a technical proposal to build the mathematical model underlying the cool Superhome housing performance dashboard.   “Superhome housing performance...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Aug 2018

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13 March 2018 Stuff’s Rexine Hawes: First Passive House concept in Matamata helping to change building industry

Good article on a great house. Brick veneer is tricky to get right without creating the potential for mould at the slab edge. This design team got it right on...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Dec 2018

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14 February 2018 The Harvard Gazette’ Colleen Walsh: Your building might be making you sick. Joe Allen can help

“We watched how they made plans and decisions and accessed information relative to what was happening to see if they could be strategic in their thinking and we found really...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Mar 2026

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12 September 2017 South Pacific Passive House Conference

Our director, Jason Quinn, presented a joint paper with Clare Parry on lessons learned on the South Pacific Passive House Conference in 2017 in Christchurch. Their presentation “Lessons learned from...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Aug 2018

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March 2016 Organic Magazine’s Low Energy Homes

This article features our Director, Jason Quinn, there was a lot to condense into this article. The one additional comment he wishes had made it into the article was that...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Mar 2026

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20 September 2012 InHouse Magazine: Your Client Wants a Passive House?

We drafted this article for InHouse Magazine back in 2012 on our first Passive House project, Passive House Taupo. Kim Feldborg, who is now a friend of ours, has designed...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Aug 2018

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21 August 2012 Taupo Times article on Passive House Taupo a “heating bill … less than that old beer fridge”

“Jason Quinn estimates the heating bill for Passive House (Passivhaus) Taupo will be less than running that old beer fridge out in the shed.” In 2018, after 4 winters, we...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Aug 2018

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