28 February 2019 The Gisborne Herald: Real Health Difference
“I remember a young family who had about seven children, who told us they would often be taking a child to hospital at least once a week, due to the...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Mar 2019
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27 February 2019 Warm Healthy Homes Related Blogs
With the government finally raising the standard for existing homes in an attempt to lower the horrible health impacts for tenants of cold homes there has been quite a bit...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Mar 2026
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27 February 2019 Scoop: New healthy homes standards are just the beginning
We have a lot of homes to fix in NZ and Sustainability Trust is estimating that “100,000 rentals will be exempt from installing insulation due to the cost of accessing...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Mar 2019
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26 February 2019 Scoop: New Rental Housing Standards put improving health outcomes
“There is clear evidence to support minimum standards for indoor temperatures” “Housing quality has a tremendous impact on our health and wellbeing.” Content by Scoop....
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Mar 2019
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21 February 2019 The Fifth Estate’s Willow Aliento: Passive House and Three Deep Dives: Phil Harris, Erwin Boermans, Daniel Kress
Good responses and ones I’ve heard in New Zealand as well. Change our building code in NZ to be equivalent to Passive House in a stepwise fashion; allowing the industry...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Feb 2019
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20 February 2019 Stuff’s Virginia Fallon: At least 16 years of leaks revealed for Kapiti library now closed due to mold
“At least 16 years of leaks, and months of staff health concerns, preceded the closure of a Kāpiti Coast library due to dangerous mould.Despite visible white mould, dripping walls, rotting...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Feb 2019
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PHPP Version 9.6 has now been tested pursuant to ASHRAE 140
“PHPP Version 9.6 has now been tested pursuant to ASHRAE 140, which qualifies it as an acceptable energy modelling software under a variety of regulatory systems” This means that...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Aug 2019
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20 February 2019 Envirotecture: South Pacific Passive House Conference 2019
The South Pacific Passive House Conference in Wellington was epic and is going to help move the bar with high performance building in New Zealand and Australia. Andy pulled together...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Mar 2019
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TVNZ RENEWSNZ video on Passive House
The video can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/renewsnz/videos/252930218953512/ “These houses are heated and cooled for the same price as running your fridge. It’s called a passive house, and its secret is...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Feb 2019
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15 February 2019 Home Style Green’s Matthew Cutler-Welsh: From Rocket Science to Building Science
“House supply is pretty complicated” “The housing market is designed to maximise profit, not to maximise the number of houses built.” This was a really fun interview and folks continue...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Feb 2019
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14 February 2019 The Fifth Estate’s Nick Lane: The case for passive homes as a national standard
“The energy policies and building standards that govern our homes need to keep us comfortable and limit global warming. Passive house, a rigorous building standard for ultra-low energy buildings, ticks...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Feb 2019
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07 February 2019 RNZ: Passive houses: warm, dry and sustainable, so why not more?
“If you just take Passive House technologies and just smack (them) into a building without doing modeling and knowing how it’s going to work you can actually cause some problems”...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Mar 2019
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04 Feb 2019 Pure Design’s Grant Watson: The Minimum Standard
“For those who don’t know, the New Zealand Building Code is the minimum standard for a new building in New Zealand. Just read that again slowly….”the…..min…i…mum…standard”!” “The true answer is...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Jun 2019
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PH4NZ – Comments
Comments both good and bad (polite) are welcome. Especially where clarification is needed or errors are found. Return to the Table of Contents...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Feb 2019
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31 January 2019 Consumer’s James le Page: Fixing the New Zealand Building Code
“Each newly built house that that only just meets our meagre Building Code potentially leaves the new and successive owners living in uncomfortable, unhealthy conditions. “ “Having proper ventilation is...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Feb 2019
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30 January 2019 Wellington. Scoop: Overheating in your new home – yes you should check
High performance homes are designed to use the least amount of energy possible to keep the occupants comfortable and healthy. We carefully select the windows their shading and details of...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Feb 2019
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29 January 2019 Scoop: Insulation boost means more warm dry homes
Good to see after all the research that has been done about poor quality of housing impacts on health that the government is up to speed. Now we need to:...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Feb 2019
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29 January 2019 Boston Green Ribbon Commission’s Miriam Wasser: Boston aims to be carbon-free by 2050. Here are 5 takeaways from a new report
NZ is in the lucky position to already have a significant ~80% of our energy from renewables. Given that and lacking a full engineering analysis city-by-city report we can tell...
by Jason Quinn
Updated: Mar 2026
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