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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...

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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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2016 August 1 Prefab NZ: Unipod Open Source Bathroom Pod

This is one way to save a considerable fraction of build costs if it is done at scale. Of course, I’d argue for putting those savings into a better building...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Aug 2020

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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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