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09 May 2019 Stuff’s Brittany Keogh: Housing in NZ: what’s legal and what’s not? the basic standards every home must meet
What’s the absolute legal minimum in NZ – no worse or legally it’s not a house. For new buildings it is whatever your team can sneak past council under the guise of meeting the NZBC minimums but at least someone is checking something. For existing buildings what is the minimum? Hope you don’t consider NZ Building Code a target. Landlords …
08 May 2019 Science Media Centre Expert Reactions: NZ Zero Carbon – NZ now needs policies making new homes Passive House
The Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill, designed to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to under 1.5C over the next 30 years, was introduced to New Zealand Parliament on 8th of May, 2019. Science Media Centre sought expert response: Associate Professor Ivan Diaz-Rainey, Climate and Energy Finance Group, University of Otago, comments: “What we need now are policies. Policies …
PH Window Installs
Window installs watch Florian and Skyler install a Passive House window into a home. Notice the good explanation of the aluminium cut back distance to allow over insulation of the aluminium clad timber frame. uPVC social housing installs with winbag tool. Sometimes different ways of doing things can just strike you at how quick and efficient they can appear.
03 May 2019 Stuff’s Virginia Fallon: ‘It’s a write-off’: Kāpiti Coast council reveals yet another leaky, mouldy building
These leaky buildings are most often caused by failures in E2 design where rain penetration into the building assemblies (i.e. walls and decks etc) have caused internal mould and sometimes rot and then the building becomes a ‘writeoff’ as the one in the article is. In our research and consulting we explore the potential risks with E3 (internal) moisture and …
23 April 2019 The Fifth Estate: Monash delivers biggest passive house building
“It’s the first building to combine cross-laminated timber with passive house” (in Australia) “There are five key principles that guide the passive house approach which were used on the project: Airtightness, Continuous insulation, High performance glazing, Heat recovery ventilation, and A thermal bridge-free façade” Great to see a larger project completed. Although the article doesn’t go into the technical details …
New Zealand Green Building Council: Net zero carbon buildings
NZGBC announces working with Enviro-Mark Solutions to create a net zero carbon building measurement. This consultation sets out our thoughts on how we intend to include the concept of net zero carbon buildings in our rating tools – Green Star and NABERSNZ – and introduce a formal net zero certification for buildings. If you’d like to respond to the questions in this …
24 April 2019 Stuff’s Rino Tirikatene: Warmer, drier homes for renters this winter
Warm dry and healthy. I think the general public is starting to grasp that this shouldn’t be an optional feature of homes. “The aim is to help ensure all Kiwi homes are warm – everyone needs to the ability to heat their home – dry – no one should live with toxic mould – and healthy.” “Across New …
Certified Passive House design required for Queenstown Luggate Memorial Hall
Although this media release doesn’t mention it the Queenstown Lakes District Council has been methodically reviewing the costs and benefits of Passive House for some time. After this review and discussion with industry experts the business case for certified Passive House was recommended to council and successfully made it through the Council decision making process. Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) …