New Zealand Green Building Council

Kiwi Property achieves 9-star Homestar Built rating at Resido BTR: btrnews.au/kiwi-property-… cc @NZGBC #btrnewsau #btr #buildtorent #esg #residential #sustainability #newzealand #newzealandbtr #newzealandbuildtorent #environmental

The Government’s vital second Emissions Reduction Plan released today offers a step up from its first draft, but fails to include easy wins and opportunities for slashing building emissions. Read our full response - nzgbc.org.nz/news-and-media…

It is promising to see that the potentially disastrous rollback of insulation levels is not moving forward.  Importantly the new consultation on H1 insulation standards looks to abandon the restrictive schedule method for complying with the Building Code nzgbc.org.nz/media-releases…

Tackling mould and damp in homes is a huge win for Kiwi families, and major opportunity to reduce health costs and pressure on the system. For every dollar spent by Health NZ, there was $5.07 in health savings over the following five years. 1news.co.nz/2024/11/29/tac…

An April briefing warned Minister Penk a voluntary approach would not drive down emissions, and result in higher costs long term. The second Emissions Reduction Plan will be released next month. Buildings offer low-cost solutions to slash our footprint businessdesk.co.nz/article/climat…

Govt to consider emissions from buildings in final climate plan newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/14/gov…

Government told to reduce household gas usage to save industry, via @nzherald | @coughlthom nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/go…

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We're alarmed to hear the govt is considering a U-turn to insulation standards, decreasing the standard of NZ's already poor housing. “It’s effectively ripping insulation out of our children’s homes, out of the homes of future generations" @eaglesandrew rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Budget 2024 delivers on some of the Govt’s election promises, while cutting costs on key initiatives such as energy efficiency, LEDs and hot water heating support, and the Carbon Neutral Government programme. Here’s our take on the Government’s 2024 budget nzgbc.org.nz/news-and-media…

What are the chances? Serious boost to ECE, bipartisan strategic planning, energy efficiency ratings for buildings ... there are good things Nicola Willis could announce today, if she wanted to. Bonus "living in hope" column, @nzherald premium and paper nzherald.co.nz/nz/five-ways-f…

The building industry has been told that New Zealand's building code is designed for a climate that no longer exists. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Some beautiful slides from Sam Brown from Arete Architects describing his design process for delivering high performance, sustainable homes with @NZGBC Homestar v5. Ka rawe! #housingsummit24

A full room for a full day of discussion, presentations, and leaders getting behind a greener, better built Aotearoa.👋Housing Summit 2024! #BetterHomesNZ #HousingSummit24

Improving building standards, and making buildings more energy efficient will reduce emissions equivalent to taking half the country’s petrol cars off the road, the Green Building Council says. thepress.co.nz/business/35028…

“Without real, emission-busting policies like the ones we’re proposing, New Zealand will have no choice but to pay billions of taxpayer dollars for international carbon offsets – effectively funding other countries to reduce emissions,” @eaglesandrew

“The Climate Change Commission has warned we’re way off meeting our second 2030 emissions target. These basic policies will reduce emissions equivalent to taking 600,000 cars off the road in the next five years, accounting for a third of the reductions we need,”@eaglesandrew says

A new report out today shows introducing policies to improve building standards, phase out gas, and make energy use transparent could saving billions in offsets and playing a major part in meeting our international obligations. Read our full report - nzgbc.org.nz/news-and-media…

“After today’s experience there’ll be a lot of talk about new electricity generation. It’s vital that actually we look at one of the major causes – cold, inefficient housing,” @eaglesandrew says.

Research from @otago shows actually if we built to best-practice standards, as the majority of the OECD are, we could reduce winter peak by 75% by 2050. That’s huge pressure off the grid, but would also be a massive win for NZer's health and cost of living newsroom.co.nz/2021/09/29/cut…

“It’s like watering a garden with a leaky hose filled with holes. We can turn on more water, but what’s the point if we don’t stop the leaks?”@eaglesandrew