Tag: Sustainability
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The Living House: February 2019 edition
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Rochelle Payne gives the sixth update on her family’s endeavour to build a Passive House in Beachlands, Auckland.
Leading the Industrial Re-revolution
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Climate Take Back is resilient flooring company Interface’s global response to climate change. Learn more…
New tool launches to assess home quality
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The Green Building Council is encouraging industry professionals to get behind a new initiative to improve Kiwi home quality.
The eco-ethical house: part two
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Four New Zealand designers weigh in on processes and products for creating more eco-friendly homes.
The eco-ethical house: case studies
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Take a look at three houses which were designed to be kind to the environment.
The eco-ethical house: part one
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We investigate sustainable practices and reliably sourced, eco-friendly homewares and materials.
Letting nature cool
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Designing buildings that behave as if they were part of nature is a way of thinking that might help us cool the planet.
World Green Building Week 2018
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Public Event
24 Sep 2018 to 30 Sep 2018
The New Zealand Green Building Council presents a host of events around the country from 24 to 30 September.
The New Zealand Green Building Council presents a host of events around the country from 24 to 30 September.
Wellington building wins green award
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Aorangi House took home a top award at the World Green Building Council’s Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards.
‘The way of the future’: E-mobility
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Transport is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand; how can companies explore alternatives?
How carbon sequestration can help us
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Using already existing CO2 to produce building materials is not far off. Explore how the process might help our planet.
Eco icon: Sydney terrace house
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A home shared by humans, cats, chickens and fish combines cutting-edge architecture with off-the-grid green initiatives.
The Living House: August 2018 edition
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Rochelle Payne brings us the fifth update on her journey to create the Living House: her family’s Beachlands Passive House.
Pukehina: From farmland to Eco Village
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Landscape architect Richard Hart speaks about designing for the proposed Pukehina Eco Village in the Western Bay of Plenty.
FESTA partners with the NZIA
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The Festival of Transitional Architecture returns to Christchurch, now in collaboration with the NZIA Canterbury branch.
Buildings for the better
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The NZGBC released an exciting new Green Star rating tool for the existing building market at an event in late November.
Green star rising
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Amelia Melbourne-Hayward caught up with Andrew Eagles, head of the NZGBC, to take the green pulse of the industry.
Welcome to the Living House
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Rochelle Payne introduces the Living House, a rammed earth home that is targeting three sustainability rating tools at once.
The future of green building
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Camille Khouri reviews the NZGBC and Property Council’s Green Property Summit 2017, held in late March in Auckland.
Transitional architecture
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Barnaby Bennett reviews the fourth Festival of Transitional Architecture, held late last year in Christchurch.