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April 2013
- Monday, 29 April 2013
Stranded asset - an asset that is worth less on the market than it is on a balance sheet due to the fact that it has become obsolete in advance of complete depreciation.
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March 2013
- Wednesday, 06 March 2013
I am delighted to be writing to you from Sydney where Green Cities is about to get underway.
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February 2013
- Friday, 01 February 2013
Welcome back to the start of a year that is going to be filled with energy and enthusiasm!
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November 2012
- Friday, 30 November 2012
The biggest news this month is the launch of the IPD/PCNZ Green Property Index on 7 November, which has started to prove the business case for certified green buildings in New Zealand.
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October 2012
- Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Housing affordability and urban regeneration are highly topical this week, with the Government’s response to the Productivity Commission on housing affordability announced on Monday, and the Auckland Conversations discussion about the economic factors influencing this, on Wednesday.
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September 2012
- Friday, 28 September 2012
How do we encourage investment in energy efficiency, leading to low carbon cities? It’s the subject that’s on my mind as we approach the piloting period for NABERSNZ, but it also connects with a number of other strands that we are grappling with at the moment at NZGBC.
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August 2012
- Tuesday, 04 September 2012
Last month I promised to let you know about Consense (conference of the German Sustainable Building Council, recently held alongside the World Green Building Congress in Stuttgart, Germany).
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June/July 2012
- Friday, 20 July 2012
I recently attended this year’s World Green Building Congress, in Stuttgart, Germany, held alongside the host country’s annual conference, in this case the German Sustainable Building Council’s Consense.
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April/May 2012
- Friday, 18 May 2012
It’s been a hard but remarkable year, with budgets being tightly held and no clear signal from central government that green building is on the agenda (but it doesn’t appear to be entirely off the agenda either). The good news is that this hasn’t stopped our strong supporters from continuing to develop, build and operate green buildings.
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March 2012
- Friday, 13 April 2012
We are delighted to announce to you that New Zealand’s building owners and tenants will soon be able to benchmark the energy performance of their office premises, with the introduction of NZ NABERS (National Australian Built Environmental Ratings Scheme) into the New Zealand market later this year.