The Building for Climate Change public consultation kicked off on Monday. It’s hugely more important than words like ‘consultation’ and ‘frameworks’ make it appear. It’s a once in a generation programme to transform the building sector, and slash the climate change pollution emitted by our sector.
Together with you, we've been demanding improvements to the New Zealand building code for years. MBIE has now launched their first two frameworks around how the building and construction sector can reduce embodied carbon, and increase the operational efficiency of buildings. If you want our buildings to be better, healthier places, then you should read them in full, and have your say by 30 September.
Green Star in focus: The case for sustainable industrial buildings published by New Zealand Green Building Council and Green Building Council of Australia, warns of the increasing risk of significant industrial assets becoming stranded if they can’t show that they are low or zero carbon.
Thanks to everyone who shared their knowledge, expertise and experience with us in our recent Homestar consultation. It was, by a large margin, the most successful consultation we’ve ever run, and your feedback will help us to refine and improve Homestar, and will inform the changes we make for the new version.
Join thousands of New Zealanders this September as we celebrate World Green Building Week with a series of thought provoking events, tackling big, topical issues. Our sector has a key role to play in tackling era-defining problems. And that’s what makes this year’s World Green Building Week so vital. If you are planning your own event, be sure to let us know, and do use our creative resources found on the event page.
To celebrate Te Wiki o Te Teo Māori join us online as we bring together an expert panel to discuss how we can all embed Māori design and language in our built environment.
The Green Star Practitioner online course is now live and available for you anytime, from anywhere in Aotearoa. This follows the Homestar Practitioner online course, which became available in July. And we’ve prepared a free introduction module to the Green Star Practitioner course.
A huge thanks to Fatma Abdelaal for stepping in to do an amazing job over this busy and complicated year. She is returning to University of Canterbury to complete her PhD studies. We are delighted to welcome Ting Li back to the Green Star team as manager for commercial buildings, which she says is "easier than managing babies at home".
An important new research programme has received a major grant from the Health Research Council to work on interventions that will help all New Zealanders live in warm, dry, mould-free and safe homes.
The global engineering, management, and development consulting firm is one of 100 businesses, organisations and governments from around the world committed to net zero carbon buildings by 2030. Warner Brunton writes about what this commitment means here in Aotearoa.
A Green Star interiors certification goes beyond the base building and verifies the sustainability of the space where your employees spend much of their time. Fonterra moved from five work sites to one to house 1400 employees. Congratulations to all the project teams involved.
Nominations are now open for next year's National Association of Women in Construction awards. This is a fantastic opportunity to recognise your best workers.
The 2020 Climate Change + Business Conference will explore the extent to which businesses, policy-makers, and civil society have seized the opportunity to transform our future. NZGBC members get a 10% discount.
