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Fletcher Building launches low-carbon housing pilot

News | Fletcher Building’s landmark low-carbon (LowCO) housing pilot in Auckland marks a significant step towards reducing its carbon footprint and improving our housing stock.

Housing Summit 2024

News | The New Zealand Green Building Council Housing Summit will take place on Wednesday 22 May at the Aotea Centre, Auckland.

Editorial: Anatomy of a sinkhole

People | A 100-year old broken pipe leading to catastrophic waste-water contamination in the Waitematā raises concerns for how Watercare will manage our biggest city’s aging drains.

Green commons

Projects | John Walsh visits the Toiora High Street Cohousing project in Ōtepoti Dunedin, by Architype, and finds a connection to a timeless tradition of shared space.

One year on: Motueka’s net zero community hub

Projects | Jerram Tocker Barron Architects Motueka Public Library is a sustainable net-zero building that fulfilled a complex brief for just under 3.8 million.

Rethinking awards

Review | Chris Barton wonders when the profession will fully address the urgent imperatives facing the industry.

New Visions of Work: Orgatec 2022

Review | A team from Wingate Architects who attended this year’s Orgatec trade fair, held 25-29th October in Cologne, share what’s in store for the working world.

Tauranga to be home to largest timber office building

Projects | Tauranga City Council’s new office building is set to be the largest mass timber office building in New Zealand and will target a net zero carbon footprint.

Allproof’s new solar panel install saves 50 tonnes of C02 every year

Allproof undertake massive solar panel install

News | The 449 solar panels installed in their Auckland manufacturing facility is considered a huge milestone for the plumbing product company.

Huge hangar promotes sustainability

Projects | Profile Group’s new 5 Green Star-rated Hautapu manufacturing facility provides a simple response to the challenge of creating infrastructure of vast scale.

Te Whakaoranga o te Puhinui wins international recognition

News | An ambitious plan to regenerate a polluted Auckland waterway has recently been recognised at this year’s Asia Pacific International Federation of Landscape Architects awards.

Building for climate change: Meeting the architectural challenges

Practice | Peddlethorp’s Manuel Diaz identifies some of the challenges and opportunities facing architects under the New Zealand Government’s Building for Climate Change programme.

Passive, active and simple

Practice | Ferdinand Oswald explores three research pathways to sustainable housing design and how they might fit in with the Aotearoa climate.

Kāinga Ora announces first Passive House development

News | Architects behind the project, Peddlethorp, report that the Passive House public housing development in South Auckland is the first public housing project funded by Central Government in Australasia.

Future Thinker of the Year 2021 announced

News | Meredith Dale, urban strategist at Auckland-based firm The Urban Advisory was recognised by the New Zealand Green Building Council (NZBGC) for her “passion and clear vision”.

The technology of the trees

Projects | Chris Barton finds at Scion’s Innovation Hub, Te Whare Nui o Tuteata, in Rotorua – by RTA Studio, in collaboration with Irving Smith Architects – a showcase of radically new methods in multilevel timber construction and a benchmark for achieving net-zero embodied carbon.

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