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Green building

Hotel Britomart reaches full height

Friday 29 November 2019 by Bob Dey

Cooper & Co’s Hotel Britomart has reached its full 10-storey height and the construction focus has switched to completing the interiors for a mid-2020 opening.

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Filed Under: Britomart, CBD, Design, Green building, Hospitality, Hotels, Land use, Market, Neighbourhoods, Sectors Tagged With: 5 green star, Cooper & Co, Hotel Britomart

University researchers respond to sound insulation need arising from medium-density housing

Friday 18 October 2019 by Bob Dey

The Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) has awarded a team of mechanical engineers at the Auckland University engineering faculty’s Acoustic Research Centre $991,000 to create a new kind of partition material. The aim is to reduce the capacity of a wall to vibrate in response to sound, thereby providing better sound insulation, but […]

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Filed Under: Design, Green building, Land use, Sectors Tagged With: Acoustic Research Centre, Auckland University engineering faculty, partition material, sound insulation

Australian sustainable award winner looks unsustainable from Auckland

Wednesday 11 September 2019 by Bob Dey

What’s “affordable”? What’s “sustainable”?
The question on the first adjective is always open because it depends who you’re talking about. The second, it seems to me, needs to take climate into account and, for housing, the number & type of occupants.

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Filed Under: Design, Green building, Land use, Sectors Tagged With: sustainable award

Mighty Ape’s warehouse wins top green rating for Argosy

Tuesday 10 September 2019 by Bob Dey

The Green Building Council has awarded a 5 Green Star industrial built v3 rating to Argosy Property Ltd’s Mighty Ape warehouse in the Highgate Business Park, perched above State Highway 1 at Silverdale.

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Filed Under: Argosy Property, Design, Gainz, Green building, Land use, Neighbourhoods, North-east, Sectors, Securities - NZ, Silverdale Tagged With: 5 Green Star industrial, Argosy Property, Green Building Council, Highgate Business Park, Mighty Ape

Bank offers loan discount for higher Homestar ratings

Friday 12 April 2019 by Bob Dey

ANZ Bank NZ Ltd introduced a new factor to its lending policy today – a discount for lifting the construction standard.

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Filed Under: Banks, Construction, Design, Economy, Finance, Gainz, Green building, Housing, Interest Rates, Land use, Sectors Tagged With: ANZ Bank, discount, home loans, Homestar rating

New tallest wooden tower opens in Norway

Tuesday 19 March 2019 by Bob Dey

The Mjösa Tower in Norway has assumed the title of the world’s tallest wooden building after being officially opened last Friday.

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Filed Under: Construction, Construction, Design, Europe, Green building, Land use, Materials, Neighbourhoods, Overseas, Sectors Tagged With: tallest wood building

Code for smarter cities released

Monday 5 November 2018 by Bob Dey

The Smart Cities Council, covering Australia & New Zealand, and the Green Building Council of Australia released a new practice standard last week which they said would address issues relating to telecommunications connectivity, data insights, digital planning practices & innovation districts.

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Filed Under: Design, Green building, Land use, Sectors, Sustainability, Urban strategies Tagged With: code for smart communities, green building, smart cities

Precinct commits to Wynyard stage 2

Friday 2 November 2018 by Bob Dey

Precinct Properties NZ Ltd committed yesterday to stage 2 of its Wynyard Quarter project, part of the wider Innovation Precinct on the Auckland waterfront.

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Filed Under: CBD, Design, Gainz, Green building, Land use, Neighbourhoods, Precinct Properties, Sectors, Securities - NZ, Wynyard Quarter Tagged With: green design, Innovation Precinct, Madden St, Precinct Properties, slider, Wynyard Quarter

Housing to replace Henderson carparks attracts international designers

Wednesday 12 September 2018 by Bob Dey

5 teams have been shortlisted in a global design competition to redevelop 2 Henderson carparks into housing.

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Filed Under: Design, Green building, Henderson, Land use, Neighbourhoods, North-west, Regeneration, Sectors, Urban renewal Tagged With: Alderman, C40, carparks, Falls, Henderson, Penny Hulse, Reinventing Cities, slider

Avanda scores 6 Homestar rating at Airfields using bespoke checklist

Wednesday 20 June 2018 by Bob Dey

Chinese-owned housing developer Avanda Ltd, confirmed as the developer for stage 2 of the 20ha council-owned Airfields precinct at Hobsonville Point in February last year, is about to build the first homes awarded a 6 Homestar rating using a bespoke checklist.

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Filed Under: Design, Green building, Hobsonville, Land use, Neighbourhoods, North-west, Sectors Tagged With: 6 Homestar, Airfields, Avanda, Building Excellence Group, Hobsonville Point, Panuku, slider

Homestar v4 rating launched

Wednesday 26 July 2017 by Bob Dey

Green Building Council chief executive Andrew Eagles thanked the construction industry last night for an extremely robust response when the council sought feedback on its proposed upgrade of the Homestar standard.

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Filed Under: Construction, Design, Energy efficiency, Green building, Land use, Sectors Tagged With: Green Building Council, Homestar v4

Free assessments offered for NabersNZ ratings

Wednesday 9 November 2016 by Bob Dey

The Green Building Council is offering 60 free feasibility assessments for NabersNZ certified ratings in Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch.

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Filed Under: Design, Green building, Land use, Sectors Tagged With: NabersNZ

Addington refurb scores 5 star NabersNZ rating

Wednesday 10 August 2016 by Bob Dey

IAG NZ Ltd & Goodman Property Trust are the first to achieve a 5 star NabersNZ whole building rating for their Christchurch office at 14 Show Place, Addington.

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Filed Under: Design, Gainz, Goodman Property Trust, Green building, Land use, Sectors, Securities - NZ Tagged With: Goodman, IAG, NabersNZ, Show Place

Lendlease becomes Barangaroo tenant and promotes multi-storey timber office construction

Monday 1 August 2016 by Bob Dey

Lendlease Corp moved into its new headquarters in the 168-tall tower 3 of Barangaroo South’s International Towers on Friday. In June, it announced that the owner of 2 of the 3 office towers in the precinct would also acquire an innovative 6-storey engineered timber office building.

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Filed Under: Australia - NSW, Design, Gainz, Green building, Land use, Lend Lease, Neighbourhoods, Overseas, Sectors, Securities - overseas Tagged With: Barangaroo, Lendlease, multi-storey timber, slider

Te Puni Kokiri House wins energy award as savings returned to public purse

Wednesday 25 May 2016 by Bob Dey

Argosy Property Ltd’s internal retrofit of Te Puni Kokiri House in Wellington has won the building the Opus International Consultants public sector award at the annual Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority awards for its $7.9 million improvement in value and 30% reduction in energy use.

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Filed Under: Argosy Property, Design, Gainz, Green building, Land use, Sectors, Securities - NZ Tagged With: Argosy Property, EECA awards, NabersNZ, slider, Te Puni Kokiri House

Call for consistent Australian sustainability ratings

Wednesday 27 January 2016 by Bob Dey

The Australia Sustainable Built Environment Council called last week for a new nationally consistent rating framework for housing sustainability.

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Filed Under: Design, Green building, Land use, Sectors Tagged With: sustainable housing

New Homestar version targets apartment quality

Friday 13 November 2015 by Bob Dey

A new version of Homestar, the rating tool for New Zealand home sustainability, is intended to make it easier for apartment buyers to gauge the health & efficiency of their homes.

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Filed Under: Design, Green building, Land use, Sectors Tagged With: apartments, green building, Homestar

Meridian signs up to return to Christchurch cbd

Wednesday 19 August 2015 by Bob Dey

National electricity retailer Meridian Energy Ltd will return to an office in the Christchurch cbd next year after signing up for nearly half the office space in the 5-level Awly building, currently under construction.

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Filed Under: Canterbury, Design, Green building, Land use, Neighbourhoods, Sectors, South Island Tagged With: Agency, Awly, Christchurch cbd, Colliers, Market, Meridian, NabersNZ, slider

New guide aims for better building performance

Wednesday 1 July 2015 by Bob Dey

A new resource launched last night encourages tenants & landlords to join forces to create better performing, more energy-efficient buildings.

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Filed Under: Design, Green building, Land use, Sectors Tagged With: green building

Auckland’s waterfront – aiming to be the international exemplar

Monday 18 May 2015 by Bob Dey

Among the ironies of political & business life in Auckland, Waterfront Auckland sits at the forefront. As a council-controlled agency, its budget is always a target for reduction, yet its key role is the promotion of excellence.

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Filed Under: CBD, Design, Green building, Land use, Neighbourhoods, Sectors, Wynyard Quarter Tagged With: EECA, John Dalzell, LEED, slider, Waterfront Auckland, WQSmart

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