One person’s rubble might be potential material for Gap Filler’s new office. Sustainable Habitat Challenge (SHAC) and ReGeneration Trust New Zealand are collaborating to build an office for Gap Filler in Colombo St, Sydenham, with the help of volunteers and as many recycled or sustainable materials as possible. Gap Filler project co-ordinator Coralie Winn said [...]

The New Zealand Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) has developed a Home Energy Rating Scheme (HERS) for New Zealand households based on software simulation of energy loss and demand. The software requires hourly data to represent the differentclimates zones around New Zealand, especially for larger population centres. These climate data consist of hourly records [...]

    Intelligent water cycle for active climate protectionHow ingenious it would be if we could store and reuse the heat from the run-off shower and bath water that we use each day before it disappears down the drain forever! Now you can – with a heat recovery system from Hansgrohe. The Pontos HeatCycle system is [...]

A few simple building rules could have saved billions of dollars and kept thousands of people in their own homes after the Canterbury earthquake, Far North Mayor Wayne Brown says. The problems showed the complicated building codes of recent years were no help, because they were ignored or not understood. The excellent performance of old [...]

“It is not enough to design purely for life safety,” says Auckland architect Barry Copeland. “A resilient house, as well as surviving structurally through an earthquake, needs to continue its function as a family home.” In response to the Christchurch earthquake, Copeland, working with seismic engineer Barry Davidson and wastewater systems engineer Ian Gunn has [...]

BedZed Development:   Freiberg Housing   Medium Density Housing, Christchurch:   Frankton Proposal:   Existing Housing in New Zealand:   What We Can Do (Roger Buck)   Bricks Work – After 22 Feb Earthquake:   Urban Growth – Two Examples of Another Way [Article Submitted to the Christchurch Press on Urban Form] Although the evidence [...]

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CPIT is currently completing a scoping exercise to determine the size and shape of CPIT’s entry into the Shac 2011 competition. A brief has been given to students from CPIT’s School of Architecture to scoop and then present to the CPIT Shac committee. Current thinking on this project is that two units may be built, one with [...]