Building Sustainably
The Council provides a range of information and assistance for those wanting to build sustainable homes or buildings and/or modify existing structures using eco friendly or sustainable materials.
Introduction
The Council has helped research and review a number of documents which provide a framework for building sustainably. These include:
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If you are designing a new home or doing major renovations you need to supplement the material presented here, with reliable professional advice. The extra cost of commissioning a registered architect and a registered master builder is usually repaid by the knowledge, experience and security they bring to such a major investment.
Sustainable Homes
There are a growing number of good examples of
sustainable homes incorporating examples of passive solar
design, insulation, double glazing, solar hot water, water
reuse, energy efficiency, materials for a healthy home,
co-housing, and permaculture.
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Eco-Friendly Home,
Glen Eden, Waitakere City - new home design
Green Bay, Waitakere City
- retro-fitted bungalow, photovoltaic system (Size 1121K)
Earthsong Eco Neighborhood, Ranui, Waitakere City -
co-housing, rammed earth houses.
Arhaus,
Hobsonville, Waitakere City - new energy efficient and
healthy home
Now
Home, Olympic Park , New Lynn , Waitakere City - new
home design
Totara Bank , Masterton, Wairarapa - low impact energy
efficient development
The
Sustainable House, Sydney, Australia - renovation of a
100 year old terrace into a sustainable home.
Eco-Design Advisor Service
for free advice
Heritage Design Group - retro-fitted art deco home
and office, photovoltaic and solar systems, rain water
harvesting and more
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us if your organisation or project would like to be
included on this page.
Sustainable Living Centre
The Sustainable Living Centre is a standard 1970s state
house which has been retrofitted to showcase demonstrations
and displays of sustainable water, energy and waste
management systems that can be implemented in most urban
homes.
The main aim of the Centre is to provide visitors with
practical tools and knowledge, so that each visitor can
easily apply their own understanding of what they have
learnt, to their own homes and within their daily lives.
Click here for more information on the
Sustainable Living Centre and the courses it offers.
Sustainable Public and
Commercial Buildings
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New Lynn Community Centre, New Lynn, Waitakere City
- Massey
Leisure Centre and Library, Massey, Waitakere City
- West Wave,
Henderson, Waitakere City
- Waitakere Hospital, Henderson, Waitakere City
- Waitakere Central, Henderson, Waitakere City
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Glen Eden Library, Glen Eden, Waitakere City
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Sustainable Buildings in the Auckland Region (Size
1000K)
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Waitakere Central
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Civil Defence and
Emergency Management Headquarters
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contact
us if your organisation or project would like to be
included on this page.
Tools for Urban Sustainability: Code
of Practice (TUSC)
The Tool for Urban Sustainability: Code-of-Practice (TUSC)
project will provide Developers, Practitioners, Policy
Makers and Compliance Officers a single user-friendly
web-based Engineering and Planning tool that will deliver
cost-effective urban sustainability outcomes in both new
developments and urban retrofit or intensification projects.
In working towards this goal, TUSC plans to:
- simplify the development planning process;
- disseminate evidence and examples of sustainable
urban development and techniques that heighten awareness
and influence societal attitudes towards sustainability
principles;
- offer a range of effective concept design choices
for community planners, developers and home-owners to
achieve sustainability goals;
- guide users through selection of appropriate
technologies and design choices by use of a scorecard
system;
- efficiently assess development proposals using
integrated analysis tools against clearly stated
benchmarks and indicators;
- produce a single flexible and expanding database for
local environmental data, treatment technologies,
monitoring and baseline information, policies goals and
objectives, analysis models and tools, and presentation
techniques and interfaces;
- develop a new national best practice approach that
will be widely adopted and ultimately legislated.
View the Tools for Urban Sustainability: Code
of Practice (TUSC) and the TUSC online tool
Organisations
Building Biology and Ecology Institute of New
Zealand.
The Institute's past director Reinhard Kanuka-Fuchs contributed significantly to the Sustainable Home Guidelines and the Eco-friendly Home.
The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) provides useful information on energy issues.
The Building Research Association of New
Zealand (BRANZ) provides research and information to the building industry.
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