New Zealand Green Building Council - NZGBC

04/10/2026

Davina from Green Building Council Australia drops some insightful 🏢🇦🇺 knowledge on our Better Places Aotearoa podcast, listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

01/10/2026

Shannon and Bobby weigh in further on our green building model, how existing buildings have impactful avenues to becoming more sustainable.

30/09/2026

Once three vacant carparks — now a dynamic model of sustainable, socially-driven urban design.

Te Pākau Maru in suburban Christchurch showcases a pathway for high performance mixed-tenure residential projects.

Read the case study below:
https://nzgbc.org.nz/case-studies/te-pakau-maru-homestar-7

30/09/2026

Head of Environmental Sustainability at Goodman, Tom Slade is helping shape the resilient building and urban biodiversity regeneration space. Since moving from London to Auckland in 2010, he’s been part of the Goodman NZ team, leveraging his experience in financial analysis, real estate fund management and the urban property sector.

Tom’s a key player in advancing Goodman’s smart, green pathway in Aotearoa’s industrial property marketplace. Amongst other roles he’s a NZGBC Green Star Advisory Committee member and a board trustee for Resource Recovery Devonport.

Read more:

Discover how Tom Slade is driving sustainability in Aotearoa's property sector, enhancing building efficiency and promoting urban biodiversity.

28/09/2026

How is your home coping with rising temperatures? Get in touch with us to share your experience.

Every year thousands of new homes are built across New Zealand - with no consideration of overheating required.

We’re shocked the issue won’t be part of a regular Building Code review in 2028, and instead won’t be considered until 2031. There's a simple fix – and we don’t need to wait this long.

Children and vulnerable adults are in sweltering and unhealthy conditions.

Read more below:

Advocates for people living in overheating new builds are dismayed that officials will not consider comprehensive changes to fix the issue until 2031.

23/09/2026

We’re pleased to see that the decision on whether the government would support developing a new LNG terminal has been put on hold until after the election. Our research clearly shows clearly that distributed energy is cheaper than LNG - and reduces costs for Kiwi families.

And that was based on prices before the Iran war sent them soaring!

Importing gas and other fossil fuels is not energy independence. Every dollar spent on LNG from global markets is a dollar that leaves New Zealand, does not create local jobs, and does not build the modern, distributed, energy system our economy needs.

Thank you to all our members for backing this work and helping make our advocacy count. 🌿 🏡

22/09/2026

Creating a more sustainable built environment takes collaboration and good friends.

That's why we're excited to announce McKechnie and Omega Windows as NZGBC's first Impact Partners.

As founding Impact Partners, their support helps us deliver events, industry conversations and engagement opportunities that connect people, share knowledge and accelerate progress across the sector.

Their expertise in aluminium building products and high-performance windows and doors helps deliver better buildings, and their partnership helps strengthen the conversations, events and educational opportunities that are moving our sector forward.

Thank you, McKechnie and Omega Windows, for sharing our vision and commitment to making progress.

Find out more about our Impact Partner programme: https://nzgbc.org.nz/impact-partners

Pictured Andrew Eagles, Kat Richardson, Brad Crowley, Daniel Karlson

21/09/2026

This is a really important point from Resident Builder Peter Wolfkamp . Just because you've built a new home, it doesn't mean it will be energy efficient. If you model upfront, you could save yourself a whole lot of pain, and energy.

17/09/2026

17/09/2026