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Submission to Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment on the Building for Climate Change Framework

13/02/2023

As a group of professional engineers, Engineers for Social Responsibility Inc strongly endorses MBIE’s commitment to meet the government’s Carbon Zero targets by 2050, and the implementation of changes to our Building Consent regulations that will improve operational efficiencies and reduce lifecycle carbon emissions from New Zealand’s building stock.

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The Benefits of Constructing More Timber Buildings in New Zealand

17/08/2022

This presentation gives a big-picture overview of embodied carbon in the New Zealand building construction industry.

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Earth Building Developments in New Zealand

20/07/2022

About 1/3 of the world’s population live in highly sustainable forms of earth construction but it needs to be more earthquake resistant and more widely adopted in the developed world along with other low energy, low carbon natural construction such as straw bale.

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A New Ministry of Works to Tackle Climate Change and Housing

15/12/2021

The shift to a zero carbon economy is a challenge whose depth is difficult to fathom, there is much to be sceptical about in the idea that the energy gained from fossil fuels can be substituted to enable current lifestyles to continue.

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Submission to Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment on the Building for Climate Change Framework

The Benefits of Constructing More Timber Buildings in New Zealand

Earth Building Developments in New Zealand

A New Ministry of Works to Tackle Climate Change and Housing

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