Retrofit for the future – Eco Design Advisor Conference – Christchurch 2024
Retrofit for the future
WHY DEEP RETROFIT?
Threading it all together | Andrew Eagles – Chief Executive NZGBC
Andrew is a qualified economist with more than fourteen years’ experience in the built environment. Working for consultancies, associations, government and built environment charities, he has a wealth of knowledge in housing, market mechanism, advocacy and the construction supply chain.
Andrew joined the New Zealand Green Building Council in September 2016 as Chief Executive. The NZGBC is the country’s leading not-for-profit for the sustainable built environment. As well as exemplary research, the NZGBC oversees Homestar and Green Star the award winning certifications for New Zealand homes and buildings, and NABERSNZ, the tool for confirming performance of offices in use.
Overseas programmes for improving the operational carbon
NZGBC Meeting Our 2030 Emissions Targets Report
Getting indoor temperature “Just Right” with insulation and deep-retrofit health to reduce energy hardship | Kim O’Sullivan – He Kāinga Oranga
Dr Kimberley O’Sullivan is a Rutherford Discovery Fellow for her research programme HOusing, energy, and MEntal health and wellbeing (HOME) and is part of He Kāinga Oranga/ Housing and Health research group at the University of Otago. Kimberley’s research explores the relationships between energy poverty, indoor temperature and thermal comfort, energy efficiency of housing and buildings, and impacts on health. Her work is focussed on understanding experiences of energy poverty among different risk groups (including prepay consumers), and evaluating the health impacts of community-, iwi-, and government-led housing and energy hardship interventions.
Healthy Homes Initiative: Three year outcomes evaluation
Child and youth fuel poverty: assessing the known and unknown
The cost of achieving healthy temperatures in children’s bedrooms: Evidence from New Zealand
Overseas retrofit programmes, lessons for New Zealand, and the econoimic impacts | Nick Robertson – BERL
Nick is an economist who works with central and local government, industry groups, private companies, and not for profits, to provide a credible evidence base and analysis to support decision-making. Nick specialises in taking economics beyond the traditional numbers to consider the wider impacts and outcomes of interventions. Nick’s career has seen him cover a broad variety of topics, often at the same time, including assessing the potential benefits of low emission homes and retrofits, economic development in some of the most deprived communities in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and evaluating the impacts of infrastructure and investment projects.
Electricity Demand and Generation Scenarios: Results summary July 2024 (mbie.govt.nz)
SEAI-Retrofit-Full-Year-Report-2023
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS
Warm roofs, how does the performance stack up? | Steve McNeil – BRANZ
Steve’s research covers ventilation, airtightness, moisture issues and indoor air quality of New Zealand homes.
Stephen is has worked closely with the Fraunhofer Institute of Building Physics over a number of years, contributing to the development to the WUFI suites of software, and has extensively benchmarked it against experiments in BRANZ experimental buildings – with a particular focus on air carried moisture. His current interests lie in improving the building stock in NZ to reduce the burden on the health system, while mitigating the risk of unintended consequences in terms of moisture and overheating. He is a regular contributor to BRANZ Build Magazine, and author of a number of scientific publications in international journals and conferences.
Build-199-47-Feature-Retrofitting-Ventilation-Building-Retrofit-Project.pdf (buildmagazine.org.nz)
Optimal ventilation? | BRANZ Build (buildmagazine.org.nz)
BU581-Residential-mechanical-ventilation-systems.pdf (d39d3mj7qio96p.cloudfront.net)
The ParkaWrap in Practice | Jon Davies – Pro Clima
Jon recently rejoined Proclima after a 4 year stint with Oculus Architectural Engineering where he was on the design team for Te Mātāwai (139 Greys Ave, Auckland) 276 externally insulated apartments. He also developed an IANZ accredited test laboratory and made good use of it during covid lockdowns, completing a Master of Architecture investigating external insulation over existing buildings.
(PDF) Effect of ancient Inuit fur parka ruffs on facial heat transfer (researchgate.net)
The Parka Wrap – Jon (ara-parkawrap.info)
Kāinga Ora – Building a Programme to Retrofit – in action, at scale | Matt Maule – Kainga Ora
Matthew is the Programme Director of the capital refurbishment programmes at Kāinga Ora. These programmes include the upgrade and reset of existing state housing to meet or exceed current code.
Matthew’s tenure at Kāinga Ora has seen him work to progress the Kāinga Ora Retrofit programme from an initial pilot stage with an annual turnover of fewer than 70 projects locally to over 850 projects in every region nationally. As well, Matthew has helped to evolve maintenance projects in multi-unit complexes into more comprehensive refurbishments to improve the performance and condition of these buildings for the occupants.
Matthew has both a degree in Arts and in Building Science and is interested in the production of programme outcomes that satisfy a range of benefits, including economic, social, environmental, and cultural to be able to build strategic and sustainable ways of working that also work for the communities they are delivered in.
WHAT’S STOPPING DEEP RETROFIT?
Bringing EnerPHit to town | Damien McGill – The Healthy Home Cooperation
The Healthy Home Cooperation – Engineering happy healthy homes for people and planet.
It’s become my mission to change the way we design, build and renovate homes in Aotearoa. Housing is a health issue. We need to improve our housing to improve our collective health and passive homes are a wonderful way to do this.
As a Certified Passive House Consultant with over 25 years of engineering experience and a passion for property, I’m uniquely placed to provide the particular skills needed, to help house the transformational change required in the residential construction industry.
Damien is the Passive House Institute NZ, Canterbury Chapter Lead.
Personalised Advice: Enabling the Enablers | Sally Blackwell – Beacon Pathway
Sally has 20 years’ experience leading research, policy and strategy projects in the public and not-for-profit sectors – particularly across the areas of Energy Efficiency, Environment and Housing. She has developed policy and led energy efficiency programmes in central government, led projects in the community sector including the Home Energy Advice Centre project (2008), and was the first Executive Officer of Community Energy Network. She was also part of the team that recognised a need and developed the first Home Performance Advisor training module in 2012. Sally has a Masters in Environmental Studies from Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington and was a PhD student in the Energy Cultures team. She is passionate about translating research and best practice into policy and programmes to improve the way new and existing homes perform. Her preferred way of working is collaboratively, to ensure that technical, political, and practical matters inform the approach.
Mapping the consumer landscape
WarrenFoulds_Better-energy-advice_published.pdf (dl.ac.uk)
The costs and benefits of deep retrofit – How does it stack up for dollars and carbon? | Gareth Gretton – EECA
Gareth Gretton is a Lead Advisor in the Research, Evaluation, and Insights team at EECA. His work includes residential buildings, solar energy, and the TIMES-NZ energy system model. He has worked as a mechanical building services engineer, has taught engineering within the polytech and university sectors, and has completed post-graduate research on energy generation technologies, among other things.
WHERE HAVE WE BEEN AND WHERE TO NEXT?
The Electrification of Everything | Mike Casey
Mike is an orchardist in Central Otago who believes he has created the world’s first fully electric farm. He has electrified 21 machines on his farm and in his home and powers them through New Zealand’s national grid, as well as through his on-farm renewable system.
Mike is the CEO of Rewiring Aotearoa, a New Zealand charity dedicated to electrifying millions of fossil fuel machines in New Zealand as fast as possible. Why? It’s a Win-Win. Everyone saves money, and everyone saves emissions.
Electric Homes Report | Rewiring Aotearoa
The Electrification Opportunity Report | Rewiring Aotearoa
Post quake Broad Oaks super-reno | Bob Burnett
Bob Burnett has over 35 years of experience in architecture and has been an early adopter, advocate and educator of high-performance sustainable design and construction techniques for over two decades. His focus is on advancing design education, reducing the effect of poor housing on the environment and improving the health of communities whilst also creating beautiful, liveable, loveable, light-filled spaces. Bob’s work regularly receives awards, and he was awarded a Sustainability Superstar Award at the Sustainable Business Network Awards. He founded the Superhome Movement Charitable Trust in 2015 and co-founded the Quakestar rating system following the Canterbury earthquakes.
Household Energy End-use Project 2: Update and early insights | Vicki White – BRANZ
Vicki White is a Senior Research Scientist at BRANZ (Building Research Association of New Zealand). She is an experienced social scientist with proficiency in both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Vicki’s expertise includes delivering and analysing national housing surveys, including the BRANZ House Condition Survey and Household Energy End-use Project 2 (HEEP2). Prior to coming to Aotearoa New Zealand, Vicki was a Research Project Manager at the Centre for Sustainable Energy, in Bristol, England. Her UK research focused on modelling and understanding the impacts of energy and climate change policies on consumers.