BRANZ energy and environmental expertise includes experience in the areas of building resource conservation, environmental impact analysis, and energy efficiency in buildings, including building code and standards development and application.

Areas of expertise

• Designing for the sun (passive solar design)
• Design practice to reduce energy use for space heating, appliance usage and water heating
• Energy audits for homes
• Energy and environment training and education
• Heat flow analysis (computer modelling) through the building envelope
• Calculations for building code compliance and building design
• Analysis of appliance load patterns and energy consumption
• Energy use surveys
• Experience in the design and application of energy audit and design tools
• Recommendations and advice on how to use energy more efficiently in both residential and commercial buildings
• Extensive field experience in the measurement and analysis of energy flows in housing and commercial buildings
• Construction and demolition waste mitigation
• Life cycle analysis of building materials and components
• The effect of climate change in the building industry
• Environmental impact assessment tools for domestic and commercial buildings.

Links

• ALF (Annual Loss Factor)
• Homestar^TM
• HEEP (Household Energy End-use Project)
• Sustainable Construction

For more information, contact branz@branz.co.nz.