Louise Bullen

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Research Report

SR479 Embodied carbon of New Zealand office and residential building services

This study focuses on the embodied carbon contribution that building services can make to the carbon footprint of New Zealand residential and office buildings.
  • Embodied carbon
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SR478 Housing stock strategies responding to New Zealand’s 2050 carbon target

This study investigates three possible future scenarios to better understand the potential to reduce New Zealand’s carbon contributions from dwellings. The scenarios represent an increasingly proactive response to the climate...
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ER63 Carbon budget of New Zealand Buildings: A sensitivity Assessment

This sensitivity assessment is undertaken to identify priorities for further study or data improvements in order to support the transformation of the New Zealand built environment to one that is...
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Sustainability

Low impact (net carbon zero) buildings
Low impact buildings: how to shift to life-cycle net-zero impact buildings to address depletion rates of non-renewable resources, climate change, and other environmental impacts of the construction sector.
Start date:  31 Oct 2017
Completed on  28 Mar 2024
Sustainability

Housing stock strategies for meeting NZ’s 2050 carbon target
New Zealand has committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Building and Construction Sector currently accounts for around 20% of our carbon emissions through the energy and materials...
Start date:  17 Dec 2020
Completed on  31 Mar 2023
Sustainability

Carbon budget-model sensitivity
A carbon budget is the amount of greenhouse gas emissions allowed over a period of time to keep within a global temperature rise threshold. A carbon budget captures the finite...
Start date:  8 Jun 2020
Completed on  16 Aug 2021