Toni Kennerley

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Research Report

SR493 Building for wellbeing - a review of the literature

This report presents an examination of literature surrounding the relationship between occupant wellbeing and the built environment. This review aims to understand how wellbeing is defined, the current policy framework...
  • Resillience & wellbeing
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Research Report

SR408 Medium-density housing: Can we build it?

Product Description New Zealand is facing significant housing pressure, and medium-density housing (MDH) is set to be an important part of the solution. This study investigated who in the building...
  • Medium density housing
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Research Report

SR435 Creating improved housing outcomes: Liveable medium-density housing summary report

Product Description Medium-density housing (MDH) is an increasingly common housing typology as New Zealand’s towns and cities respond to growth challenges, yet little is known about the success or otherwise...
  • Medium density housing
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Research Report

SR392 Leveraging expertise to deliver medium-density housing

Product Description A number of stakeholders are involved in the delivery of medium-density housing (MDH) in New Zealand. This report identifies who of these stakeholders can be considered to be...
  • Medium density housing
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SR445 Procuring for quality

This report explores industry perspectives on procurement and how procurement methods impact on the construction quality of a building. It discusses how client knowledge levels, the adversarial relationship caused by...
  • Procurement & suppliers
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Research Report

ER84 Regional Construction and Demolition Waste

This research sought to understand if it is currently possible to identify the volume and composition of construction and demolition waste on a regional basis across New Zealand; what stakeholders...
  • Waste management
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ER36 Planning barriers for prefabricated housing

This research report focuses on resource consent barriers - specifically, on district plans and the provisions within them that may require resource consent for prefabricated housing, over and above any...
  • Data led decisions
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Affordability

Eliminating Quality Issues (EQI): Procurement and quality
EQI Procurement: This project builds on earlier BRANZ work which covered the effect of procurement changes on cost control, looking more broadly at how changing procurement practices can lead to...
Start date:  22 Nov 2017
Completed on  29 May 2020
Affordability

Medium Density Housing (MDH): Post occupancy evaluations
This work uses Post Occupancy Evaluations to review actual building performance against earlier design predictions and analyses .
Start date:  3 Dec 2018
Completed on  31 Mar 2021
Affordability

Leveraging expertise to deliver medium-density housing
This project aimed to identify and work with leading experts currently delivering exemplary medium-density housing (MDH). It encouraged adoption of the processes used on successful MDH projects. It set out...
Start date:  3 Apr 2017
Completed on  30 Mar 2018