Research & funding

Research & funding

From funding information to supporting or collaborating on BRANZ research, we’ll help you find the right next step.
From funding information to supporting or collaborating on BRANZ research, we’ll help you find the right next step.

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Our research capabilities

Deep expertise delivering trusted, evidence‑based building research.

Building Research Levy funding

We invest the Building Research Levy in contestable funding to meet the sector’s priorities.
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Apply for research funding

Funding industry‑focused research tackling priority building challenges with practical outcomes.

Apply for a research scholarship

Supporting the next generation of building researchers.

Our latest research projects...

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Our newly funded projects
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Open-source housing: Granny Flat

Deliver granny flat designs to reduce costs and support intergenerational living.

Closing the gap between design and reality for healthier homes

Next‑gen modelling and compliance pathways for healthier, drier, affordable NZ homes.
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RESCUE: Resilience via evaluation, science, climate understanding & engineering

Create tools and guidance to support resilient building in hazard-prone areas.
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Making housing affordable - Tackling the current and future maintenance crisis 

Measuring the cost of delayed home maintenance & deliver practical tools for safer, affordable homes
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Diverse dwellings: Understanding NZ's changing housing landscape

Updated housing data to support better planning, affordability, and quality in Aotearoa.

Research capabilities

Making our homes healthier

One of our key areas of expertise is creating healthy homes to support healthier people. Our research focuses on indoor conditions to improve health, wellbeing and housing performance across Aotearoa New Zealand, underpinned by flagship studies like HEEP2, which provides robust evidence on how homes perform and how they can be improved.

Healthy homes research is just one area of expertise.

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Jarred Butler
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Jarred Butler - recipient of a BRANZ scholarship.

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I am very grateful to BRANZ and the people who I’ve had the pleasure of working with.
Armano Papageorge
Past BRANZ scholar, Victoria University of Wellington.