New Zealand’s National Embodied Carbon Data Repository is supporting the industry to make more informed, environmentally responsible decisions when selecting materials and designing buildings.
In this bewildering era marked by significant global uncertainty – political, economic and social – BRANZ CEO Claire Falck believes the need to rely on accurate data has never been more critical for the building and construction sector.
The New Zealand Institute of Building and the BIMinNZ Steering Group are working with experts on a digital building information modelling (BIM) guidance project called DigiGuide. Updating the BIM Handbook...
Collecting and analysing historical and real-time data is valuable in predicting climate resilience, enabling project stakeholders to make the right decisions.
This is the first report presenting findings from a national housing assessment survey undertaken in 2018/19. It presents a high-level overview of results, with national estimates and by tenure.
This report presents the results of the 13th annual New House Owners’ Satisfaction Survey. The survey uses a sample of New Zealand’s housing consents to understand how new house owners...
This report presents the results of our New House Owners’ Satisfaction Survey 2011. The data was obtained through surveying new homeowners on the performance of their builder. The purpose of...
This report comprises a series of comparisons between experimental data and model predictions using the B-RISK software.The report does not draw detailed conclusions about the acceptability or otherwise of the...
This report addresses the questions around latent or untapped impact potential of the BRANZ document Multi-storey light timber-framed buildings in New Zealand – engineering design published in 2019 for structural...
Product Description This survey summarises the results of on-site inspections of the physical condition of 465 houses during 1998 and 1999. The houses were chosen at random from the three...
Product Description This report summarises the results of on-site inspections of the physical condition of over 400 houses in 1993/94. The houses were chosen at random in the three main...
This is the 11th in a series of reports on the New House Owners’ Satisfaction Survey. The data that makes up this report was obtained through surveying new house owners...
This is the 10th in a series of reports on the New House Owners’ Satisfaction Survey. The data that makes up this report was obtained through surveying new house owners...
Product Description This review examines contemporary behaviour change models and their genealogical roots. The goal is to locate influential behavioural change models and identify literature demonstrating and/or scaffolding onto their...
The New House Owners’ Satisfaction Survey aims to find out from the owner of the new house how they thought their builder performed and how they perceived the quality of...
Official data on the characteristics of new housing is very limited. Building consents data held by Statistics New Zealand gives numbers by building type, value and floor area, aggregated into...
Product Description This report presents the results of the seventh annual New House Owners’ Satisfaction Survey. The survey looks at how new house owners rate their builder and how satisfied...
Product Description The aim of the study was to cast light on how stakeholders working with housing policy in New Zealand utilise research and other forms of outputs from building...
This report presents the results of the sixth annual New House Owners’ Satisfaction Survey. The survey looks at how new house owners rate their builder and how satisfied they are...
Official data on the characteristics of new housing is very limited. Building consents data held by Statistics New Zealand gives numbers by building type, value and floor area, aggregated into...
This report presents the results of the fifth annual New House Owners’ Satisfaction Survey. The survey looks at how new house owners rate their builder and how satisfied they are...
This is the second of two reports on the inspection of new houses. The aim of the inspections is to ascertain the quality of construction, problem areas for the builder...
Official data on the characteristics of non-residential buildings is limited. Building consents data held by Statistics New Zealand gives numbers by building type, value and floor area, aggregated into territorial...
The amount of official data available on the characteristics of new housing is very limited. Building consents data held by Statistics New Zealand provides information on building type, value and...
This report compares the condition of rental and owner-occupied houses surveyed in the 2010 BRANZ House Condition Survey.Approximately 500 stand-alone, townhouse or terraced houses/units were inspected throughout New Zealand, and...
This study looked at how water is used in New Zealand homes. It involved participation from councils and water supply authorities from around the country, and a widespread 66-household sample...
This report is for any person or organisation interested in shifting the public conversation about better housing in Aotearoa New Zealand.Understand how people in Aotearoa New Zealand think and reason...
This report describes the theory and equations currently used in the model as at v2021.1, and presents benchmarking and char depth validation information.
Census data has in the past formed the foundation for our understanding of the interrelationship between families, households and housing market outcomes for our communities. The objective of this research...
This report summarises the currently available data sources in Aotearoa New Zealand to answer the question: Is there sufficient housing supply, and is it of sufficient quality, for all residents...
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...
This report explores the link between type and nature of residential building practitioners and quality issues as expressed by information collected during the building consent process.The main intended outcome of...
This report outlines the specifications of a low-cost indoor environmental data logging unit for office workstations. The unit collects temperatures (air and radiant), lighting levels (global and directional), relative humidity...
Product Description This report presents the results of the 12th annual New House Owners’ Satisfaction Survey. The survey looked at how new house owners rated their builder and how satisfied...
