Resources
Last updated: 9 February 2023
MBIE's Climate Change Work Programme has a range of resources to support more informed decisions to achieve energy efficient, low carbon and resilient buildings.
Glossary
Some of the terminology and key concepts are difficult to define and apply to building and building work. To help with this, a glossary is now available. It contains the top terms you need to know to understand the impact of the building sector on climate change.
Download a print version of the glossary in A3 size [PDF 314KB]
Industry initiatives
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Emissions reduction
Smart steps to lowering emissions
Resources and tools to help lower emissions and make your home or building more resilient to climate change.
Research
MBIE has commissioned research to support the Climate Change Work Programme and how we can work with the sector to reduce emissions and increase the climate resilience of the built environment in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Cost-neutral, low-carbon residential construction (Nov 2022) – this demonstrates that reductions of up to 12% of embodied carbon is achievable at no additional cost, and recommends that increasing accessibility of credible data and easy-to-use tools will make it easier to optimise the carbon impacts of construction without adding cost.
Cost-neutral, low carbon residential construction [PDF 7.8MB]
Delivering low-carbon buildings as the default (March 2023) – this explores group home builders’ attitudes, motivators, barriers and potential opportunities for low carbon buildings.
GHB final report: Delivering low-carbon buildings as the default [PDF 2.1MB]
Modelling the role of time in carbon footprints for building elements: testing different methodologies (April 2024) – this research project applies a dynamic life cycle assessment approach to a typical New Zealand house, to improve understanding of the impact of embodied carbon emissions over time in a New Zealand context.
Embodied Carbon impacts of options for seismically deficient existing buildings (August 2024) – this study quantifies the embodied carbon savings from reusing rather than demolishing two typical EPB existing building typologies.
<<pdf: final report pending>>